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19th January 2010 Archive

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  • Nvidia details GF100 graphics beastie

    Minus the price - and the speed

    Nvidia has released additional details on its upcoming GF100 graphics processor, and if the GPU performs as well in reality as it does on paper, AMD/ATI's Radeon HD 5000 series may have a worthy competitor. The GF100 will be Nvidia's first to be based on the company's muscular Fermi architecture, which features such niceties …

    PC Builder 19 Jan 07:02

  • Monty buffs MySQL cuckoo egg

    Taste the difference

    A fully completed first version of MySQL fork MariaDB has come a step closer, with a release candidate delivered by Monty Widenius on Monday. MariaDB 5.1.41 RC is based on the MySQL 5.1 code base, available since November 2008. MySQL-co-founder Widenius called the database RC a "drop-in replacement for any recent MySQL 5.1 …

    Software & Security 19 Jan 07:02

  • BakBone combines backup and replication

    Enough to send a shiver down your spine

    BakBone is embedding replication into its NVFR v4 product to provide a disaster recovery capability. BakBone's NVFR, or NetVault: FASTRecover, was announced in June last year. This stores changed blocks from a Windows file system, Exchange server or SQL Server on a disk-based system, and can recover the server in what appears …

    Enterprise 19 Jan 09:47

  • ArchiveVerify promises to untangle tapes

    Tape verification at the crossroads

    It's the tape archive nightmare - racks and racks of carefully stored tape cartridges and you don't know if they can be read. Welcome to the tape restoration lottery. Crossroads Europe thinks it can help you out here. ArchiveVerify is a tape validity monitoring tool that's an option for the existing RVA (ReadVerify Appliance) …

    Enterprise 19 Jan 10:09

  • BT takes axe to Local Business

    'Significant' cuts

    BT is making deep cuts to its Local Business network this week, following a year and a half of plummeting sales. BT Local Business director Andy Hudson told staff: "Quite frankly the business is really, really, really struggling... every quarter we are failing to grow and we are shrinking." He declined to say in a conference …

    IT Channel 19 Jan 10:51

  • Tales of the data centre

    Regcasts galore!

    The Register produced some 25 webcasts in 2009, Today we present five of the best, all with a data centre or sysadmin bent, for your viewing delectation. Not tried a Regcast yet? Give us a twirl and tune into some deep and meaningful conversation, Q&A sessions with Reg readers supplying the Qs, leavened with a pinch of humour …

    Enterprise 19 Jan 11:02

  • Plextor plunges into SSD pool

    Hitching ride on PLDS

    Japanese-owned Plextor, a significant player in the optical drive business, is entering the solid state disk (SSD) market, riding on the back of Philips Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS). Plextor is privately owned by Shimano Kenshi of Japan. PLDS is a joint-venture and is licensed to sell Plextor kit in North America. PLDS …

    Enterprise 19 Jan 11:36

  • EMC rains on Pillar's parade

    Adds 2TB drives to CLARiiON and Celerra

    Strangely, on the day Pillar formally announces its faster Axiom with boosted controller performance, EMC has announced denser CLARiiON and Celerra arrays with 2TB drive support. The higher-density CLARiiON CX4s have double the capacity of existing systems in half the floorspace, due to a new rack design. They support 2TB SATA …

    Enterprise 19 Jan 15:53

  • Server maker Verari sparks back into life

    Equity-backed founder retakes the helm

    Say goodbye to Verari Systems, and say hello to Verari Technologies. As El Reg has been chronicling, the boutique blade server and storage maker and provider of containerized data centers hit the financial rocks in early December 2009 and after a few weeks of pondering the options, the handful of top brass left at the firm - …

    Enterprise 19 Jan 16:01

  • Unisys jettisons Medicare processing biz

    When server suppliers need cash

    Server and outsourcing supplier Unisys - which seems to have been restructuring itself since mainframe makers Sperry and Burroughs were mashed up in 1986 - is rejigging itself once again. This time, the company is selling off its health information management business to raise some cash. Unisys said this morning that Molina …

    Enterprise 19 Jan 19:30

  • IBM bakes Lotus Notes for Android

    Plus Traveler server for Linux

    IBM isn't forgetting about Google's mobile OS after squeezing Lotus Notes onto the iPhone and the BlackBerry. Big Blue has said that an Android-based app for Lotus Notes is now in the works. Deadline: before Microsoft makes its own Android-based app for Exchange. Lotus Notes Traveler Companion, IBM's first application for the …

    Software & Security 19 Jan 22:20

  • Microhoozon calls for un-Google ebook guardian

    The Library of Congress. Not the Library of Google

    Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo!, and other opponents of Google's Book Search settlement have proposed an alternative to the controversial legal pact, calling on the US Congress to appoint a "public guardian" to oversee a national database of digital books. The Open Book Alliance - whose members include the tech trio, Internet …

    Enterprise 19 Jan 23:35

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