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28th January 2010 Archive

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  • NewScale spruces IT storefrontware

    IT's internal Amazon

    newScale - an outfit that offers enterpriseware for cataloging, provisioning, and tracking internal IT stuff - has released a new incarnation of this IT-happy package, dubbed the FrontOffice Suite. Version 9 of the suite includes a new platform - known as the LifecycleCenter - for tracking the entire existence of IT equipment …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 00:18

  • Oracle to invest in Sparc iron, clusters

    No onesies and twosies

    If you were expecting a huge amount of detail on Oracle's plans for Sun processors, servers, and storage products at the five-hour mega-event held in San Francisco today, you'll be disappointed. But if you're a Sun customer, you'll be relieved to know that Oracle at least said it will invest in Sparc and x64 servers, storage, …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 01:18

  • Oracle murders Sun's copycat Amazon cloud

    Back to reality

    It took a major acquisition to finally deliver a dose of reality, but Sun Microsystems' me-too Amazon-style cloud is finally dead. On Wednesday, Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect, said unequivocally that the database giant would not be offering Sun's long-planned and highly-vaunted compute resource service. …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 07:02

  • 3PAR plugs-in more power to VMware

    Promises to manage InServes in a jiffy

    3PAR is giving more power to VMware administrators to protect, copy and manage virtual server-related data on InServ arrays, with a pair of software plug-ins. 3PAR's Recovery Manager plug-in for vSphere enables VMware admins to rapidly provision new virtual machines (VMs), using VM copies. They can create hundreds of VM-aware …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 08:02

  • Oracle tag teams Solaris and Linux

    Virtual togetherness

    If you want to know what Oracle's roadmap is for Linux, just watch what Red Hat does. Oracle Enterprise Linux is just a clone of RHEL. Getting a sense of what Oracle really has planned for Solaris - aside from deploying it in SMP systems and clusters - is going to take some time. Oracle's plans for virtualization and system …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 09:02

  • Logicalis thinks CVN architecture is restrictive

    Needs more multi-tenancy tiers and flexible server virtualisation

    Logicalis' new cloud service does not appear to support the secure, multi-tenancy architecture announced to a great fanfare by Cisco, NetApp and VMware (CVN) yesterday. It sounds like it should, as Logicalis describes its Cooperative Enterprise Cloud Service as being built on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) and NetApp …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 10:24

  • Seagate pumps £60m into Springtown plant

    Next-gen read/write heads

    In a bit of cheery news for Ulster, Seagate is pumping £60m into its Springtown, Londonderry, plant to develop next-generation read/write heads. Springtown develops and manufactures the hard disk drive heads using nanoscale technology, and supplies more than a million heads a day. The £60m is made up of £47.3m from Seagate …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 11:42

  • Mellanox recovering but wheezing

    Good revenue rise, smaller profit

    InfiniBand supplier Mellanox is making profits as the recession eases, but much less than before. The company, like competitor Voltaire, is embracing 10gigE alongside InfiniBand, and the greater competition in the Ethernet market means it has to work harder to stay afloat. In its fourth 2009 quarter revenues were $35.5m, a 41 …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 11:57

  • New SGI chases new partners

    Boutique strategy

    The recently combined Rackable/SGI is looking to add some new blood to depleted partner ranks. After the merger, the company dropped about one-third of its combined partners for various reasons and is now trying to rebuild its channel presence. The company is looking for folks who have both enterprise and HPC chops – which …

    IT Channel 28 Jan 13:25

  • EDS ruling won't mean overhaul for IT procurement

    Sweat ye not

    IT companies will not have to conduct a total overhaul of their sales processes in the aftermath of a long-awaited court ruling this week, a technology law expert has said. The ruling focused on the dishonesty of one employee, not a whole company. BSkyB hired IT company EDS to build it a £48m customer relationship management …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 14:54

  • Oracle: Storage trouble in store

    Comment Sun's 7000 top of the class - who's getting expelled?

    Oracle is putting a heavy focus on Sun's 7000, tape and flash storage products, implying the rest of the bought-in storage line is not so well-regarded and may be under threat. Larry E and the new exec team at the big O have spoken and the storage winners and losers are becoming clear. In the winners' enclosure are the …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 16:37

  • Citrix desktop virt soars in Q4

    XenServer foundation

    Citrix Systems staked its future on virtualization when it shelled out $500m to buy XenSource in August 2007. And while it's arguable that virtualization on servers and desktops has not played out as expected, mashing up system virtualization technologies with existing application virtualization tools to create new products - as …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 19:39

  • Juniper needles way to recovery

    Berries 2009 revenue slump in Q4

    Juniper Networks saw a slight drop in fourth-quarter profit, but the network kit maker unexpectedly topped its own estimates for revenue thanks to renewed spending from corporate customers and US phone carriers. The world's second-largest network kit maker is also optimistic for a rebound from 2009, which saw profits for most …

    Enterprise 28 Jan 23:37

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