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11th February 2010 Archive

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  • Can Sun's GlassFish turn on master Oracle?

    More like IBM than you know

    In Hand of Orlac, a plastic surgeon replaces the crushed hands of a pianist with those of an executed murder. What at first is a godsend for the ruined musician may in truth be an agent of its former owner's insidious will, compelling its inheritor to murder his own father. We wonder if that works for corporations. Will the …

    Enterprise 11 Feb 07:02

  • Red Hat projects to seed cloudy IT

    Raining support money (someday)

    Let's get one thing straight. We don't like the term cloud computing any more than you do Of course, Richard Stallman doesn't like when we call it Linux rather than GNU/Linux. He's gotta live with Linux. And, well, we've gotta live with cloud computing. It's not going away. Commercial Linux and middleware distributor Red Hat …

    Enterprise 11 Feb 07:02

  • Chip makers set for 'fab-lite' future?

    ISSCC The fate of the mega chip corp.

    By 2025, vertically integrated megacorps such as Intel will be endangered species. Or not. On Tuesday evening, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, the fate of such integrated device manufactures (IDMs) was debated by a group of industry heavyweights during a wide-ranging panel …

    PC Builder 11 Feb 08:02

  • Unisys parts with server chief

    No explanation

    Unisys has parted ways with senior vice president Rich Marcello, the man who ran its Technology, Consulting, and Integration Solutions business unit. Yesterday, in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said that Marcello was no longer in his position after signing a termination agreement. A …

    Enterprise 11 Feb 08:02

  • Isilon flashes up NAS clusters

    Metadata in SSD

    Isilon, which makes scale-out NAS clusters up to 10PB in size, is turbo-charging them by adding NAND flash to speed metadata operations. The company's S-Series and X-Series product lines will have STEC flash drives added to hold file metadata, with user data files stored on hard disk drives as before. This will enable Isilon …

    Enterprise 11 Feb 11:05

  • Aging telco calls DWP, gets £237m payout

    DWP extends BT network deal

    The Department for Work and Pensions has added another three years to its contract with BT for networked IT services Under the new deal, worth a minimum of £237m, BT will continue to provide converged IP networks and telephony, plus a range of conferencing services. It will apply to a number of organisations under the DWP …

    Enterprise 11 Feb 11:18

  • Intel says warranties evaporate when kit resold

    It's in the small print - but where?

    If you're thinking of buying second-hand computer equipment off eBay, you'd better make sure it doesn't have "Intel inside" because – and this is official – Intel regards re-selling its equipment as voiding any warranty. The example we have is an 80GB solid state disk drive, brand new in July last year. A customer bought it …

    IT Channel 11 Feb 12:35

  • Promise ventures into Jasper Forest

    Thumbs up to storage Nehalem

    Promise Technology is going to use Intel's Jasper Forest processors in forthcoming storage array products. The Jasper Forest enhanced Nehalem is now called the C5500 or C3500 processor. There are one, two and four core options, with 23 to 85 watt power needs, available in uni-processor and dual-processor configurations (single …

    Enterprise 11 Feb 13:03

  • SGI spins up Cyclone HPC cloud

    Altix UV super first look

    Try it, then rent it or buy it. That's the new mantra from supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics this morning as it launches its own supercomputing on demand offering, dubbed Cyclone. If cloud computing means virtualized server instances, then technically speaking - as if SGI could speak any other way - the Cyclone service is …

    Enterprise 11 Feb 17:37

  • Juniper pays $169m to settle backdating suit

    Births Junos developer ops

    Juniper Networks has agreed to pay a massive $169 million fee to settle a class-action lawsuit with New York Clity pension funds and other investors over a backdated stock options scandal. The settlement will be major blow to Juniper's bottom line. In a regulatory filing Wednesday, the company said it expects the charge will …

    Enterprise 11 Feb 19:37

  • OpenOffice 3.2 is on tap

    Community celebrates tin anniversary

    OpenOffice 3.2 is available for download. Improvements in the latest release of the open source office suite include faster start-ups, improved compatibility with other office programs, and several new features (with special attention to the Calc spreadsheet program.) At the same time, the OpenOffice.org team is celebrating …

    Software & Security 11 Feb 21:55

  • Dell acquires SMB systems babysitter Kace

    Fills Perot gaps

    Dell says it will purchase Kace Networks, a maker of systems management appliances, which the vendor hopes will reel in more midsize business sales. The acquisition - for an undisclosed amount - is expected to close during Dell's first fiscal quarter. Kace's flagship product is the Kbox line of appliances, which target IT …

    Enterprise 11 Feb 23:35

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