AMD to pitch Fusion chip at netbooks, ultrathins
'Bobcat'-based CPUs out in 2011
Claims that AMD has a some kind of Damascene conversion and is to finally target the netbook sector directly are, frankly, nonsense.… | Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:33:57 GMT |
Super Micro to launch AMD render cloud
A great game console in the sky
The conceptual render cloud that Advanced Micro Devices was showing off a little more than a year ago at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show is going commercial this year.… | Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:07:28 GMT |
US comp-boffins claim fix for multicore 'concurrency bugs'
Pleasurable programming for plentiful processors
American computer boffins say they have developed new software which makes programming of multi-processor machines much easier.… | Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:24:41 GMT |
Swedes serve up flicks with KVM
Cisco blades, minus VMware and EMC
Everybody is talking up the idea of integrated stacks these days, but some customers just won't listen. They think they can just pick and choose any technology they want, like in the old days.… | Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:02:02 GMT |
Intel's redemos six-core Gulftown
Gamers watch and wait
Intel has given developers another peek at its upcoming Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor.… | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:04:32 GMT |
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.… | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:44:32 GMT |
Voltaire brings InfiniBand switch to the masses
Accelerators speed up cluster work
InfiniBand and Ethernet switch maker Voltaire this morning rolled out its Grid Director 4200, a midrange 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand switch that shoots the gap between its entry and high-end switches, and that is the product that Voltaire expects companies to buy as they adopt InfiniBand for database clustering and other HPC jobs.… | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:24:50 GMT |
Microsoft boffin scoops Turing Award
Hardware guru wins computing's 'Nobel prize'
A Microsoft researcher has received the Turing Award in recognition for his pioneering work in personal computing hardware and networking technology development.… | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:39:55 GMT |
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.… | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:24:57 GMT |
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.… | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:02:02 GMT |
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.… | Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:38:21 GMT |
Pillar juices flash drive box
Reliability boost roadmap
Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.… | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:18:18 GMT |
Cisco 'forever changes internet' with... a router
322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here
How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.… | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:45:17 GMT |
Terracotta's Ehcache back-ends Hibernate
Web Sessions gets some tweaks, too
If you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, you have to keep improving your software to help it get more widely adopted among enterprise customers who get nervous if they don't hand over big wads of cash to someone to babysit the code. That's why Terracotta, a maker of systems programs that help Java applications scale, has made a number of acquisitions and has tweaked two key programs in its portfolio.… | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:31 GMT |
Android - the winning formula for tablets and netbooks?
It's the only game in town, says the maker of the other iPad
What might the iPad have been? Apple announced it as a Magical and Revolutionary Device, defining "an entirely new category". But it actually only addresses a small part of the yawning gap between mobile handsets and notebook computers, where there's still a lot of defining to be done. There's space there for dramatically different reimaginations of the iPhone, for counter-attacks from handset companies, and for diverse devices based on Google's Android.… | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:35:22 GMT |
Cisco promises to 'forever change the internet'
Stock jumps as rumors fly
Today will see Cisco making an announcement that it claims will "forever change the internet". The stock market certainly believed it, sending the IP giant's shares to their highest level in more than a year ($26.34) yesterday. Given Cisco's heritage and product strategy it has more likelihood than most of delivering on its claim, but remains tightlipped about the details - sparking rumors from a gigabit wholesale network to an extended wireless core play to a set-top box.… | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:09:08 GMT |
Tilera wins VC from Broadcom, Quanta, NTT
Cash for homegrown multicores
Last November, El Reg told you about how multicore chip maker Tilera was lining up its third round of venture capital funding, a $25m pile of cash that would include $10m from Taiwanese PC maker and server wannabe Quanta Computer. On Monday, when the funding finally closed, it turned out that chip maker Broadcom and the financing arm of Japanese telco NTT are also kicking in some dough.… | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:02:02 GMT |
