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26th January 2010 Archive

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  • Sun's Schwartz finished under Ellison?

    Too many CEOs 'round here

    Jonathan Schwartz is reportedly getting ready to quit Sun Microsystems, four years after being given the job of putting the giant on a course for success. According to All Things D, Sun's chief executive will "soon" resign from Sun, leaving the company in the hands of new owner Oracle. Oracle would not comment. But it would …

    Enterprise 26 Jan 00:17

  • SourceForge bars 5 nations from open source downloads

    Some countries more equal than others

    Open-source code repository SourceForge.net has begun automatically blocking the internet addresses of users from countries such as Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Sudan, and Syria in an attempt to enforce a policy forbidding them from downloading free software. The move infuriated many purists of the free and open-source software …

    Software & Security 26 Jan 07:02

  • IBM attempts Google Vulcan death grip

    The future of Notes is Wave

    Another Lotusphere is behind us, with news for IBM's business hivemind and collaboration software aplenty. But why does Big Blue host its shindig way over in Orlando, Florida, when it's easier to peek at Google's portfolio on the other coast? Lotusphere 2010 was a bit unusual in that it didn't completely revolve around the …

    Software & Security 26 Jan 08:02

  • Remember CVE? Say hello to CVN

    Cisco, VMware and NetApp start their own gang

    Move over EMC: NetApp is also partnering with Cisco and VMware. In an imitation of the CVE (Cisco, VMware and EMC) vBlock integrated stack concept, Cisco, NetApp and VMware have settled on an integrated stack architecture - without the orderable integrated blocks of product and an Acadia-like entity. The CVN coterie have …

    Enterprise 26 Jan 10:12

  • Dell bulks up on EMC products

    Spread a little OEM

    Dell will supply additional EMC products this year, confounding speculation that ties between the two were weakening. It's been noted by analysts such as Stifel Niklaus' Aaron Rakers that Dell could be selling relatively fewer EMC CLARiiON drive arrays as its EqualLogic iSCSI SAN business booms. This has prompted thoughts …

    Enterprise 26 Jan 12:13

  • IBM's monster tape will take three days to fill

    35TB cartridge poses whole new set of problems

    IBM Research has devised technology with FujiFilm to create a 35TB capacity tape, but it will take 3 days to write the data at LTO5 speeds. The new hyper-capacity half inch tape technology has been successfully read and written at a 29.5bn bits/sq in areal density, which means a tape capacity of 35TB according to the …

    Enterprise 26 Jan 14:57

  • EMC emerges from recession doldrums

    Back to square one, in the good way

    EMC is emerging from the recession, with revenues back to where they were a year ago, but higher quarterly profits. The company recorded $4.1bn revenues for its fourth 2009 quarter which was just two per cent higher than the $4.02bn recorded in 2008's last quarter. However, without increased VMware revenues - $607m compared to …

    Enterprise 26 Jan 15:53

  • Symantec dishes equal backup dedupe portions

    Backup Exec and NetBackup both happy

    Symantec is delivering on last year's deduplication promises by adding client/server and media server deduplication to its two backup products, NetBackup 7 and Backup Exec 2010. Backup Exec 2010 is claimed by Symantec to be the first backup and recovery product to offer granular recovery of Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Active …

    Enterprise 26 Jan 16:37

  • HP to appeal over potentially massive BSkyB ruling

    Judge delivers verdict in '£700m' contract case

    BSkyB has claimed victory in its long-running contract dispute with EDS, the services giant now owned by HP. A ruling was delivered to the firms today, and it is believed that the ruling accepts one of BSkyB's five claims, while rejecting the other four. However, British TV firm BSkyB sees this as a vindication of its claims …

    Enterprise 26 Jan 17:49

  • Amazon EC2 watcher kick-starts cloud of clouds

    Six clouds. One kick

    Cloudkick - the San Francisco startup that recently spied a latency slowdown on Amazon's sky-high Elastic Compute Cloud - has officially launched its eponymous cloud-management service, a means of juggling server instances across Amazon EC2 and similar on-demand compute offerings. You might call it as a cloud of clouds. When …

    Enterprise 26 Jan 19:07

  • Novell beefs software appliance kit

    How to harden SUSE Linux

    Novell says that its SUSE Appliance Toolkit is ready for primetime. Today, the company released an expanded version of the kit - used to create software appliances based on the SUSE distribution of Linux - giving software vendors and corporations a set of tools that were missing from the appliance making service SUSE Studio and …

    Software & Security 26 Jan 19:30

  • IBM reloads Sun poaching gun

    New kit for the Oracle-phobic

    With the European Union finally giving approval to Oracle's $7.4bn acquisition of Sun Microsystems last week, IBM is stepping up efforts to exploit any untapped feelings of uncertainty in shops using Sun iron. On Tuesday, IBM announced the addition of new software to its four-year-old “Migration Factory” vendor poaching …

    Software & Security 26 Jan 19:48

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