4th February 2010 Archive

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TPC adds power suckage to benchmarks

Performance (per watt) anxiety

If server makers are already anxious about how big their iron is, they'll now also need to start worrying about how cool they are. The Transaction Processing Council is a consortium of server, operating system, and database software makers that steers the development, running, auditing, and reporting of a suite of online …

Enterprise 4 Feb 06:02
Open-source Silverlight project drops early third code

Microsoft mirror

The open-source project shadowing Silverlight has come a step closer to mirroring the latest edition of Microsoft's challenger to Flash. Moonlight leader Miguel de Icaza said a preview of Moonlight 3.0 has been delivered for early testing. Features include early work on UI virtualization to handle large sets of data, and a …

Software & Security 4 Feb 07:02
IBM preps biz info flow sniffer

Plus auto-redaction software

Next month, IBM will demonstrate new business software designed to track how information flows across different systems and squeal when it spots potential flaws or alterations. Based on its own research along with technology from the $225m acquisition of Guardium in 2009, IBM's InfoSphere Business Information Monitor will be …

Software & Security 4 Feb 09:02
Schwartz goes all of a Twitter

He goes in style - oddly

Jonathan Schwartz, now the ex-CEO of Oracle-owned Sun, went in the same way as he ran the company, oddly: he tweeted a haiku to his followers. With an impish sense of humour he wrote: Today's my last day at Sun. I'll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/ Stalled too many customers/ CEO no more He' …

Enterprise 4 Feb 10:20
HP ordered to pay £200m in interim damages ruling

Sky is the limit for total figure

The High Court has ordered Hewlett-Packard to pay BSkyB £200 million in interim damages, according to press reports. The interim award follows a ruling last week over a contract tendering process. Computer Weekly reports that the damages must be paid within 14 days, by 17th February. "[HP] shall make an interim payment on …

Enterprise 4 Feb 10:51
Big iron bolsters Q4 at Unisys

Mainframes make money

The rebound in spending on two upgraded mainframe lines and aggressive costcutting helped swing Unisys to a profit in the final quarter of 2009, despite ongoing revenue declines. Overall sales for Unisys in Q4 were down 5.5 per cent to $1.21bn, and services revenues fell by 9 per cent to just over $1bn. But thanks to a big …

Enterprise 4 Feb 17:11
Cisco's California sales on the double

400 sees gold in them thar servers

With business brewing again over at networking giant Cisco Systems and poised for a recovery in spending on networking, the company's competitors in the server racket - mainly Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Oracle - were perhaps annoyed to see that Cisco's "California" Unified Computing System blade and rack servers are continuing to …

Enterprise 4 Feb 19:11
Juniper bakes 250Gbps core router chip

Preemptive Cisco strike

Juniper Networks has said it has new silicon in the oven that will soon let its T Series core routers reach a full duplex per-slot capacity of 250 gigabits per second. On Thursday, the company said trials with products using the chipset, an in-house affair fabbed at 45nm, are penned for the second half of 2010 and will be …

Enterprise 4 Feb 19:35
Apache terminates 'outdated' web server

We, and the world, move on

An increasingly creaky version of the web's most popular web server has finally been retired after twelve years serving billions of pages. The Apache Software Foundation has released HTTP Sever 1.3.42, saying this is the final release of the 1.3 branch, and there will be no more updates except for critical security fixes. …

Software & Security 4 Feb 19:41