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  • IBM services help complicate cloud's horizon

    Prey you got some systems nerds

    Cloud computing is supposed to make IT easy. But if it was easy, no one would be able to make any money on the idea. As it is, companies like IBM are trying to make money twice with clouds: first by selling preconfigured clouds for inside the corporate firewall and then - you guessed it - selling services to help setup and …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 01:24

  • Juniper dangles $50m carrot over Junos

    Come all ye partners

    Juniper Networks is dangling a $50 million venture capital carrot over startups willing to focus on building software and applications for the Junos operating system. The $50m VC fund expands on Juniper's recent efforts to push its network application platform, Junos Space to third-party developers, including the creation of a …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 06:02

  • Netezza to bake analytics into appliances

    Big math chews big data

    Data warehousing appliance–maker Netezza wants to set its TwinFins loose on data analytics, thereby doubling the usefulness of the boxes and positioning them to better compete with alternatives from IBM, Oracle, and Teradata. The TwinFin appliances marry X64-based blade servers and home-grown accelerator chips to a heavily …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 07:02

  • Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx to Facebook and Twitter you

    Five-year bling plan

    PCs running Ubuntu will be getting more social thanks to changes that will set the popular Linux distro's look and feel for the next five years. Lucid Lynx, due this April, will bring social applications like Twitter and Facebook directly into the software, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has said in an interview here. …

    Software & Security 24 Feb 2010, 08:02

  • IBM plugs Netcool into Juniper's Space

    Big Blue service management for Junos

    Juniper Networks is reaching into IBM's service management portfolio to add some oomph to its new Junos Space network application platform. Big Blue said on Tuesday that it will license its Tivoli Netcool/Ominibus and Network Manager technology for Junos Space. The pact was announced during IBM's Pulse 2010 conference in Las …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 09:02

  • Copan assets scooped up by SGI

    SGI refuge for battered MAID

    The battered MAID that is Copan has found a refuge inside SGI. For the amazingly low sum of $2m SGI gets most of the assets and assumes a few of Copan's liabilities. It will keep Copan's Longmont, Colorado, office and hire some of Copan's staff but will not pay off any of Copan's debts. SGI will use Copan's Massive Array of …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 09:14

  • Logica hits targets for 2009

    Low targets admittedly, but hey

    Logica has hit financial targets for the year - revenues are down three per cent pro forma or up three per cent on an actual basis. The public sector specialist saw outsourcing revenues grow nine per cent but this was offset by a 10 per cent fall in consulting and professional services. Unaudited revenue for the year ended 31 …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 10:03

  • VDI: Desktop problem obliterator?

    Comment Not without lots of work and plenty risk

    Desktop virtualisation isn't a panacea that will slay infections and slash costs - it's a problem-filled journey that may not even solve the problems you started out wanting to fix. That's one lesson attendees at IDC's Desktop Virtualisation Conference 2010 in London learnt. The easy desktop virtualisation pitch is that you …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 11:33

  • Tandberg goes atomic on NAS

    Dedupe, iSCSI and NAS, oh my

    Tandberg Data has announced a deduping Atom-powered NAS/iSCSI box for its channel along with deduplication software. The DPS2000 is a 4-bay storage box in table-top or rackmount enclosure form. It's powered by an Intel Atom processor and the Linux software provides concurrent iSCSI block access as well as the CIFS, NFS and AFP …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 11:44

  • IBM diligently adds mainframe dedupe

    Let's not get physical

    IBM mainframes can now send backed-up data to a deduping virtual tape library instead of physical tape. Big Blue has combining its Diligent deduplication and virtual tape library functionality in the TS7680 ProtecTIER deduplication gateway. No changes are needed to backup processes on on the Z/OS mainframe but some …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 14:04

  • HP-Cisco split allows competitors to pick up pieces

    Force10 hopes to benefit from wind of change

    Fighting is ongoing in the aftermath of Cisco stripping HP of its favoured partner status. We even heard, inaccurately as it happened, that HP has discontinued the Cisco switch for the C series blade chassis. Support of Cisco gear in HP accounts is an opportunity as far as Comtek is concerned. It provides IT repair services …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 15:17

  • HP puts own man in charge of ex-EDS

    Keeping it simple

    HP today stamped its authority on day-to-day operations at the former EDS by replacing the services unit's boss Joe Eazor with its own man, Tom Iannotti. Iannotti, previously managing director of HP Americas and Technology Solutions Group, will now run the group's global outsourcing operation, HP Enterprise Services. The unit …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 15:48

  • Gartner report card gives high marks to x64, blades

    Unix, Sun, Eastern Europe? Not so much

    After Dell and Hewlett-Packard reported their financial results for their most recent fiscal quarters last week, the box counters at Gartner and IDC could tweak their models to figure out how the server makers stacked up in the final quarter of 2009. Gartner got its grading done first and handed out report cards today. As we …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 17:34

  • Microsoft aims thin clients at the classroom

    Updated Windows Terminal Services reborn

    With today's talk of application and desktop virtualization, it's easy to forget there's another, older way to deliver software in a controlled way to resource-constrained PCs: thin-clients. You remember thin client computing: Citirx, Microsoft's Citrix-backed Windows Terminal Services, Sun Microsystems' Sun Ray, and …

    PC Builder 24 Feb 2010, 20:37

  • Cray inks $45m super pact with DoD

    So, three Bakers enter the Pentagon...

    Supercomputer maker Cray has staked a lot of its financial 2010 on its future "Baker" massively parallel Opteron-based servers and their new "Gemini" interconnect. And today, 2010 got off to a good start as Cray announced that the US Department of Defense has forked over more than $45m in tax dollars to drop three new Baker …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 21:57

  • HyTrust nets $10.5m in funding

    Cisco Systems now a good buddy

    HyTrust, a startup that came out of stealth mode last April with a security appliance to lock down and manage virtual servers running on VMware's ESX Server hypervisor, has two new best friends: server wannabe and networking giant Cisco Systems and venture capitalist Granite Ventures. Those two companies, along with existing …

    Enterprise 24 Feb 2010, 22:18

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