5th January 2010 Archive

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Korean bank dumps Unix boxen for mainframes

Seoul of a new machine

BC Card, the largest credit card processor in South Korea, is dumping its Unix servers, made by Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, and moving its processing applications to mainframes made by IBM. No, time is not moving backwards on the Korean Peninsula. But BC Card, which is a coalition of 11 South Korean banks that …

Enterprise 5 Jan 06:02
Starting positions for next decade's external storage race

Comment EMC rises as Sun sets

EMC enjoys nearly 24 per cent of the external disk storage market, and has almost twice the revenue share of IBM, its nearest competitor. After HP, every other supplier is trailing EMC with single digit percentage shares. The chart below shows the 2010 starting positions for the top seven suppliers. It shows EMC gaining share …

Enterprise 5 Jan 07:02
Chip sales grew (for real) in November

SIA says recession is MIA

If the statistics collected and massaged by the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) are any guide, it looks like the recession is over. Today, the SIA released its report for chip sales in November and said that revenues hit $22.6bn for the month, which is 8.5 per cent more than the sales level set a year ago ($20.9bn). …

PC Builder 5 Jan 07:02
Western Digital goes cartoon crazy

Ladies seemingly in short supply in the storage world

Meet Brent, Gus and Blake - WD's cartoon personifications of its blue, green and black disk drives. We're told by WD's media partner, MediaFreaks, a Singapore-based animation agency, that Brent represents the Blue hard drive which is built for reliability and steadiness for everyday computing. Gus represents the Green hard …

IT Channel 5 Jan 11:04
HDS hails new high-end storage

Box fresh USP-V

Hitachi Data Systems has confirmed it has a next-generation high-end storage product coming. The current high-end storage array is the USP-V, standing for Universal Storage Processor-Virtual. Hu Yoshida, HDS' high profile blogger and chief technology officer (CTO), mentions it in his latest blog, saying: "The USP V can start …

Enterprise 5 Jan 11:38
IBM joyfully outs Core i3 chips in entry servers

Can't help spreading the good news

As the chip maker said it would back in mid-December, Intel will shortly round out its Core i3, i5, and i7 lines of mobile and desktop processors. To this end, the 32 nanometer "Arrandale" laptop and "Clarkdale" desktop processors make their debut this Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show 2010 in Las Vegas. But some PC …

Enterprise 5 Jan 17:16
Microsoft undercuts planned Office 2010 retail price

Updated Click/install beats shop/unwrap

Activating a pre-installed copy of Office 2010 on a new PC will save you almost a third off the price of buying an off-the-shelf copy of the planned suite. On Tuesday, Microsoft announced pricing for a set of planned key cards, announced in October, that will be between 20 per cent and 30 per cent cheaper than the company's …

Software & Security 5 Jan 20:29
Ex-server maker Verari auctions what's left of self

'Excellent business opportunity'

If you always wanted to own your own server company and compete against the tier one players who will want to crush you like a mosquito feasting on a tiny drop of their blood, here's your chance. Ex-server maker Verari Systems, which had a layoff and restructuring on December 11 is selling off its assets in an auction. If you …

Enterprise 5 Jan 21:05
Italians threaten suit over Windows pre-install

Want money back after Microsoft force-feed

An Italian consumer rights group plans to slap Microsoft with a class-action lawsuit this week seeking compensation on behalf of people forced to buy Windows pre-installed on new computers. The ADUC, which specializes in public interests related to TV, internet, and telephone, said it would file the lawsuit at a court in …

PC Builder 5 Jan 22:51