Yellow Dog Linux licks CUDA
Nvidia GPUs sit up and bark
Remember Terra Soft and its Yellow Dog Linux for Power processors?… | Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:02:01 GMT |
Intel investigates after retailer sold fake CPUs
'Sochet' LGA not as good as real thing
Updated Intel says it's investigating the sale of fake desktop processors by online electronics retailer Newegg in a scandal that's prompting outrage among customers and recriminations among sellers.… | Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:03:51 GMT |
iSuppli: Semi recovery a 'false spring'
2010 revenues to barely exceed 2007
A consensus is evolving that the semiconductor industry is going to recover mightily in 2010. But the analysts at iSuppli want to remind everyone that things are only going to feel so good this year because they were so bad in late 2008 and through 2009.… | Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:52:17 GMT |
3PAR tiering faster than FAST
Supports STEC SSD too
Faster than EMC's FAST: you can order 3PAR's automatic data moving across storage tiers software right now. 3PAR is also adding solid state storage to its arrays.… | Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:02:02 GMT |
Fujitsu president was sacked, not sick
Dodgy dealing not doctor's note behind departure
Fujitsu has admitted that its ex-president Kuniaki Nozoe, who left the firm in September apparently due to ill health, was in fact sacked by the board of directors.… | Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:27:26 GMT |
IBM's Power7 pitch deconstructed
Big Blue polishes UNIX crown
Some of IBM's Power7 machines have been shipping for several weeks, and the high-end Power 770 and 780 boxes start shipping this coming week. Now, the sales pitching and smooth talking by IBM and its local business partners will begin. What, exactly, will that sales pitch be?… | Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:02:01 GMT |
Gartner says world will buy 10.5m tablets in 2010
Dons rose colored glasses for PC forecast
The global PC business is apparently bouncier than the analysts at Gartner had been projecting only a few months ago, and now, they're predicting that PC shipments will rise by 19.7 per cent in 2010 to 366.1 million machines.… | Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:06:12 GMT |
9TB in 20 minutes? Sign me up!
IBM hails 'breakthrough' algorithm
In an experiment IBM researchers used the fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world - a Blue Gene/P system at the Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany - to validate nine terabytes of data in less than 20 minutes, without compromising accuracy. Ordinarily, using the same system, this would take more than a day. Additionally, the process used just one percent of the energy that would typically be required.… | Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:57:32 GMT |
STEC becalmed as Fusion-io streaks ahead
EMC over-ordering breaks STEC's run
Comment Conditions are variable in the solid state drive (SSD) world, with STEC lagging while Fusion-io has the wind in its sails.… | Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:18:31 GMT |
More doubt tossed onto iPad numbers
Apple manufacturer denies claims
A second report has surfaced claiming Apple is experiencing spotty overseas production of the iPad, due for release later this month.… | Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:27:48 GMT |
Netezza squeezes out Q4 growth
Self-styled Oracle beater
Data warehousing and analytics appliance maker Netezza has closed out its fiscal 2010, and like many hardware and software vendors in the IT racket, the company's profits took a hit. Unlike many hardware suppliers, Netezza actually managed to get a tiny bump in sales in the quarter and for the year, despite the economic meltdown.… | Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:51:14 GMT |
NFC breathes new life into tombstones
A dead technology for dead customers
An American outfit has started selling RFID tags for embedding in headstones, making life easier for the next generation of the Time Team.… | Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:36:57 GMT |
Intel preps new Xeons for March 16 launch
AMD does a 48-core giveaway
The word on the street is that chip maker Intel will finally get around to launching its new Xeon processors on March 16, and AMD will follow up with its new Opterons sometime near the end of the month. Let the marketeering begin.… | Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:11:22 GMT |
Intel tightens up Westmere security
Promises wide open spaces in data centres
Intel will add additional security instructions to the Westmere server chips due later this month, the firm told journalists at Cebit today.… | Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:29:33 GMT |
NetApp models uplifting BRaaS
Getting together with Asigra
NetApp has produced a set of design guides for service providers, including a Backup and Recovery as a Service (BRaaS) offering with Asigra, and is looking for a sales uplift in this area.… | Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:26:01 GMT |
Asus will hit e-pad market this year
The iPad? That's the big iPhone, yeah?
