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6th October 2009 Archive

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  • Citrix delivers Swiss Army Knife desktop virtualization

    Everything rides on 2010

    There are a lot ways to serve applications to end users working from PCs and other devices, and Citrix Systems thinks it has come up with the right combination of options: mix everything together and let companies and end users decide. With XenDesktop 4, announced Monday, Citrix is adding 70 new features to its virtual desktop …

    Enterprise 6 Oct 00:04

  • Cisco and Salesforce unite on integrated call centers

    Cloudy operators

    Cisco and Salesforce.com are teaming up to sell a web-hosted call center package to small and medium-sized businesses. The duo's newly minted Customer Interaction Cloud hooks Cisco's call-processing technology into Salesforce's web-based customer relations management platform. Cisco is contributing its Unified Contact Center …

    IT Channel 6 Oct 00:15

  • VMware bakes disaster recovery into vSphere stack

    NFS spice added

    VMware has rounded out its vSphere stack of software around the ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor, with integration of vCenter Site Recovery Manager that started shipping in June. While VMware likes to make it look like the vSphere stack consists of lots of different code, thereby making it worth lots and lots of money, there are …

    Enterprise 6 Oct 00:57

  • Bit-patterned disk media moving closer

    Tiny, insulated bits may be next big thing

    Intevac, a maker of disk drive media manufacturing machines, has revealed that it has received an order for two bit-patterned media production systems from an unnamed client, possibly signalling a recovery in HDD markets and an industry swing towards bit-patterned technology. Current hard disk drives use a perpendicular …

    Enterprise 6 Oct 06:02

  • US court says software is owned, not licensed

    Vanessa Redgrave precedent stops Autodesk acting up

    Software company Autodesk has failed in its bid to prevent the second-hand sale of its software. After a long-running legal battle, it has not been able to convince a court that its software is merely licensed and not sold. Like many software publishers, Autodesk claims that it sells only licences to use its software and that …

    Software & Security 6 Oct 10:09

  • AVG goes toe to toe with MS in consumer security fight

    Update US gets discount, as usual

    AVG is putting an emphasis on increased speed with a revamp of its free and paid for security suites. The latest revamp - AVG 9.0 - boasts 50 per cent faster speed and increased ease of use. Improvements in speed have been achieved by skipping the scan of files already marked as safe in future scans unless the file structure …

    Software & Security 6 Oct 10:28

  • The storage locker room is no place for the little guy

    Comment Niche players feel the pressure

    Blink and you would have missed it: NetApp could be bought, Emulex may be removing its takeover-preventing poison pill and Brocade is apparently for sale. Long-held positions in the storage world are seemingly changing overnight. You could be forgiven for asking what the hell is going on. Five months ago, NetApp's then-CEO was …

    Enterprise 6 Oct 10:29

  • Firefox 3.6 beta set to ship next week

    No shame, no gain

    Mozilla tentatively plans to release the first beta of Firefox 3.6 on 13 October. The open source browser maker is expected to spin out the next iteration of Firefox in November, and next week’s upcoming beta is understood to be the only test build released by Mozilla before 3.6 - codenamed Namoroka and based on Gecko 1.9.2 - …

    Software & Security 6 Oct 12:35

  • Orange picks Milton Keynes for flagship store

    One more reason to relocate

    Orange is about to open a "digital playground" flagship store in Milton Keynes, offering early access to Motorola's DEXT handset and a bouncy floor among other delights. Flagship stores are nothing new, but Orange reckons it's outdone the competition by providing cinema-style seating for the 70-inch screen showing adverts for …

    IT Channel 6 Oct 12:37

  • TDK to haul out HAMR heads

    Next-gen read/write reportedly on way

    Disk head supplier TDK has reportedly demonstrated a next-generation read/write head using heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) for the first time, opening a route to 1Tbit/sq in areal densities and beyond. The background to this TDK announcement at CEATEC 2009, an electronics exhibition in Japan, is that magnetised bits on …

    Enterprise 6 Oct 13:22

  • Double-Take's Backup isn't

    It's ROBO replication, duhhh

    Double-Take is going to show its Backup and Availability products at Storage Expo in the UK next week - but be warned Backup is not back-up, it's replication. The idea Double-Take has is to rebrand its server replication software as Backup when it's used to send branch or remote office (ROBO) data to a central office for …

    Enterprise 6 Oct 13:31

  • Gmail, AOL, Yahoo! all hit by webmail phishing scam

    Update I can see my address from here

    Google has confirmed that Gmail has also been targeted by an "industry-wide phishing scheme" which first hit Hotmail accounts. Yahoo! and AOL are also reportedly affected. Hackers used fake websites to gain the login credentials attached to various webmail accounts. The attack emerged after a list of 30,000 purloined usernames …

    Software & Security 6 Oct 14:44

  • Unisys announces 10-to-1 stock compression

    Never mind the price, feel the width

    Struggling server and services company Unisys said this morning that its board of directors had authorized a reverse stock split for the company's shares, collapsing 10 shares down to one and thereby making its stock appear to be worth ten times as much to the automated trading systems that are trained to get nervous when stock …

    Enterprise 6 Oct 15:04

  • Big Blue storage cloud is bad news for rivals

    IBM offers email, picture and corporate storage

    IBM is going to become a cloud storage provider with an XIV-based Smart Business Storage Cloud and a private cloud Information Archive, unifying disk and tape. Big Blue says it "absolutely plans to have a significant place in the cloud storage space," and this is its marker, emblazoned with XIV and BladeCenter. It …

    Enterprise 6 Oct 15:37

  • Emerson shells out $1.2bn for Avocent

    Locking down data center dough

    Emerson Electric - the conglomerate that has power, process, climate control, and industrial automation businesses as well as appliances and tools that it peddles - will soon have a bunch of hardware and software gadgetry to sell now that it's agreed to pay $1.2bn to buy server management vendor Avocent. Under a deal announced …

    Enterprise 6 Oct 18:23

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