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22nd February 2010 Archive

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  • Cray swings profit on Q4 revenue dive

    Thanks, Uncle Sam

    Supercomputer maker Cray finished out 2009 better than many might have expected it to do, reversing to a modest $3m profit on a 43 per cent revenue decline to $88.3m in the fourth quarter ended in December. It is hard to blame your biggest customer for cutting into your sales and profits, and Cray came as close as it dared to …

    Enterprise 22 Feb 06:14

  • HP at storage crossroads

    Comment Plans to move downmarket, away from external storage

    In the rosy glow of better quarterly results from HP, one forlorn story of mediocre performance repeated itself. StorageWorks declined 3 per cent and EVA revenues fell 5 per cent year on year. Shortly after Mark Hurd became HP's CEO in 2005, the StorageWorks division was in a mess, with a history of what we called embarassing …

    Enterprise 22 Feb 08:02

  • Iron Mountain thinking about a long, cool drink of Mimosa

    Comment Archiving to the rusty mountain cloud

    The Iron Mountain repository could be getting an email and file archiving software wrapper with strong rumours that Iron Mountain plans to buy Mimosa. Iron Mountain is a paper and tape records repository company, famously started to store mushrooms in an old iron-ore mine. Then it branched out into what became its core …

    Enterprise 22 Feb 09:47

  • Google digs 6-foot hole for Gears

    It's all about HTML5 now, darlink

    Google wonks have ended development of the company's Gears application platform, less than three years since its release. The Gears API had been created by Mountain View as something of an elixir for developers who wanted to support offline access of their apps. However, Google's allegiance has now shifted to the HTML5 API …

    Software & Security 22 Feb 12:47

  • Overland's Nasdaq market cap gap trap map

    $12m extra funding shows the route out of trouble

    Back from the dead? It's a little too soon to say, but Overland Storage - threatened with costly ejection by Nasdaq because its market capitalisation was under $15m - has got a $12m stock issue to put that threat into touch. It's not a done Nasdaq deal yet, but the outcome seems pretty certain. CEO and president Eric Kelly …

    Enterprise 22 Feb 13:19

  • Siemens' IT workers ballot for strike action at Beeb

    Iced pay packets cold-shouldered by disgruntled staff

    Siemens IT staff working at the BBC are mulling possible strike action over a planned pay freeze by the tech firm. Bectu said it was sending out ballot papers to members today, in which the broadcasting union recommends industrial action. The ballot will close on 19 March and followed Siemens' decision to bring in a pay …

    Enterprise 22 Feb 13:57

  • Double-Take disaster recovery takes to the clouds

    Up sh*t creek? Try our paddle

    Server systems can now be protected against failure with Double-Take replication to servers in Amazon's cloud. Double-Take provides replication software to copy a local physical or virtual server's disk writes to a remote server so that, should the local server fail, the remote one can be started up with up-to-date data. Dean …

    Enterprise 22 Feb 14:02

  • IBM flicks out HS22V Xeon blade

    Sharpened for virtualization

    IBM has launched a new Xeon-based blade server for BladeCenter boxes that it says is tuned specifically to support virtualization hypervisors that in turn run virtual Linux or Windows instances. What IBM means mostly is that the box has gobs of memory and fast and small flash drives for storage. The single-wide, full-height …

    Enterprise 22 Feb 15:25

  • Zmanda hooks Tivoli cop into MySQL

    Open source backup glue

    Open source vendor Zmanda is adding hooks into its MySQL database backup software for shops using IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager to mastermind the policies. The company on Monday unfurled a new feature for Zmanda Recovery Manager called — get ready for some unwieldily precision here —Tivoli Storage Manager Option for Zmanda …

    Enterprise 22 Feb 17:01

  • AMD's 'Magny-Cours' Opterons surface on eBay

    Four 12-core CPUs. Yours for only $7,700

    If you can't wait until the end of March or so to get your hands on the dozen-core "ys" Opteron 6100 processors due from Advanced Micro Devices, then some cagey system builders have a deal for you out on eBay. Oakville Mehlville Services, a service provider based in St Louis, Missouri, has put four of the Socket G34 processors …

    PC Builder 22 Feb 18:04

  • Iron Mountain downs its Mimosa

    $112m buy

    Our sources were right. Iron Mountain has gone ahead and bought Mimosa Systems and its NearPoint email, file, and SharePoint archiving software. The price is a cool $112m, the high-end of our suggested range, giving Mimosa's venture cap funders a tidy profit on their roughly $66m investment and indicating that this was no …

    Enterprise 22 Feb 20:42

  • Microsoft ties SharePoint into application-virtualization play

    Office 2010 opener

    Microsoft's application virtualization software - App-V - has been updated to fully support the up-coming next edition of Office. On Monday, the company delivered App-V 4.6, the first release of its application virtualization software engineered - it claimed - to work closely with Office. App-V is a component of Microsoft's …

    Enterprise 22 Feb 22:46

  • Google's MapReduce patent - no threat to stuffed elephants

    Hadoop will keep its head

    In mid-January, Google won a patent for MapReduce, the distributed data crunching platform that underpins its globe-spanning online infrastructure. And that means there's at least a question mark hanging over Hadoop, the much-hyped open source platform that helps drive Yahoo!, Facebook, Microsoft's Bing, and an ever-expanding …

    IT Channel 22 Feb 22:49

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