HP bids $2.4bn for 3PAR
Dell's new offer given drubbing
HP has raised its bid for 3PAR to $33 a share, around $2.4bn, beating a revised Dell offer made earlier today.… | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:48:33 GMT |
My Exchange conversion
Exchange Server 2010 heals 2007 release trauma
Sysadmin blog Recently I had the opportunity to walk through complete installs of Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010. Although I have used Exchange Server 2007 for the past two years, as with Vista, I prefer to pretend it never happened.… | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:45:38 GMT |
If HP gets 3PAR, does Donatelli get HP?
HP, Dell, everyone schtum on 3PAR bids
Opinion 3Par has not issued a statement recommending HP's $2bn bid for the company, despite the ending of a three-day period for Dell to mount a counter-offer.… | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:06:52 GMT |
How much aircraft fatigue is too much?
HPC eases the strain
Here’s another “How HPC saves your worthless hide” type of story - our pals at InsideHPC publicized a collaboration between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) that should increase air safety for people riding on planes and for the people standing around underneath them.… | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:01:04 GMT |
Large companies ignore data centre advice - survey
Feel the need for it though
Large companies across the UK increasingly turn to independent consultants when they want advice on the design and specification of a data centre. Almost all of them then ignore some or all of that advice, according to research released today.… | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:01:02 GMT |
MokaFive outs bare-metal PC hypervisor
Somewhere between VMware and Citrix
Disappointed with the ridiculously skinny PC coverage offered by the XenClient bare-metal hypervisor just announced by Citrix Systems? Annoyed that VMware took its Client Virtualization Platform, also a so-called type 1 hypervisor for PCs, out behind the barn and gave it the Old Yeller? Then MokaFive is cooking up something you might find useful.… | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:00:02 GMT |
Cray and SGI push upgrades to latest supers
Tickle me, Elmo
Supercomputer makers Cray and Silicon Graphics have done years of engineering to get their respective XE6 and Altix UV 1000 massively parallel supercomputers to market. And now, despite research funding woes among governments, research institutions, and corporations, the two companies face the challenging task of convincing customers of their prior machines to upgrade to the new iron.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:55:01 GMT |
VMware app dev platform gazes beyond SpringSource Java
Eyes Ruby, PHP, .NET
VMworld VMware says that its Cloud Application Platform – a means of building and deploying applications that has grown up around the SpringSource Java framework – will eventually embrace other programming languages, including Ruby-on-Rails, PHP, and perhaps .NET.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:46:57 GMT |
Tosh has tiniest flash bits
24nm? It's what you do with it that counts, etc
Toshiba has started mass-producing NAND flash ships using a 24nm process, and is offering the world's smallest 8GB flash chips.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:26:53 GMT |
Symbian users Swype Samsung's tricks
World-beating text entry comes to Nokia
The world's fastest text entry system, Swype, is now in Beta for Symbian S60 5th edition, allowing Nokia users to write by tracing a path rather than the old-fashioned tapping on keys.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:01:43 GMT |
Geek tech firm loses Jedi credentials
Lucasfilm swoop crushes opposition
Jedi Mind Inc has conceded that someone else might just own the term Jedi, and has changed its name to Mind Technologies Inc.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:36:33 GMT |
Gartner chops PC shipment forecasts for 2010
Treat yourself to a new PC before Halloween
It is looking like Friday, October 22, is going to be a fabulous day to buy a new desktop, notebook, or netbook. That's a week before Hewlett-Packard finishes its fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 and also a week before PC rival Dell completes its third quarter of its fiscal 2011.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:34:50 GMT |
Lock up your Crackberries
Smartphones can be secure
Sysadmin blog Most of the articles about the security of Research In Motion’s Blackberries have focused on governments that want a peek behind RIM’s encryption, but other elements of the Blackberry make it well-designed for a business environment.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:09:22 GMT |
BlueLock: Risky cloud business
Admitting the imbalance is a good start
VMworld One of our first meetings at VMworld was with BlueLock, who have the distinction of being one of a small handful of cloud service providers participating in VMware’s big vCloud Datacenter initiative. We spent a bit of time grilling Pat O’Day, BlueLock CTO, in their booth and learned some new things about the cloud value proposition.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:13:18 GMT |
Apple livestreaming heralds Jobs-to-fanboi brain-linking
Cupertino's chilling plan to sideline journos, bloggers
Apple's live streaming of its latest revolutionary product launch today is a dry run for the Mac maker's massive server farm which will eventually allow Steve Jobs to bypass mainstream media and download news directly to fanbois' brains.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:45:32 GMT |
Every cloud has a platinum lining
Says 3PAR CEO
Conversations with various people suggest that 3PAR is keen to rebut any suggestion it has been shopping itself.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:41:36 GMT |
Samsung shows curvy computers
New netbooks and notebooks in-bound
Samsung has introduced the NF netbook family it plans to bring to market here in October. The new machines sports Intel's new dual-core Atom N550 chip.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:42:58 GMT |
VMworld: Oi, no sneaky meetings!
