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9th February 2010 Archive

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  • Adobe apologizes for festering Flash crash bug

    16 months...and counting

    An Adobe product manager has apologized for allowing a potentially serious bug in Flash Player to remain unfixed for more than 16 months. The admission, by Emmy Huang, product manager for Flash, came a week after Apple CEO Steve Jobs lambasted Adobe engineers as "lazy" and said when Macs crash, "more often than not it’s because …

    Software & Security 9 Feb 00:33

  • AMD talks energy with 'Llano' cores

    Ceepie-geepie cold Fusion

    While Intel is talking up its "Westmere" CPUs and their graphics co-processing, which puts a 45 nanometer graphics chip and memory controller inside the same chip package as a two-core Core processor implemented using 32 nanometer processes, rival AMD wants to change the subject to a truly integrated, single-chip CPU/GPU …

    Enterprise 9 Feb 06:02

  • OpenOffice is the new David Hasselhoff

    Big in Germany. Not so big in Blighty

    A new study from German web analytics firm Webmasterpro.de shows that adoption rates of open source productivity software suites swings wildly between different countries. According to the study, over 20 per cent of Germans, Czechs, and Poles run OpenOffice or other open-source productivity suites, while the UK and US lag …

    Software & Security 9 Feb 07:02

  • Intel's 'Tukwila' Itaniums - hot n' pricey

    Analysis How much for an upgrade?

    As El Reg duly reported earlier today, Intel took the wraps off its long awaited and many times tweaked "Tukwila" quad-core Itanium 9300 processors for midrange and high-end servers. But let's take a look at the feeds and speeds of the chip itself and how the lineup compared to the prior Itanium 9100 series. There are five …

    Enterprise 9 Feb 08:02

  • SAP serenely promises to be less bad

    You know all that stuff we did? We won't do that again

    German software giant SAP has promised to be less bad under its new leadership after losing its chief executive on Sunday. SAP's chairman Hasso Plattner admitted the company had made mistakes, especially in ramping up maintenance fees. The rises started in 2008, for new customers, despite user anger and the company failing to …

    Software & Security 9 Feb 11:44

  • Nvidia launches dual-GPU tech for notebooks

    Hybrid graphics done properly

    Nvidia reckons it has finally cracked the problem of smoothly swapping between graphics chips in notebooks that have more than one GPU. Today, it launched its solution, which it has branded Optimus. Now, we're not talking two or more GPUs configured in SLI mode for greater graphics performance. Optimus addresses the use of a …

    Reg Hardware 9 Feb 14:02

  • Nasuni provides cloud-based filer

    Just add storage

    Startup Nasuni says it has cracked the problem of storing files directly in the cloud with a software virtual NAS appliance. The Nasuni filer is software that provides a CIFS and NFS gateway interface to files stored in the cloud and looks like a regular network-attached storage (NAS) filer to applications and servers. It …

    Enterprise 9 Feb 16:15

  • Riverbed WAN optimizers get SSDs, 10 GE

    3X throughput, 2X connections

    WAN optimization appliance maker Riverbed Technology has taken the wraps off its Steelhead 7050 boxes, which sport the first solid state disks used in such an appliance as well as 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports on the data center side and over 1 Gb/sec of WAN bandwidth on the wide side. The Steelhead 7050s come in two flavors. Both …

    Enterprise 9 Feb 19:46

  • IBM gives birth to 'wire-speed' processor

    ISSCC Neither server fish nor network fowl

    IBM has introduced a new chip design that sits somewhere between a network processor and server processor. Dubbed the Wire-Speed Power Processor, the chip is aimed at what IBM calls "new, evolving markets in the system industry." Applications include edge-of-network processing, intelligent I/O for servers and network attached …

    Enterprise 9 Feb 21:17

  • IBM chills sealed data center with outside air

    Ambient air water tank cooling

    If you want to be a player in cloud computing, you have to build data centers. Server maker IBM probably thinks it will sell a lot more internal cloud than external cloud, but it realized that customers will want a mix of public and hosted cloud infrastructure to run their workloads. Hence, IBM has shelled out $362m to build a …

    Enterprise 9 Feb 22:21

  • Hitachi inks Xsigo pact for server I/O virt

    Be like Dell

    Xsigo Systems, which peddles an in-band I/O virtualization appliance for servers and their storage and networks, has inked a partnership deal with Japanese server and storage maker Hitachi. Hitachi is looking for some kind of leverage for pushing its storage and servers, and Xsigo's VP780 I/O Director helps fill in some gaps …

    Enterprise 9 Feb 22:54

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