7th April 2010 Archive

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Friends of Ubuntu join hands for cloud watcher

Eye on Koalas eating Eucalyptus

Ubuntu friends GroundWork Open Source and Eucalyptus have unveiled a new tool for managing and monitoring virtual servers and software that span Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and similar IT fluffiness floating inside your own data center. Eucalyptus offers an open-source platform for mimicking the Amazon EC2 setup behind your …

Enterprise 7 Apr 2010, 00:33
Sacked Fujitsu boss threatens to sue

Won't go quietly

The ex-president of Fujitsu, Kuniaki Nozoe is now threatening to sue the IT services giant, and asking it to sue some of its own executives. Nozoe is suing for damages and for losses suffered by the company. Fujitsu said its auditors would consider the request within the next 60 days, the BBC reports. Nozoe has been involved …

Enterprise 7 Apr 2010, 09:08
Quantum scales up Scalar tape library

Releases i6000

Quantum has moved its tape library range up-market by bolting four more expansion cabinets onto its existing top-end i6000 library and adding LTO5 support, bumping maximum raw capacity up to just under 8PB from the i2000's 2.8PB. It effectively replaces the i2000. The maximum number of drives stays the same as the i2000, at 96 …

Enterprise 7 Apr 2010, 09:35
OCZ prods Z-Drive to go faster

2TB and upgradable flash modules

OCZ has boosted the speed and doubled the capacity of its solid state Z-Drive as well as making it upgradable with interchangeable NAND modules. The existing Z-Drive 1 is a PCI-e connected 256GB-1TB solid state drive (SSD) with good performance: up to 800GB/sec read, 750GB/sec write and a 500MB/sec sustained write speed for …

Enterprise 7 Apr 2010, 11:16
US weather meisters buy mini Cray

Getting a foot back into an old door

Supercomputer maker Cray has managed to get the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, to take delivery of a Cray XT5m minisuper, getting its foot back in the door of a facility that helped put Cray on the map. In 1976 NCAR took delivery of the very first Cray-1A vector super designed by Seymour …

Enterprise 7 Apr 2010, 15:29
Microsoft's HPC Server 2008 R2 goes beta 2

Matches Linux MPI, snatches Win 7 cycles

Microsoft is a supercomputing wannabe, and with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2, the company will be coming at the Linux-dominated HPC community from a few oblique angles that play to Microsoft's - not the Linux community's - strengths. With the second beta of HPC Server 2008 R2, Microsoft is allowing for supercomputer clusters to …

Enterprise 7 Apr 2010, 21:55
IBM widens data analytics fleet

Smartie boxes multiply

IBM has expanding its lineup of appliances for data analytics. Big Blue's Systems and Technology Group, which designs and makes servers, and its Software Group, which codes systems software for those machines as well as for those from Big Blue's competitors, are broadening the cross-group Smart Analytic Systems for real-time …

Enterprise 7 Apr 2010, 22:09