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14th January 2010 Archive

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  • VMware hypervisors on the Go

    Server virt for cheapskates

    With a number of freebie alternatives to its flagship ESX Server 4.0 hypervisor out there in the market - including some pretty stiff competition from Microsoft's Hyper-V, Citrix Systems' XenServer, and Red Hat's KVM - VMware has to do something to engage and hold small and medium businesses who are not gonna pay a lot for that …

    Enterprise 14 Jan 07:02

  • Dixons celebrates shiny Christmas

    Sales up but margins down

    DSGi - the group behind PC World and Currys - has updated the City on trading over the crucial Christmas period. For the 12 weeks ended 9 January group sales were up eight per cent with only UK computing sales showing a slight fall - down three per cent in like-for-like terms. The retailer said that Windows 7 provided a bit of …

    IT Channel 14 Jan 09:04

  • Microsoft tells UK schools: buy our software, save money

    Bett Hopes Tories (and Google) won't crash the party

    Microsoft's UK education chief insisted yesterday that schools would continue to lap up its software despite tightening budgets and a likely change of government - and education policy - in the next few months. In an interview with The Register at the Bett (British Educational Training and Technology) event in London, the …

    IT Channel 14 Jan 09:52

  • Report calls for mandatory shared back office

    That's not a euphemism

    Legislation should be used to force local authorities to share back office facilities, according to a new report. Stop, Start, Save - Shared Service Delivery in Local Government, published by the Deloitte consultancy, says councils have been incapable of delivering the level of savings achieved in the private sector and that, …

    Enterprise 14 Jan 10:08

  • Sun shines on PC sales as economic storm abates

    The Win 7 effect? Not much

    PC sales in the fourth quarter showed a surprising jump in sales - partly thanks to low prices and partly due to purchases put off in previous quarters. Gartner warned that although worldwide sales hit 90 million units, a 22.1 per cent increase on the fourth quarter 2008 - but that quarter was a particularly bad one. Figures …

    PC Builder 14 Jan 10:37

  • Dell positioning to acquire Exanet

    Circles stricken NAS cluster vendor

    It is reported and we hear from other sources that Dell is inching closer to buying failed clustered NAS vendor Exanet. Israeli headquartered Exanet went titsup before Christmas, and a liquidator was appointed to get the best results from selling the company or its assets. A Dell rescue deal had previously been on the cards …

    Enterprise 14 Jan 11:16

  • Samsung soups up flash capacity

    Wants bigger share of big market

    Samsung has souped up its flash capacity with a 64GB MoviNAND product and a 32GB microSD (Secure Digital) product. MoviNAND is an embedded NAND flash product with an MMC interface, flash memory and controller in a BGA package. The 64GB moviNAND measures 1.4mm in height and is built from 16 32nm, 32Gbit, 2-bit multi-level cell …

    Enterprise 14 Jan 12:45

  • Cisco, NetApp and VMware announce three-way love-in

    Although John Chambers isn't that sort of CEO

    Hot on the heels of HP and Microsoft, Cisco, NetApp and VMware are planning a big announcement on January 26th, attended by the CEOs of NetApp and VMware, but not Cisco. What gives? The event registration web page talks of helping you "imagine and achieve virtually anything with one elegant solution." NetApp boss Tom Georgens …

    Enterprise 14 Jan 15:32

  • Nvidia gets biological with life sciences nerds

    Better shampoos through GPUs

    Nvidia has a substantial lead over rivals Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, and IBM when it comes to peddling graphics co-processors, and it wants to keep that lead and extend it, if possible. That means doing boring old stuff that server and operating system makers have to do, such as lining up application software vendors so they …

    Enterprise 14 Jan 17:04

  • Panasonic flees Microsoft Exchange for IBM cloud

    'The world's largest cloud computing contract'

    IBM will be moving Panasonic's workforce to LotusLive hosted email and collaboration software, in what it's touting as the largest enterprise cloud computing contract to date. One day after Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard said they would spend $250m on a combined effort to push businesses toward cloud computing, IBM has swooped …

    Software & Security 14 Jan 17:50

  • Ex-AMD exec called own company 'pathetic'

    And Intel would like you to know it

    Intel has dropped a stink bomb into its ongoing dust-up with the US Federal Trade Commission over allegations of anticompetitive practices, revealing a 2004 communication in which AMD's then-top salesman referred to his own company as "pathetic" and said he "would never buy AMD for a personal system if I wasn't workin here." …

    PC Builder 14 Jan 19:04

  • Cisco stuffs four SAN services into one card

    Boxes data migrationware into appliance

    Cisco has unveiled a new four-services-in-one network line card designed to move more data storage functions out of end devices and into the fabric. Cisco's Storage Services Node 16 (SSN-16) consolidates Cisco's existing fabric-based SAN services into one card for a MDS 9000 director chassis. The 16-port line card contains …

    Enterprise 14 Jan 20:06

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