26th July 2010 Archive

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IBM splits with Solaris 10 on x64

Oracle severs another OEM deal?

IBM will soon cease to sell Solaris 10 on x64 machines. Oracle, it seems, has decided that companies who have their own Unix iron can't peddle Solaris on their x64 tin. Oracle yanked Hewlett-Packard's Solaris OEM contract, which allows it to distribute Solaris 10 and sell support contracts for it on its ProLiant servers, and …

Enterprise 26 Jul 02:57
SanDisk CEO to ride off into the sunset

Goodbye Eli Harari. Hello Sanjay

SanDisk founder, CEO and chairman Eli Harari is to retire at the end of 2010, after 22 years with the firm. It's a planned event with the replacement CEO being Harari's co-founder, Sanjay Mehrotra, who is currently SanDisk's president and chief operating officer. He gets the CEO's office on January 1, 2011 and was promoted to …

Enterprise 26 Jul 10:19
Successful desktop virtualization

Regcast Difficult, but not impossible

Desktop virtualization: it's complex, it's controversial, it's hard to budget. It is, however, easy to make a mess of it. And if you do get it wrong, every single person in your company will want to know why. Mess this one up and you’ll be lucky if they let you project manage buying toner cartridges for the rest of your career …

Enterprise 26 Jul 14:01
Hitachi Data Systems: A storage giant lost in translation

I just don't know what I'm supposed to be

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) is the only world-class Japanese storage company, with its USP-V high-end enterprise arrays and AMS mid-range systems. Its fellow Japanese corporations, Fujitsu and NEC, are under-performers in comparison. In fact, the USP-V arrays are so good that HP OEMs them and Sun did resell them. Acer OEMs a …

Enterprise 26 Jul 14:05
EC launches formal probes into IBM's mainframe biz

Emulators and maintenance services

Antitrust authorities at the European Commission have been listening to clone mainframe seller T3 Technologies' cries after IBM ate and killed clone mainframe maker Platform Solutions a few years back. Complaints from TurboHercules, a supplier of a mainframe hardware emulator for x64 servers that IBM refuses to license software …

Enterprise 26 Jul 14:33
Dell's fraud settlement explodes PC market myths

Analysis Getting sick on cookie jars and bags of chips

Even us jaded hacks, who think we've seen everything in the business, can find our chins hitting the trackpad. So it is with the Dell legal settlement last week. It may have a familiar ring to it, as it concerns a kind of business arrangement almost 20 years old - but don't let that fool you. It's the scale of the amounts …

IT Channel 26 Jul 15:09
Cray ships first massively parallel XE6

Baby super exec exits

Cray has staked most of its financial 2010 on the Baker XE6 massively parallel supercomputers and their Gemini XE interconnect. With the first of a wave of multi-cabinet systems now out the door, Cray - and its investors - have some hope of making the numbers for 2010. Cray launched the XE interconnect in May, and shipped a …

Enterprise 26 Jul 22:51