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16th December 2009 Archive

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  • Mystery co. sues Apple, IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle...

    'Software installation? We own it!'

    An east-Texas company, BetaNet LLC, has filed a patent-infringement suit against Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, IBM, SAP, and a dozen other companies. The patent in question, "Secure system for activating personal computer software at remote locations," describes in sweeping terms a remote software installation and …

    Software & Security 16 Dec 00:18

  • Stratus puts $50K where its fault tolerant mouth is

    Cash for crashes

    Server virtualization and the live migration of virtual machines across a network of servers and storage has allowed companies like VMware and Citrix Systems to bully their way into the high availability server market. And Stratus Technologies, which makes mirrored, fault-tolerant x64 boxes, is fighting back against what it sees …

    Enterprise 16 Dec 07:02

  • Citrix adds failover to Hyper-V partitions

    Virtual high availability real cheap

    Citrix has delivered a key feature of the Essentials stack of management tools for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor for Windows platforms and pledged to bring the high availability tool, called StorageLink Site Recovery, to its own XenServer hypervisor next year. You heard that right. Citrix is getting its virtual machine …

    Enterprise 16 Dec 08:02

  • Adobe profit, sales fall in Q4

    Blames buy-shy customers, Omniture acquisition

    Adobe Systems saw profit and sales drop in its fourth quarter, but despite that, the firm proclaimed that customer demand was set to blossom in 2010. The company reported (PDF) a decline in sales yesterday, after customers shied away from upgrading their copies of Acrobat, Flash and Photoshop apps. In Q4 it reeled in revenue …

    Software & Security 16 Dec 11:48

  • Bendy flash memory raises prospect of flexible displays

    Altered images

    Flexible plastic computer displays have come closer as a result of a successful organic flash memory project led by University of Tokyo researchers. Flexible flash memory could be used in other relatively large area applications, such as pressure sensors, actuators and electric ink book readers. This contrasts with NAND or NOR …

    Enterprise 16 Dec 12:05

  • EMC DPA adds replication monitoring

    By servers and its arrays

    EMC has extended the data protection coverage of its DPA product by giving it the ability to monitor replication operations by servers and some EMC storage arrays. DPA, Data Protection Advisor, is the name for the technology obtained by EMC when it bought WySDM in April last year. The idea is to monitor and advise on as many …

    Enterprise 16 Dec 13:56

  • Amazon adds media streaming to S3 storage cloud

    Back-ending Flash media

    Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing subsidiary of online retailer Amazon, today has put a media serving and caching front end on its Simple Storage Service (S3) storage cloud that lets it act as a distributed (as in globally) media server to feed streaming content on the cheap. The streaming media service is called …

    Enterprise 16 Dec 15:11

  • Virgin coughs up digital tech support for clueless users

    Bedwetters of the world unite

    Virgin Group has launched a tech help service that will compete with the likes of DSGi's Tech Guys in the UK. Virgin Digital Help is the company's first new UK consumer biz in three years. It was created in partnership with outsourcing outfit Sutherland Global Services, said Virgin. The service is pitched at clueless Blighty …

    IT Channel 16 Dec 16:14

  • IBM munches BPM maven Lombardi

    Borging for IT

    IBM has acquired privately held business process management software niche player Lombardi, an outfit based in Austin, Texas. IBM says that its middleware stack needed some BPM tools that allowed for people and the departments they work in to be wrapped in the loving embrace of workflow software like ERP and content management …

    Software & Security 16 Dec 17:23

  • IBM Rational adds new ties for devs

    System-on-a-chip sim

    IBM has introduced a fresh batch of updates and software to their portfolio made to help software developers and systems engineers integrate different business processes into its Rational platform. The rollout includes updates to IBM Rational System Architect, DOORS Web Access and Rhapsody, as well as making Rational Software …

    Software & Security 16 Dec 20:23

  • Dell crunches numbers on Perot deal

    What to buy next?

    In an effort to get Wall Street excited about the company again, Dell has committed to extract $4bn in costs from its operations between 2009 and 2011. That gets a bit tricky if Dell keeps acquiring companies, and it had to keep acquiring if it's gonna dig itself out of it commodity hardware corner, a place where a slick and …

    IT Channel 16 Dec 22:52

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