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27th January 2010 Archive

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  • Cisco sets free video con protocol

    Big enough to share

    Cisco is hoping to expand its reach in video conferencing by giving away a telepresence protocol that allows Cisco kit to communicate with systems from other vendors. The network giant also give a peek at its upcoming consumer telepresence products and announced it's rolling out two new high-end video conferencing endpoints …

    Enterprise 27 Jan 00:22

  • Avere adds flash to filer accelerator

    Missing tier arrives

    Avere announced its FXT filer accelerator appliance last year with a missing flash storage tier. It's filled that gap with the FXT 2700 adding the flash for extra filer dash. Avere burst onto the network-attached storage (NAS) with a 4-tier architecture FTX NAS accelerator appliance containing DRAM, NVRAM and 15K SAS disk to …

    Enterprise 27 Jan 06:02

  • Netezza slims TwinFin analytics appliance

    Skimmer aims low

    Data warehousing appliance maker Netezza has put together a cut-down version of its TwinFin analytics appliance, called Skimmer, to chase midrange customers who do not need the full-tilt-boogie TwinFin setup. The Skimmer appliance is based on the same hardware and software setup that Netezza announced in August 2009 for the …

    Enterprise 27 Jan 06:02

  • Scott McNealy signs off in style

    Walks into the Sun set

    One of Silicon Valley's last true characters has signed off - Sun founder Scott McNealy has sent a final goodbye memo to his staff. In his own words McNealy is "a big mouth who is always ready with a clever quip" and his swansong email does not disappoint. He said the last four years (since he left the company) had "not been …

    Enterprise 27 Jan 08:55

  • Sun shops unnerved by Oracle Alpha man

    The Larry Factor

    It's open season on customers running Sun Microsystems. On Tuesday -the day before Oracle was due to announce which Sun products it's keeping and their roadmaps - Sun nemesis IBM's tried once more to exploit lingering uncertainty over Sun's products that's been generated by the Oracle purchase. IBM's updated Migration Factory …

    Enterprise 27 Jan 09:02

  • Seagate expanding into PCIe flash

    LSI to hop on board alongside

    Seagate is diving into PCIe-connected solid state drives via a partnership with LSI. Currently Seagate makes a Pulsar SSD with a 3Gbit/s SATA interface. It fits in a 2.5-inch hard disk drive slot in a disk drive enclosure. A PCIe-connected SSD fits into a server as a plug-in flash card and that's where LSI comes in. It is …

    Enterprise 27 Jan 10:10

  • Swiss computing lab offers free bug-immunity tool

    Clouds, browsers can self-debug without help, says prof

    Federal boffins in Switzerland say they have developed a new, freely-downloadable tool which acts as an "immune system" to fight bugs in cloud software. The software, developed in the Dependable Systems lab at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), is called "Dimmunix". Its developers, led by lab chief George …

    Enterprise 27 Jan 10:32

  • Toshiba looks ahead, sees a 14TB disk

    Comment Sifting through the bit pattern

    Earlier this month Toshiba researchers presented a couple of papers concerning bit-patterned media (BPM) and associated head technologies at a Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Intermag conference in Washington DC. They have been working towards an areal density of 5Tbit/sq in for hard disk drives and this was by way of a …

    Enterprise 27 Jan 12:36

  • EMC blows CIFS benchmark away

    But shies away from NFS

    EMC has blown a CIFS benchmark away with a result 2.7 times better than the previous record, but why is it bothering? The only other suppliers on the list are Apple, Fujitsu and Silicon Graphics. The benchmark is the SPECsfs2008 CIFS file access benchmark. There is a similar benchmark for NFS which is much more popular in …

    Enterprise 27 Jan 12:41

  • UK.gov tweaks open source policy small print

    Enforce or fall on own sword, warns Ingres

    The UK government has rejigged its open source and open standards software procurement policy, following pressure from OSS vendors last autumn. Early last year the Cabinet Office revised its rules on public sector open source software purchases, but many OSS players complained that the policy amendments didn’t go far enough. …

    Software & Security 27 Jan 13:32

  • Microsoft 'offered sex and drugs to distributors'

    And the problem is?

    As sales incentives go it's pretty extreme: one of Microsoft's Israeli distributors is claiming Microsoft offered resellers women for sex on a cruise ship. The distributor, EIM Computerized Technologies, made the revelations about the alleged activities in papers filed with the Tel Aviv District Court. The story in the Globes …

    IT Channel 27 Jan 15:47

  • Larry to take integrated Sunacle direct to CIOs

    Oracle reveals its surprisingly reasonable plans for Sun

    All the talk of layoffs at Sun Microsystems in the wake of the $7.4bn acquisition of the company by Oracle was apparently a bunch of hogwash. Prior to a five-hour extravaganza where Oracle and Sun executives will detail roadmaps and plans in the wake of the merger, Oracle chief executive officer, Larry Ellison, made the rounds …

    Enterprise 27 Jan 16:25

  • Oracle promises golden trip to yesteryear on Sun

    Like 1960s IBM. But 'open'

    Oracle's promised to take computing back to the 1960s by investing in Sun Microsystems' products and integrating them with its own software. Calling IBM the "gold-standard" for stable and reliable computing during those early days, Oracle president Charles Philips said Wednesday morning that his company would achieve its goal …

    Software & Security 27 Jan 18:41

  • Oracle in MySQL, OpenOffice autonomy vow

    You will take our extensions

    The employees of MySQL are a truly blessed people. As with Sun Microsystems before it, Oracle has vowed to leave its sales and development team independent and intact. Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect, said Wednesday that Sun's MySQL independent sales force and development teams will be retained inside the …

    Software & Security 27 Jan 21:10

  • Ellison to recruit thousands for Sun integration army

    Linux needs to grow up

    Larry Ellison has promised jobs for Sun Microsystems' existing employees and an expansion in their ranks, along with instant profits for his shareholders. Oracle's chief executive on Wednesday claimed that - far from laying off beleaguered Sun employees - his company would be hiring 2,000 additional people during the next few …

    Software & Security 27 Jan 23:16

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