10th March 2010 Archive

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Floating IT lab mimics multi-tiered networks

Is it real? Or is it Skytap?

Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network topologies on its floating interwebs service. With the new tools, the company says, Skytap users can automate the …

Enterprise 10 Mar 01:38
Sepaton in anti-Data Domain pitch

Dual-node MS2 cluster

Criticising the pain of single-silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system. The MS2 is described as rack-ready and has from 36 to 192TB of raw capacity, meaning 30 to 160TB of usable capacity. Data ingest can occur at 1,200MB/sec. It comes with …

Enterprise 10 Mar 07:02
WD targets Win XP users to ease 4KB drive upgrades

Sector inspector

Western Digital is to help Windows XP users more easily make the transition to so-called '4K' hard drive technology, the new standard for basic drive formatting. Hard drive makers segment each data-storage platter into small, addressable units called sectors. For years, the sector size was set to 512 bytes - a standard set by …

Reg Hardware 10 Mar 11:24
Saviour likely for titsup training firm

Advent students still waiting for a saviour

Administrators for Advent Computer Training, and its sister school for plumbers, believe they have found buyers for the company. In fact they've found two buyers for the Hagley-based firms and got cooperation from a major creditor. The collapse left many students out of pocket because they had paid up-front for Microsoft …

Enterprise 10 Mar 13:44
MoJ halves consultancy spending

Don't need no good advice

The Ministry of Justice reduced its consultancy spending from £20.7m in 2007-08 to £10.5m in 2008-09, despite the failure of other departments to meet government cost-cutting targets. According to a parliamentary written answer from Lord Bach, consultancy and technology company Accenture suffered from a particularly big fall. …

Enterprise 10 Mar 15:04
Citrix tunes XenApp for Windows Server R2

App-V virtual embrace

Citrix has unveiled XenApp 6 after re-architecting the product from the ground up to take full advantage of Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2. While Citrix Systems is busy mixing and matching its various application, server, and PC virtualization products, XenApp - formerly known as Presentation Server and the software that …

Enterprise 10 Mar 19:44