5th March 2010 Archive

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HP pushes converged IT for all

Flat-pack kit with packaged services bolted on

The normal sales pitch is that converged IT stacks like HP's Matrix and Cisco's gig with VMware and EMC are for enterprises - the big boys that will buy them in their thousands. But HP says its channel, which it's pushing towards converged IT, is finding that medium enterprises like the idea too. Kevin Matthews, HP's UK …

IT Channel 5 Mar 12:01
STEC becalmed as Fusion-io streaks ahead

Comment EMC over-ordering breaks STEC's run

Conditions are variable in the solid state drive (SSD) world, with STEC lagging while Fusion-io has the wind in its sails. STEC makes SSDs that replace fast hard disk drives (HDD), fitting in HDD slots in storage arrays, and boosting the I/O rates much better than having lots of short-stroked, fast-spinning Fibre Channel …

Enterprise 5 Mar 12:18
David Atherton on football, why mags beat Google, and what he's doing next

Interview Part 2 'One of Britain's richest vs Dabs? No contest'

This is part two of a two-part interview with Dabs founder David Atherton. Part one is here. David Atherton, the multimillionaire founder of Dabs.com, is heading back into the technology industry and sees electronic security and Facebook games as strong bets for his money. Last week he made his first industry appearance since …

IT Channel 5 Mar 13:02
Think software patching is a hassle? You're not alone

Help on the way

Underscoring a barrier to remaining secure online, the average Windows PC user has to install a software update every five days from 22 different providers, according to vulnerability tracking service Secunia. The figure is based on the results of more than 2 million users of Secunia's PSI, or Personal Software Inspector, a …

Software & Security 5 Mar 18:48
Gartner says world will buy 10.5m tablets in 2010

Dons rose colored glasses for PC forecast

The global PC business is apparently bouncier than the analysts at Gartner had been projecting only a few months ago, and now, they're predicting that PC shipments will rise by 19.7 per cent in 2010 to 366.1 million machines. With price competition and a trend toward cheaper machines, however, it is going to get harder for PC …

PC Builder 5 Mar 19:06
Microsoft unplugs middling Windows server

Windows EBS on the way out

Microsoft will halt development of its mid-market oriented Windows Essential Business Server software bundle, as the company bets on "cloud computing" rather than lump licensing to woo penny-pinching IT markets. The EBS package, which combines Windows Server 2008, Exchange 2007 and server management tools, will be discontinued …

Software & Security 5 Mar 21:18