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10th February 2010 Archive

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  • Open sourcers pump Eucalyptus clouds with data

    Terracotta caches in

    Eucalyptus Systems - the operation offering an open source platform meant to mimic Amazon EC2 inside private data centers - has partnered with fellow open-sourcer Terracotta to help customers upload and then access their data in private clouds. On Tuesday, the two companies promised tighter integration between Terracotta's …

    Enterprise 10 Feb 00:56

  • Microsoft drops open-source birthday gift with FAST

    Lucidly imaginative?

    As birthdays go, it's not a bad present. Microsoft's decision to sacrifice FAST's Enterprise Search Platform (ESP) development on Linux and Unix for Windows potentially gives open-source search providers like Lucid Imagination a free pass. In announcing the news Monday, FAST chief technology officer Bjørn Olstad was clearly …

    Enterprise 10 Feb 06:02

  • Big Blue says Power7 will make world smarter

    It's not a chip. It's a system

    If you believe that putting sensors on all manner of infrastructure systems, gathering telemetry on them in real time, and automating how they perform to the nth degree will all make the world a better place, you're well suited to a job at IBM selling its vision of a Smarter Planet - and some Power7 servers. The top brass of …

    Enterprise 10 Feb 06:02

  • Morse ups profits on flat sales

    Not all bad

    Morse Group failed to grow revenue in the six months ended 31 December, but did manage a big jump in profits. Revenue was £107.6m versus £107.5m last year. But profit before tax was £4.1m compared to £2.2m in the second half of 2008. Ebitda was up 94 per cent to £4.6m. Morse made an operating profit of £4.1m against a £2.7m …

    IT Channel 10 Feb 08:51

  • It's on: Micron is buying Numonyx

    He's bought everyone of us, NAND for everyone of us

    As NAND process geometries shrink, so too does the number of suppliers. That number is decreasing by another one as Micron agrees to buy Numonyx for $1.27bn in an all-stock deal. The deal has been speculated about for weeks as the two, in a flash parable of the talents, pursued their different courses. Micron has been getting …

    Enterprise 10 Feb 10:22

  • Microsoft genuinely chuffed as judge drops WGA case

    Advantage - Redmond

    Microsoft has claimed victory in a long-running lawsuit brought against the software giant over its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) scheme, after a US judge dismissed the case. Late last week the judge in the District Court for the Western District of Washington dropped the case with prejudice, which means both the defendant …

    Software & Security 10 Feb 10:26

  • Bumper Patch Tuesday tackles multiple Windows flaws

    Dirty baker's dozen

    Microsoft has released 13 bulletins, covering 26 vulnerabilities, as part of a bumper Patch Tuesday. All supported versions of Windows will need patching, though Vista and Win 7 (three critical updates) are less exposed than XP and Windows 2000 shops (five critical fixes). Three of the bulletins are particularly severe and …

    Software & Security 10 Feb 10:33

  • Seagate serves up 600GB Savvio 10K

    Three platters, Fibre Channel sets out enterprise stall

    Seagate has a fourth generation Savvio 2.5-inch drive boasting 600GB, three platters and both SAS and Fibre Channel interfaces. The Savvio 10K.4 is an enterprise drive for storage arrays that, like the preceding 10K.3, has a 6Gbit/s SAS interface, with dual-port communication. But it also has a 4GBit/s Fibre Channel one, a …

    Enterprise 10 Feb 11:14

  • SONAS offering from IBM covers much ground

    Scale-Out NAS - again

    IBM has launched Scale-Out Network-Attached Storage (SONAS) from one of the far corners of its widespread storage empire - out of the (big) blue, you might say. News came via a tweet from an Ideas International analyst, Chris Ober: not your usual IBM product announcement method. There's an IBM web page here, but there's no …

    Enterprise 10 Feb 14:10

  • Microsoft volume licensing site serves up customer details

    Time to enlist Beetle Juice?

    Microsoft’s woes over at its revamped but pretty flaky Volume Licensing Service Center website continued today, after the firm inadvertently let slip the wrong subscription information to at least one of its customers. Many MS volume licence users have complained about Redmond’s lacklustre efforts to get its VLSC website fully …

    Software & Security 10 Feb 15:49

  • Microsoft erases Windows 8 optimism

    Windows Vista 8 'wow'

    Microsoft has apparently killed a Microsoft employee's blog posting eulogizing its planned successor to Windows 7. The MSDN post that was here and has been cached here, according to Microsoft Kitchen, was thin on details but provided possibly the first hint of how Microsoft plans to pitch the successor to Windows 7. The take …

    Software & Security 10 Feb 20:24

  • Dell servers block un-Dell HDDs

    No more warnings

    Dell is barring the use of non-Dell-qualified hard drives on its newest PowerEdge servers, after years of allowing such drives to be installed with only a warning. Yesterday, the company confirmed the change on a mailing list run by the Dell Linux Engineering team. On the mailing list, a poster asked why his 11th generation …

    Enterprise 10 Feb 22:31

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