2nd December 2009 Archive

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Midrange, big iron take the Q3 hits

x64 boxes up off the mat

The server market has been declining sharply for the past five quarters, and everyone is looking for a little good news since spending on iron is a bellwether of sorts for the IT industry as a whole. Echoing comments from rival Gartner earlier this week, the box counters at IDC want you to know that the glass is stabilizing …

Enterprise 2 Dec 05:02
Stealth: Dell's other server business

OEM sales beat hyperscale boxes

How could server and PC maker Dell see its revenue decline less than those of its rivals in x64 servers in the third quarter? While Dell is not talking specifics, the company has a number of stealth server units that could be smoothing over some of the rough spots and that it's worth looking at. As El Reg reported Monday, …

Enterprise 2 Dec 06:02
Sage strikes subdued note in near term forecast

Figures get boost from currency movements

Sage software issued a subdued forecast this morning, as it unveiled full year results which showed underlying revenues slipped 4 per cent in the year to September 30. The accounting software firm turned in revenues of £1.44bn for the year, up 11 per cent on the year. Pretax profits were £267.4m, also up 11 per cent. However …

Software & Security 2 Dec 11:28
High Court: Software dev agreement did not transfer copyright

Empty-handed plaintiffs rue woolly contract terms

A company has failed in its attempt to declare itself the owner of software that it paid another company to develop. The High Court has refused to declare that copyright in the software passed to Infection Control Enterprises Ltd (ICEL). A complicated agreement was reached between ICEL and Virrage Industries to develop …

Software & Security 2 Dec 11:28
HDS wants to be the Toyota of storage

Comment Claims that IBM double-counts SVC sales

Hitachi has claimed that it is number one in storage virtualisation and has voiced its intent to be the leading shogun in the storage world. That was the view expressed by Michael Vath, HDS' SVP and EMEA general manager, at the announcement in Milan on December 2 of the strengthened Acer-Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) partnership …

Enterprise 2 Dec 12:34
EMC aggregates Centera clusters

Virtual archive is go

EMC will announce the federation of separate Centera archive store clusters to form a single virtual archive later today. Customers will be able to federate up to 512 Centera nodes giving a 2.04PB raw capacity maximum. The capacity should jump to 4.08TB when 2TB SATA drives get supported, which they presumably will. For …

Enterprise 2 Dec 13:00
HP shows smallest pod in the world, talks HPC

Top500 wins - or losses?

Now that every vendor has a shipping container (pod) computing solution, how do you differentiate your offering? You can’t go bigger and stick to the form factor. But wait a minute: you can go smaller… hmmm... Stalking the floor at SC09, we believed we found Hewlett-Packard pursuing this strategy with its new pod. The …

Enterprise 2 Dec 18:02