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13th January 2010 Archive

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  • Microsoft Office 2007 retailers dodge patent injunction

    Redmond misses update deadline

    Microsoft might have pulled Office 2007 from its online shop but retailers are still selling the suite. Retailers can sell Office 2007 if the copies they purchased were bought before a US-court-mandated deadline of January 11, 2010, Microsoft told The Reg on Tuesday. Upgrade and full copies of Office 2007 were available from …

    Software & Security 13 Jan 01:20

  • Dell's pimps 6gig SAS for DAS

    Faster PowerVaults

    Dell is adopting 6Gbit/s SAS for its PowerVault direct-attached storage (DAS) for servers with drives, enclosures and RAID controllers. It says that this will effectively double the speed of its PowerVault DAS enabling it to keep up with the Nehalem generation of multi-cored and virtualised servers. The increased SAS speed is …

    Enterprise 13 Jan 10:00

  • US faces critical lack of (mad) computer scientists

    Outreach project to teen tech dorks planned

    Famed Pentagon wildcard boffinry outfit DARPA issued a stark message today. According to the military crazytech bureau, America faces a crippling shortage of mad scientists - in particular, of mad computer scientists - in the near future, and only drastic action in the US educational system can rectify this. According to a …

    Enterprise 13 Jan 11:41

  • What Ballmer and Hurd should announce this afternoon

    Hyper-V not Slates please

    Microsoft and HP CEOs are making a big announcement today about a joint agreement and investment in business computing. We don't know what they are announcing, but we know what they should be. Mark Hurd and Steve Ballmer will take questions from invited journos at a teleconference later today abbout the two companies' …

    Enterprise 13 Jan 12:36

  • Seagate CEO rides again

    Pops up as leading light in LED firm

    Ousted Seagate CEO Bill Watkins is back in harness as the CEO for a light-emitting diode (LED) company. The company is Sunnyvale-based Bridgelux, which supplies and develops solid state lighting products for direct use and for OEMs to incorporate into their own lighting products. LED lighting technology is being pushed as more …

    Enterprise 13 Jan 14:38

  • Facebook snuggles with McAfee in security spree

    Symantec unlikely to like updated relationship status

    Facebook has partnered with McAfee to offer users of the social networking site a free six-month subscription to its security software. The year-long exclusive deal, announced Wednesday, also involves a special (unspecified) discount for McAfee's Internet Security Suite software once the six months trial is over. Facebook and …

    Software & Security 13 Jan 15:20

  • Cisco taps Avnet to peddle 'California' servers

    Up next, Arrow Electronics?

    This is one that you could have seen coming a million miles away. With only two master resellers in the global server racket, it was only a matter of time before either Arrow Electronics or Avnet started distributing the "California" Unified Computing System converged blade servers from Cisco Systems. Avnet has announced that …

    Enterprise 13 Jan 16:07

  • Sun marries Hadoop to Grid Engine

    DIY Googleplex

    Sun Microsystems may be in a PR muzzle until sugar daddy Oracle gets permission to buy it from European antitrust regulators, but the coders who maintain Sun's myriad software products are still banging away on their keyboards in an effort to not only look useful to keep their jobs, but be useful. They just can't engage the IT …

    Enterprise 13 Jan 16:38

  • HP, Microsoft form $250m IT tag team

    Frontline battle with Sunacle, CiscoEMCVMware

    With Cisco Systems, EMC, and VMware teaming up to sell integrated IT stacks, Oracle buying Sun Microsystems to create its own integrated stacks, and IBM having sold integrated legacy system stacks and rolling in profits from them for decades, it was only a matter of time before other big IT players paired off Today, through a …

    Enterprise 13 Jan 18:43

  • RealNetworks boss in sudden exit

    Glaser steps down after 16 years

    Rob Glaser - founder of internet media outfit RealNetworks - has stepped down as chief executive of the company after sixteen years at the helm. Current general counsel and executive vice president of corporate development Robert Kimball has been appointed president and acting CEO. He will also serve on the company's board of …

    Enterprise 13 Jan 23:28

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