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1st February 2010 Archive

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  • Sun Oracle revs LDom VMs for Sparc Ts

    Pre-deal whisper release

    Former server and systems software maker Sun Microsystems, now part of the Oracle collective, quietly announced a new release of the Logical Domain virtual machine hypervisor for the Sparc T line of processors several days ahead of the closing of the $7.4bn deal. As El Reg already explained in its in-depth coverage of the …

    Enterprise 1 Feb 06:02

  • Microsoft and IBM cloud collab claims deflated

    They're shrinking faster!

    You have to leave it to IBM and Microsoft. The two won't let a small thing like a shrinking market douse the fire of a heated rivalry over business collaboration wares. The business collaboration market is hot right now. Red hot! Well, hypothetically red hot. But that's reason enough for these software giants to make some very …

    Software & Security 1 Feb 07:02

  • Microsoft accuses Google of 'software plus services'

    Mountain View's self-contradiction

    Microsoft has accused Google of behaving like Microsoft. Back in 2007, Redmond bet its web future on what it likes to call "software plus services" - the notion that web applications are best used in tandem with clientware installed on your local PC. And for the past two and a half years, this has remained the Redmond mantra …

    Software & Security 1 Feb 07:35

  • IBM chases SMBs with custom data closets

    Grow up, get secure. And fire resistant

    While a number of companies are peddling and about as few companies are buying containerized data centers, even a 20 foot shipping container is overkill for a compact data center at most small and medium businesses. And a 40 footer would end up just being a place where the IT staff hung out to play video games. What most SMBs …

    IT Channel 1 Feb 08:02

  • Glasshouse tries for IPO - again

    Looking for $75m

    Trading conditions must be improving, as storage services company Glasshouse Technologies has refiled IPO papers and is looking to raise $75m. It previously filed IPO papers in December 2007, looking for $100m, but walked away when the arrival of recession clouds in the spring of 2008 screwed up the IPO climate. A year ago …

    Enterprise 1 Feb 10:04

  • Intel and Micron get flash process lead

    Shrinks to 25nm

    Intel and Micron have jumped to a 25nm NAND flash process, shrinking cell size and raising wafer yields. They'll use their lead to raise profit margins instead of lowering prices. The two companies manufacture flash chips through a joint-venture, Intel Micron Flash Technologies, 49 per cent owned by Intel and 51 per cent by …

    Enterprise 1 Feb 10:19

  • Acer says no to iPad-alike tablet

    Focusing on netbooks, notebooks

    An Acer executive has contradicted one of his colleagues and claimed the company will not follow Apple into the multimedia web tablet arena. Acer Taiwan chief Scott Lin said the company has no plans to launch a gadget along the lines of Apple's iPad. But last week, Jim Wong, head of Acer’s IT products division, said the …

    Reg Hardware 1 Feb 10:55

  • Oracle and Sun: First takes

    Like IBM in 1960

    The roadblocks to Oracle’s purchase of Sun Microsystems have fallen away, and the deal is – for all intents and purposes – done. So what did we learn during last week's five-hour marathon webcast? A lot. Oracle laid out its entire strategy, at least in a broad sense. True to its word, it intends to stay in the hardware market …

    Enterprise 1 Feb 12:00

  • Fujitsu on brink of Quantum fusion breakthrough

    Restore speed issues fail to impact DXi deduper OEM deal

    Fujitsu is understood to be OEM'ing Quantum's DXi deduplication technology across its recently enhanced product line. Conversely, EMC and Dell may have dropped DXi deduplication because of slow restore speed. Quantum reported third fiscal 2010 quarter revenues of $182m, down 11 per cent from the year-ago quarter but up 4 per …

    Enterprise 1 Feb 12:15

  • Microsoft details new distie accreditation

    Targets new tech and virtualisation

    Microsoft has appointed Bell Micro and Computer 2000 as the first two disties to qualify as Value Add Distributors(VAD). The two were appointed 1 January. The scheme offers "additional rewards" for disties focussed on new and less mature technologies. The VAD scheme focusses on security, unified communications and …

    IT Channel 1 Feb 15:17

  • December chip sales reach 2007 levels

    Looking for growth in 2010

    The Semiconductor Industry Association, a trade group representing the interests of US-based chip and fab equipment makers, said today that worldwide chip sales in 2009 ended on a slight - and expected - down note. However, it said conditions in December were considerably better than a year ago when the bottom was falling out of …

    PC Builder 1 Feb 18:57

  • Power7 power lunch and launch next Monday

    IBM blocks out the Sun

    It looks like IBM's initial Power7-based servers are going to be launched in New York on February 8. Big Blue sent out the invitations today. IBM is being vague about exactly what it wants to talk about at the event, which is being held Mandarin Oriental Hotel Ballroom on Columbus Circle, except to say that customers and …

    Enterprise 1 Feb 20:23

  • HP bids to boost sales with 0% financing (again)

    Enticing CIOs to spend money they don't have

    More than IBM or Oracle, IT supplier Hewlett-Packard is dependent on volume sales to make its top and bottom lines. And with the economy improving but still not in great shape, HP has reanimated some zero per cent financing deals from early last year in the hopes of helping it get a solid start to 2010 in North America. …

    Enterprise 1 Feb 23:38

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