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10th November 2009 Archive

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  • Microsoft and Seagate hunker down in EVault

    Cloudy for i365 days

    Microsoft is going to use Seagate software and its EVault cloud service to take on Symantec's backup products in heterogeneous Windows shops. Data Protection Manager 2010 will use Seagate's i365 software to bring non-Windows server environments into the Windows backup and recovery fold, and its EVault service to add cloud …

    Enterprise 10 Nov 06:02

  • Snow Leopard redumps Intel's Atom

    Zaps data-munching bug

    Now that Apple has released the final version of Mac OS 10.6.2 Snow Leopard into the wild, it appears that the shipping version does not support Intel's Atom processor after all. But according to Apple, it does fix the home-directory-eating Snow Leopard bug that has plagued many a fanboi in recent months. In recent days, …

    Software & Security 10 Nov 06:02

  • PMR heads for areal density limit

    Industry dithers over what's next

    Current perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) for hard drives is going to reach its areal density limit, and it looks like the industry has not yet decided on which candidate technology is going to replace it. PMR reaches its limit when the magnetised area is so small its north or south pole state can be flipped by random …

    Enterprise 10 Nov 07:02

  • HP scores SMB storage hat-trick

    Disk, DAT and the other

    HP is improving its small and medium business data protection with better snapshot, virtual tape library and physical tape products. Its LeftHand Networks P4000 small/medium business (SMB) storage area network (SAN) products will get application-integrated snapshots. The array software uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services ( …

    Enterprise 10 Nov 10:14

  • MS forensics tool leaks onto the web

    COFEE spill creates nasty mess

    Microsoft's point-and-click "computer forensics for cops" tool has leaked onto the web. COFEE (Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor) is designed to allow law enforcement officers to collect digital evidence from a suspect's PC without requiring any particular expertise. Using the technology - which recovers a list of …

    Software & Security 10 Nov 11:55

  • IBM's cool zero-emission data centre idea

    Not a whiff of CO2 - but still whiffs of hype

    IBM says it is working towards the introduction of technology to enable zero-emission data centres, which will give out not a single whiff of CO2. The claims were made by Bruno Michel of IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory at LISA '09, the Large Installation System Administration Conference, which happened to be in Zurich. …

    Enterprise 10 Nov 12:24

  • Silverlight dances with Facebook wolves

    Microsoft books dev toolkit seat in Web 2.0 pantomime

    Microsoft continues to plead with developers to tinker with Silverlight, the software giant’s ginger stepchild rival to Adobe’s Flash, by slotting the tech into Facebook. Coders can now get their mitts on a dev kit that allows them to create Facebook apps in Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and other MS tech …

    Software & Security 10 Nov 12:26

  • Spectra launches T-Finity, plans beyond

    Aims to outshine Sun

    SpectraLogic is claiming the tape library top slot with its 30,000-plus slot T-Finity library, leaving IBM, Quantum, and Sun StorageTek in the dust. The T-Finity is designed for use in large enterprise IT, high performance computing (HPC), media/entertainment and the federal market, where users need to archive high volume, …

    Enterprise 10 Nov 13:05

  • HP, Dell punters furious over Windows 7 upgrade delays

    'Step up to the plate', people

    Some Hewlett-Packard and Dell customers are up in arms about delays to the Windows 7 upgrades promised to punters who purchased PCs from the hardware vendors earlier this year. Many computer makers hoped to keep sales ticking over ahead of the arrival of Windows 7 by promising customers an upgrade to the Vista successor once …

    Software & Security 10 Nov 13:10

  • Cisco keeps schtum on big iron plans

    Comment More SMP scale and Opterons required

    There is no question that networking giant Cisco Systems wants to be a player in the server racket, and its recent Acadia partnership with EMC to sell preconfigured Vblock setups, complete with Cisco blade servers and networking, VMware server virtualization, and EMC storage and system management tools, drives the message home. …

    Enterprise 10 Nov 16:14

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