18th January 2010 Archive

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New York Times set to charge, again

Gray Lady flashes ankles at Steve Jobs

The New York Times is set to return to charging for access to its website. The site went free in 2007 presumably in the belief that the firm could make more money from advertising than it could from subscriptions. This is set to change - a spokeswoman for the paper confirmed changes were coming but said it was still working …

Enterprise 18 Jan 09:39
Pillar's Axiom 600 gets multicore brain transplant

50 per cent performance boost isn't rocket science

Pillar Data has increased the performance of its Axiom 600 array and laid the foundation for future systems, with a doubled core count in its Slammer controllers and 700,000 lines of new Axiom ONE software code. The Axiom 600 is Pillar's high-end enterprise-level array, with iSCSI and Fibre Channel block storage and also …

Enterprise 18 Jan 10:11
Nexsan adds high-availability to dedupe

FalconStor software also supports OST

Nexsan has souped up its deduplication product, adding a high-availability configuration, and support for Symantec's OST and 10GbitE. There is a new high-end box as well. The Dedupe SG product combo was announced last August and combines FalconStor's FDS dedupe with Nexsan's AutoMAID drive arrays. These spin down disk drives …

Enterprise 18 Jan 12:06
HMRC fraud warning emails baited by phishers

Spotting scams doesn't have to be taxing

UK taxpayers were targeted by a tax fraud scam mail run late last week. Fraudulent emails (sample extract below) tried to scare recipients into handing over confidential details to a bogus website in response to supposed allegations that the prospective mark was hiding some of their income. Tax Type: INCOME TAX Issue: …

Software & Security 18 Jan 12:56
Intel linked with HPC boost buy

Comment To FPGA or not to FPGA

With Intel sending its "Larrabee" graphics co-processor out to pasture late last year - before it even reached the market - it is natural to assume that the chip maker is looking for something to boost the performance of high performance compute clusters and the supercomputer workloads they run. Nvidia has its Tesla co- …

Enterprise 18 Jan 19:00
BlackBerry gets Quickr with Lotus

More Connections from RIM

Research in Motion (RIM) is packing more support for IBM's Lotus platform into BlackBerry smartphones with a new mobile application for Lotus Quickr. At the opening of IBM's Lotusphere conference in Orlando, Florida on Monday, RIM also unveiled a meatier version of the BlackBerry client for IBM Lotus Connections. The new …

Enterprise 18 Jan 19:52
IBM's 'Project Vulcan' sneak peeks Lotus Notes future

Live Labs experiment

IBM is giving its researchers a new pipeline to show off early versions of net-based Lotus collaboration tools. As part of its annual Lotusphere conference on Monday, the company also provided a peek at what it sees as the future of the business collaboration suite, a thing called "Project Vulcan." Taking a page from Google …

Software & Security 18 Jan 22:23
Windows 7 users to fly without SP parachute

Post-Vista confidence is high

Windows 7 is shaping up to become the first version of Windows that will see widespread deployment before the customary reassurances of a first service pack. According to a new survey, more than half of all Microsoft shops have decided to move to Windows 7 - either because they think the new OS is already stable enough for the …

Software & Security 18 Jan 23:46