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8th February 2010 Archive

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  • Netezza taps NEC for data warehouse kit

    But still loves IBM

    Data warehouse appliance maker Netezza - which will be coming under pressure Oracle and IBM, who want a bigger slice of the data analytics hardware and software business - has inked a deal with Japanese server maker NEC that will see the two cooperate on creating a new line of Netezza hardware based on NEC's products. Netezza …

    Enterprise 8 Feb 03:40

  • Power7 - Big Blue eye on UNIX

    Four server preemptive launch

    The scuttlebutt is that IBM seemed perfectly content to wait until May to launch the Power7-based Power Systems servers, but something changed and compelled the company to move up the announcement of its first machines using the eight-core processor to today. Big Blue is not in a habit of explaining its motives or its timing for …

    Enterprise 8 Feb 05:02

  • Power7 v Power6 - it's all about the cache

    Double the thread count

    IBM is launching the first of its Power7-based systems today, and the company thinks that the innovations inside the Power7 processor are going to give it a leg-up on the competition in terms of capacity, throughput, and energy-efficiency. But how do those Power7 processors stack up to the existing Power6 and Power6+ processors …

    Enterprise 8 Feb 08:02

  • Promise pops up in UK with Drobo-ish box

    Empty 4-bay NAS product with Appley flavour

    Promise Technology is setting out its stall in the UK with a product line that includes a Drobo-lookalike, the NS4600, which like the Drobo offers media serving functionality. Both boxes are curved edge black rectangles, with four empty drive bays, FireWire and USB connectivity, and can be upgraded with new disk drives as …

    Enterprise 8 Feb 08:02

  • State officials seize InPhase assets in lieu of taxes

    The lights are out - and for sale

    In a final emphatic demonstration that the money has run out, holographic storage developer InPhase's premises have been seized for non-payment of taxes by the Colorado Department of Revenue. According to local reports, the state has changed the locks on the doors and announced that everything owned by InPhase, including …

    Enterprise 8 Feb 09:57

  • MySQL handler Jacobs walks out on Oracle

    It's a terrific place to work - just not for me

    Oracle's open source strategy was looking a little fenced in this morning, after the database giant lost one of its most prominent voices and OpenOffice was snubbed by Ubuntu developers. Ken Jacobs resigned from Oracle late last week, according to reports. Jacobs was vice president of product strategy in Oracle's server …

    Software & Security 8 Feb 11:15

  • Cloud firm wafts out white label ERP for small biz

    Seven years work for £30 a head

    Salesorder.com is offering a white label version of its online ERP software for resellers to sell on to their customers. UK operations director Nick Spooner told us the software came about when he was running a small business and looking for a cloud ERP product. Spooner said: "NetSuite wanted £30,000 and I couldn't find the …

    Software & Security 8 Feb 11:25

  • US scientists get free cloud on-ramp

    Microsoft and NSF plugging Azure

    Microsoft and the US National Science Foundation have announced an agreement that will provide free access to cloud computing resources for select NSF-funded researchers for the next three years. This was discussed by Microsoft's corporate VP for tech strategy and policy, Dan Reed, in a blog. Instead of buying supercomputers …

    Enterprise 8 Feb 11:42

  • Leaky anti-virus defences letting malware through

    Spanky new scanners no longer cutting it

    Even users running up-to-date anti-virus software still get infected with malware, according to stats from an online malware scanning service. Nearly a third (25,000 out of 78,800) of computers with up-to-date anti-virus software were discovered to be infected with malicious code when users scanned their PC using SurfRight's …

    Software & Security 8 Feb 11:44

  • Samsung preps Wacko Jacko movie hard drive

    Film pre-loaded on HDD

    Wacko Jacko fans, Samsung has the external hard drive for you. In just two weeks' time, the South Korean giant will release a 500GB 2.5in drive - the S2 Portable - pre-loaded with the Jackson film This is it. Gold coloured, the drive's top is styled with the star's sillhouette. Samsung's Jacko Drive: yes, this is it The …

    reghardware 8 Feb 12:00

  • US gives Chinese man 2.5 years over fake Cisco kit

    Cisco no-no

    A Chinese man has been sentenced to a two and half year stretch in California for flogging counterfeit Cisco parts in the US. Yongcai Li will also have to repay $800,000 to Cisco Systems, for selling the kit, which carried fake Cisco trademarks. He had shipped the kit into the US in 2005 and 2006, prosecutors said. The US …

    IT Channel 8 Feb 12:24

  • Phoenix recovers barbecued data in Europe

    Firey databird has new nest, but is it er, cheep?

    European data centres can recover data from data centres blown to smithereens by using Axxana's near-bomb proof Phoenix data recovery system MTI is now marketing Axxana's Phoenix RP hardened enterprise data recorder in Europe, but not the middle East and Africa. The story is that, even if a passenger jet flies into a data …

    Enterprise 8 Feb 15:58

  • Dell snaps up crashed Exanet

    Update How to turn $70m into $12m

    Dell is buying failed clustered filer supplier Exanet for $12m. Exanet slid into bankruptcy last month. At the time, Dell was rumoured to be interested in buying it. That deal is now being done and if it completes Dell will gain intellectual property and possibly a research and development centre in Israel. A Dell statement …

    Enterprise 8 Feb 16:24

  • Microsoft kills FAST's Linux and Unix search biz

    Values your business on Windows

    Customers of FAST's Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) on Linux or Unix better develop a taste for Windows or look elsewhere for their enterprise search. Microsoft- which bought FAST in 2008 - has announced it will stop development of FAST's ESP core on Linux and Unix after the release of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 later …

    Software & Security 8 Feb 20:22

  • Oracle issues emergency security patch for WebLogic

    'Full disclosure' yields results

    Oracle issued an emergency patch for its WebLogic Server almost two weeks after a white-hat hacker disclosed a vulnerability that allows criminals to remotely execute commands on the webserver with no authentication necessary. The vulnerability in the Node Manager component of Oracle WebLogic Server can be exploited by …

    Software & Security 8 Feb 22:38

  • SourceForge reverses ban on US foes

    U-turn on 'blanket blocking'

    Open Source code repository SourceForge.net has pulled a U-turn on a widely unpopular decision to ban users from accessing its website from countries under US trade restrictions. In a blog post Sunday, SourceForge announced that it has instead handed over responsibility of navigating international trade laws to individual …

    Software & Security 8 Feb 22:42

  • Intel 'Tukwila' born after long and painful labor

    Blame it on marketing

    Intel officially unveiled its long-delayed Tukwila "mission-critical" server processor today - now dubbed the Itanium 9300 series - providing a few more details about the 2-billion transistor part and giving some color on why it was over three years late. Made in conjunction with this week's International Solid-State Circuits …

    Enterprise 8 Feb 23:05

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