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14th December 2009 Archive

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  • Adaptec appoints new sales boss

    Board struggles through yet more upheaval

    Adaptec has replaced its dismissed world-wide sales VP John Noellert by promoting Jared Peters. Peters is a 16-year Adaptec veteran, and was the VP for international sales. This is the first executive-level appointment made by Adaptec since Steel Partners took control of its board a few weeks ago. At that time, Adaptec's CEO …

    Enterprise 14 Dec 10:13

  • Emulex gets short-lived FCoE design win

    Verari certifies - then 'crashes'

    Emulex has finally got its first public Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) design win, from Verari, which promptly appeared to fall over on Friday. FCoE sends and receives Fibre Channel storage data traffic over Ethernet, instead of using Fibre Channel wires and switches. For its adoption it relies on a loss-less and low- …

    Enterprise 14 Dec 10:26

  • Western Digital gears up for mighty formatting

    Ten per cent space boost soon come

    WD and other disk drive manufacturers are increasing disk sector size eightfold to prepare for 2TB-plus capacity drives. Current hard disk drives have a 512 byte data sector sector size and have had for up to 30 years. Each sector has a sync/DAM header and an ECC (error checking and control) trailer followed by an inter-sector …

    Enterprise 14 Dec 10:43

  • Exchange 2010 dumps single instance storage

    Say hello again to attachment duplication

    Microsoft added single instance storage (SIS) to Exchange 2005 and has now removed it from Exchange 2010, ensuring that duplicated applications will be stored in all their redundant, space-gobbling glory on Exchange server's disks. Why has Microsoft made this apparently retrograde step? A Microsoft Social Technet entry reads …

    Enterprise 14 Dec 11:01

  • IBM chums with Swiss to build 3D brain-density processors

    'Without them, IT will gobble entire world power supply'

    Boffins in Switzerland have warned that increasingly powerful computer processors are set to guzzle the entire world electricity supply by the year 2100. They say that only 3D myria-core chips can save the day. Getting on top of Moore's law. "Industry’s data centres already consume as much as 2% of available electricity," …

    Enterprise 14 Dec 11:16

  • Cert snafu leaves Office 2003 locked out of files

    Crocked key conundrum resolved by weekend hotfix

    A cryptographic bug in Microsoft Office 2003 bug left enterprise users locked out of files. The snag involved files protected using Microsoft's Rights Management Service (RMS), a technology for controlling who can access or modify documents. The snafu - which left corporate users in the frustrating position of being unable to …

    Software & Security 14 Dec 11:30

  • Amazon EC2 urges customers to name their price

    Let the little fluffy cloud bidding wars commence

    Amazon Web Services LLC has launched a new auction room-style purchasing package for its EC2 cloud computing rental service. The firm said in a statement today that customers could now use a new option called “Spot Instances” that allows them to bid on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their …

    Enterprise 14 Dec 12:22

  • Oracle defrosts EC concerns over Sun takeover

    Careful what you wish for, Monty. It might just happen...

    The European Commission has welcomed a series of promises made by Oracle about the future of the MySQL database, all of which could signal that the company's planned $7bn takeover of Sun Microsystems may now get the all-clear from regulators. "Today's announcement by Oracle of a series of undertakings to customers, developers …

    Software & Security 14 Dec 13:12

  • Peer 1 setting up Atmos cloud storage

    Hundreds of terabytes

    Hundreds of terabytes of EMC's Atmos storage are going to be used by Peer 1, a North American hosting company, in a cloud storage service. Atmos is EMC's dedicated storage platform for storage in the cloud as opposed to direct-attach storage (DAS), network-attached storage (NAS), and storage area network (SAN) arrays. Peer 1 …

    Enterprise 14 Dec 14:17

  • German storage specialist punts luxury external hard drives

    Not at all blingy, thank goodness

    If you're looking for an external hard drive that offers something more than the usual half-a-terabyte of storage in a grey plastic case, Germany's Brinell believes it has what you're after. You see, the Understated and Elegant series of 1.8in Purestorage XS and 2.5in Purestorage 2 drives are wrapped in, respectively, Macassar …

    reghardware 14 Dec 14:29

  • Motorola joins industry of shopkeepers

    Shop4Apps slips out onto the net

    Motorola's own Android application store has slipped out onto the net. Although it was hastily removed, it proves that the company still has aspirations to play with the big boys. Shop4Apps was spotted by Android and Me, who managed to grab several screen-shots before Motorola pulled the store from public view. It was enough …

    Software & Security 14 Dec 15:55

  • Verari Systems staff join alumni network amidst 'restructure'

    Speculation abounds over firm's future

    Verari Systems is undergoing a "restructure" that has prompted speculation the boutique server maker has shut up shop and led workers to set up an alumni network. "Currently, we are working on a communication statement to release during our restructure," Mike LaPan, director of marketing and communications, explained in an …

    Enterprise 14 Dec 16:24

  • Data Robotics names new CEO

    Drobo maker co-founder replaced

    Data Robotics has hired Tom Buiocchi as its new CEO, replacing founder Geoff Barrall. Data Robotics produces the Drobo products, data robots that provide multi-drive external storage. Almost 100,000 Drobos have been sold, and founder Geoff Barral has been its CEO since 2005. Tom Buiocchi's last executive business role was at …

    Enterprise 14 Dec 21:20

  • AMD cuts to the core with 'Bulldozer' Opterons

    The future is modular

    IT shops buy current products, but they always have their eyes out one or two generations to assure themselves they aren't buying into a dead-end product. Which is why makers of chips and other components that go into systems as well as system makers themselves are forced to talk about the future when what they really want to do …

    PC Builder 14 Dec 21:45

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