Asus is working on multiple e-pad type devices which it hopes will exploit the shortcomings of Apple's iPad when they hit the market this year.… | Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:02:02 GMT |
Dell flogs its 'zero client'
PC-over-IP rolls into FX100 boxes
Dell has unveiled its first "zero client" device for enterprise customers who think traditional thin clients are fatty, fatty 2x4s.… The power of collaboration within unified communications
| Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:02:02 GMT |
DARPA asks you to cram petaflops super into single rack
To dream the ExtremeScale dream
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - the research and development arm of the US military - has issued a challenge to nerds, geeks, techies, and boffins to bid on how they would build a petaflops-scale system of nearly unimaginable energy efficiency and compactness. Oh, and the prospective system also needs to be mobile and require no special programming skills to use.… | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:36:54 GMT |
Google Research head dubs holy PageRank 'over-hyped'
Norvig mum on 'Caffeine' search shot
Google research head Peter Norvig says that the search giant's hallowed PageRank link-analysis algorithm is overrated. And always has been.… | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:36:13 GMT |
VMware to pony up $400m for buybacks
EMC to maintain 80% stake
In filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, virtualization juggernaut VMware said its board of directors had authorized a stock repurchase plan to allow the company to go out on Wall Street and buy back up to $400m in its class A shares between now and the end of 2011.… | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:35:42 GMT |
WD shipping consumer SSDs
Looking for silicon edge
Western Digital has started shipping consumer-focused solid-state drives (SSDs).… | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:02:02 GMT |
Overland Storage bags Barrall
Executive officer, sir
Overland Storage has appointed Geoff Barrall to an executive officer's position according to a financial filing.… | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:29:08 GMT |
Intel: Just 3,000 employees run Windows 7
And you should bin 4 year old PCs
Cebit Intel's CIO showed why it might take a while for Microsoft to make much of a dent in the XP-installed base yesterday as she urged the world to scrap any kit more than four years old.… | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:21:21 GMT |
Force10 Networks files for IPO
10 Gigabit yields 143.8 megabucks
Cisco Systems doesn't own the networking market. It just thinks it does. In reality, Cisco's shareholders have a large piece of the networking racket, but there is plenty of room left over for other players to get at the trough. And today, Force10 Networks - one of the up-and-coming 10 Gigabit Ethernet networking providers that is not yet making money even as it is making sales - said it is taking an empty wheelbarrow down to Wall Street to get some cash and bring it back to San Jose.… | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:02:02 GMT |
Cray to super engineer Microsoft clouds
Azure turns to green
Supercomputer maker Cray has said it's going to be a thin couple of quarters until it begins shipping new "Baker" systems in Q3. But the company's Custom Engineering group, which does bespoke design work on behalf of clients, is hoping to fill in some of that gap. A deal announced today between cloud computing wannabe Microsoft and Cray could result in some substantial money.… | Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:02:02 GMT |
LTO-5 tape comes from Quantum and Overland
Dead-ended road-map
Both Quantum and Overland have announced LTO5 tape products, but the LTO consortium still has nowhere for tape users to go after LTO-6.… | Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:51:58 GMT |
IBM cuts more than 1,600 US jobs
Under the reporting radar
IBMers from a number of different divisions of the IT giant say that the company initiated another round of "resource actions" on Monday, with somewhere north of 1,600 people estimated to have lost their jobs.… | Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:49:16 GMT |
Sony Pictures virtualises filers
Avere gets a big one
Sony Pictures Imageworks, the special effects company behind Alice in Wonderland 3D, is virtualising its filers behind Avere appliances.… | Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:46:33 GMT |
Asus goes small on aluminium, big on Bamboo
Shows off latest models, and latest models
Cebit Asus showcased its fourth generation Eee at Cebit today, along with its bamboo-cased business laptops and a series of gaming laptops with two of everything.… | Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:59:05 GMT |
Asus assures no more delays for keyboard-computer
Phantom Eee will manifest soon, honest
Asus promised today that its much delayed Eee keyboard PC will finally ship in April.… | Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:52:02 GMT |
How to pimp your supercomputer
The HPC Advisory Council is here to help
Today, The Register's resident HPC analyst Dan Olds discusses the HPC Advisory Council, for this exclusive webcast.… | Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:02:01 GMT |
Micron to make even teenier NAND dies
25nm ain't small enough
Not content with shrinking its NAND flash process to 25nm, Micron is heading below that level next year.… | Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:53:28 GMT |
Converged IT stacks threaten storage interfaces
Vertical optimisation could oust layered standard interfaces
Comment In a world of converged IT stacks the standard interfaces on which external storage depends are threatened.… | Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:19:59 GMT |