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15th July 2010 Archive

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  • Neon Software sells cut-down zPrime for IMS

    Accelerate flatfile mainframe databases for a buck

    IBM's System z11 mainframes are just around the corner, and Neon Software, the maker of the zPrime tool for offloading work from expensive to cheap engines on Big Blue's mainframes, has to do something to get the attention of mainframers. How does $1 for a license for tweaked zPrime tool that lets it accelerate IMS flatfile …

    Enterprise 15 Jul 06:02

  • Intel and Micron team up for flash fab

    New NAND chip plant

    Intel and Micron will start building a new fabrication plant for NAND flash chips by the end of the year, according to a DigiTimes report. Toshiba will have a new flash fab coming online in Japan in early 2011, and building should start this month. Samsung also has a new fab in South Korea coming online next year. Flash fabs …

    Enterprise 15 Jul 08:42

  • NTT spends £2bn on DiData

    Reseller giant turning Japanese

    NTT, the Japanese telco, has bought Dimension Data, the South African but London-listed reseller group. NTT is offering £2.1bn, or £1.20 a share, for the company. The cash offer has already been accepted by directors, Venfin DD Holdings Limited and Allan Gray who together represent 52 per cent of issued shares. NTT is …

    IT Channel 15 Jul 09:49

  • 1.5TB 2.5-inch drives

    By the end of the year

    You can't rely on disk drive manufactures to tell you much at all about new higher-capacity drives coming our way, but you can get hints from their OEMs. ProStor CEO Frank Herbist recently gave out a loud one. ProStor makes removable RDX disk drives, 2.5-inch drives inside a rugged case, and the InfiniVault RDX autoloader and …

    Enterprise 15 Jul 10:04

  • NHS loses massive Microsoft licensing rebate

    World's largest licensing deal ditched

    Software licensing in the National Health Service is about to get a lot more complicated, and a lot more expensive. Back in 2004 the Office of Government Commerce signed a massive deal with Microsoft to provide all desktop software within the NHS. This followed some very high-level lobbying from both Bill Gates and Steve …

    Enterprise 15 Jul 10:49

  • Torrent sites: Here today, gone tomorrow and no one even cares

    Brein orders pirates to 'clog off!', TorrentFreak goes into meltdown

    Dutch anti-piracy group Brein claimed last week to have closed down 422 torrent sites in the first half of this year, but shockingly* nobody actually noticed until today. TorrentFreak belatedly reported that it had failed to read Brein’s press release, dated 8 July, and the freetard-loving site apologised to its readers for …

    Enterprise 15 Jul 15:11

  • Dell OEMs server management from Microsoft

    Systems Center Essentials 2010, integrated and cheaper

    If you use Dell PowerEdge servers in conjunction with Microsoft's Windows operating system, Dell is going to make your life a little bit easier while also saving you some dough. Like its peers in the x64 server racket, Dell has service processors and box management tools to manage its PowerEdge rack and tower servers and the …

    Enterprise 15 Jul 15:54

  • Cloud fluffer ready to lighten Microsoft's load

    Rackspace talks private Azure

    Web-hosting giant Rackspace could be among the first to deliver private versions of Microsoft's Azure cloud, free of Redmond's control. Rackspace has had discussions with Microsoft to run Azure in its own data centers, the company's told The Reg. Already a Microsoft hosting and cloud partner, Rackspace believes the world is …

    Enterprise 15 Jul 18:47

  • NZ government makes software 'unpatentable' (for now)

    Future guidelines to address embedded code

    The New Zealand government has decided to push through the country's contentious new Patent Bill without making any amendments to it, thereby making software "unpatentable". However, NZ's commerce minister Simon Power noted that the country's Intellectual Property Office would draft new guidelines once the Bill has passed the …

    Software & Security 15 Jul 19:04

  • So long then, Windows 2000

    Dead man walking in Memphis

    Windows NT 4.0 made Microsoft an operating system player for file servers and crushed NetWare, but it was Windows 2000 Server and Advanced Server that stormed the walls of the glasshouse and smashed enough windows to actually get inside and start taking over the joint. And now, it is dead. At least as far as Microsoft is …

    Software & Security 15 Jul 19:21

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