17th March 2010 Archive

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Emulex gets NetApp FCoE blessing

Follows on from HP

NetApp has blessed the use of Emulex's OneConnect Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), a huge tier 1 storage vendor endorsement for the firm. The company has been lagging behind competitor QLogic in getting storage vendor endorsements for its CNA when running FCoE and 10GbitE. It won HP …

Enterprise 17 Mar 10:03
Ellison's storage Pillar sits at fork in the road

Comment Finance, founding and two choices

Larry Ellison founded Pillar Data on the premise it would become the next EMC or NetApp, and go through an IPO or be bought. On its way there it sees a new system that could replace 100 NetApp filers coming by 2012. This perspective on Pillar was given by its CEO and CFO at a customer summit in Phoenix, Arizona on March 10. …

Enterprise 17 Mar 11:06
WD adds 1TB portable Mac drive

My Passport SE

Western Digital has extended its portable drive line for the Mac with 750GB and 1TB models. WD's My Passport line of portable 2.5-inch hard drives connect by USB 2.0 to its hosts, Macs in this case. The My Passport SE is the higher capacity variant, with the high-end My Passport Studio adding FireWire 400 and 800 connectivity …

Enterprise 17 Mar 11:15
Xiotech throws blocks at hypervisors

Extends VirtualView API

Xiotech has got an IAS architecture to embed its storage building blocks better in virtual server environments with snazzy VirtualView automated storage provisioning and management software. IAS stands for Integrated Application Storage, and the base pitch is that existing controller-based storage is too complex. Storage …

Enterprise 17 Mar 13:34
MS virtualisation bug dodges defences

Redmond downplays virtual PC vuln

A newly discovered flaw in Microsoft's virtualisation technologies creates a potential mechanism for hackers to sidestep security defences. The unpatched vulnerability creates a possible route around security threat mitigation technologies such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP), Safe Exception Handlers (SafeSEH) and Address …

Enterprise 17 Mar 13:55
AMD: OEMs primed for Opteron 6100s

Tier one server makers MIA

This being the week when Intel is rolling out its six-core Xeon 5600 processors for the workhorse two-socket server market, it's a little tough for rival Advanced Micro Devices to get some attention. But the "Westmere-EP" hubbub is starting to die down, and AMD thought this was a good time to remind everyone that it has its own …

Enterprise 17 Mar 15:07
Google Apps punts kill-Microsoft-Exchange-now tool

When 25 million emails go bump in the night

While Microsoft has been failing to outfox Google in the web search and ad game, Google has - apparently - swiped a few of Redmond's customers away from MS Office. The Mountain View Chocolate Factory gloated on its corporate blog that 25 million people worldwide had switched to Google Apps in the past year. In a separate blog …

Software & Security 17 Mar 16:55