Press pass kerfuffle makes for excellent start
Blog GCG staff were summarily kicked out of the VMworld press and analyst area this morning. Our crime? Trying to have a short meeting with an industry contact while sitting inside the cordoned-off analyst/press corral. Last year, and in years past, we routinely took briefings in this area with no trouble.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:10:14 GMT |
The Large Hadron Collider's mega-pic churn
If you can't destroy the world, drown it in data
Blogs The Large Hadron Collider has been operating for a few months now, and it hasn’t ripped apart the space/time continuum – not where I live, anyway, and that’s mostly all I care about. Of course, it could be that it’s still early, and that the cumulative effects of accelerating particles really fast could still spell the end of everything. Until that happens, the LHC is generating enough data to keep scientists busy from now until doomsday (unless doomsday is in the next couple of years).… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:02:02 GMT |
New super-Flash chips to run on SiOx, not graphite
'They said I was mad! But they'll all be very sorry'
Stateside chip boffins say they have developed a radical new method of building memory, which will smash through the "brick wall" that Moore's Law is about to run into.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:55:53 GMT |
HP & Hynix join forces for memristor fab
3-year joint development
HP is partnering with Hynix to bring Memristor technology from lab to fab.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:01:49 GMT |
SGI bleeds less than expected
Vows 2011 break-even
Supercomputer and hyperscale server maker Silicon Graphics is still losing money, but it's hopeful that the years ahead will actually yield some profits. And thus, as the company announced its fiscal 2010 financial results today, SGI's board of directors reanimated a latent $40m stock buyback program that the merger between Rackable Systems and Silicon Graphics put on hold.… | Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:14:57 GMT |
Xsigo rejiggers virtual I/O director for Ethernet
Adapter cards given the boot, too
Xsigo Systems, one of the pioneers of virtual I/O for server networks and their links to storage, is beside itself with excitement at the VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza in San Francisco now that it has finally brought a product to market that is designed for enthusiastic uptake by IT shops that like their Ethernet and don't want to buy special adapter cards from anyone to virtualize their I/O.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:59:08 GMT |
Big Blue finally punts an Opteron 6100 server
One System x rack only, no blades
It only took five months, but on Tuesday it finally happened: IBM announced its first — and what could very well end up being its only — System x or BladeCenter server fitted with AMD's "Magny-Cours" Opteron 6100 processors.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:22:56 GMT |
VMware boss: we rise as Windows falls
The OS sets in the west
VMworld Update: This story has been updated with additional statements from Maritz and additional commentary to flesh out and clarify Maritz's comments.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:55:13 GMT |
Microsoft douses VMware with cold cloud shower
'We have the apps you trust'
Microsoft has told users they've got "nothing to lose" by checking out the company's Azure cloud and hosted applications before committing to a deal with archrival VMware.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:36:23 GMT |
Hitachi GST IPO may be coming
Reuters saying - so it isn't spin
Via Aaron Rakers of Stifel Nicolaus I'm hearing Hitachi GST may be being prepped for an IPO.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:53:46 GMT |
EMC embraces benchmarks
Celerra gateway excels
EMC has started getting enthusiastic about benchmarks, the latest being SPECsfs2008-nfs v3. It submitted a Celerra VG8 Gateway system - that's a NAS head sitting atop either Symmetrix VMAX or CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage. This VG8 is a bit of a monster with up to eight data movers, called X-Blades, which contain 6-core Xeon 5600 CPUs cycling at 2.83GHz.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:55:50 GMT |
IT engineer fights spider with improvised flamethrower
Can of deodorant + lighter = hospital
An IT engineer who attempted to dispatch a spider with an improvised flamethrower ended up on the wrong end of his own can of deodorant, the Sun reports.… Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
| Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:25:38 GMT |
Project Horizon: VMware's plan to restitch the desktop
Your cloud identity
VMworld VMware has released new versions of its View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and its ThinApp application streaming software, while promising some sort of consumer "cloud identity" offering sometime next year.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:02:02 GMT |
VMware blows vCloud across skies public and private
Project Redwood is go
VMworld VMware has officially lifted the curtain on Project Redwood, its long-expected platform for building so-called infrastructure clouds. Now known as vCloud Director, the platform underpins Amazon EC2-like public clouds from VMware partners such as Verizon, but it's also a means of building similar services inside private data centers. The idea is to provide a single "hybrid" platform that lets businesses run applications across the public and the private.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:02:02 GMT |
Physicists, biologists pick ScaleMP to manage memory
Bigger is better
Blog ScaleMP made some HPC news lately by announcing that the Bielefeld University Physics Department has selected ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation software.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:20:59 GMT |
Isilon adds iSCSI
Of course …. and what about FCoE?
Isilon is adding iSCSI block data access to its OneFS operating system, meaning its scale-out filer product is now a scale-out, unified storage product.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:41:28 GMT |
Quantum soups up midrange DXi
DXi6700 gets Fibre Channel
Quantum has added Fibre Channel access to its DXi6500 mid-range to make the DXi6700 with a 3.5TB/hour data rate.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:01:56 GMT |
BlueArc goes for deduplication
Permabit is the lucky guy
Fast filer supplier BlueArc is going to embed Permabit's Albireo deduplication software into its products, enabling more data to be stored in the same disk capacity.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:51:44 GMT |
HP pays to end fraud probe
And starts buy-back scheme
HP is paying $55m to end an investigation into government procurement which suggested the ink giant was paying kickbacks to its channel partners in order to get government contracts.… | Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:24:19 GMT |
AMD to dump ATI brand
Soon: AMD Radeon and AMD FirePro
The ATI brand is about to disappear, AMD announced Monday.… | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:57:22 GMT |
Citrix eats VMLogix for self-service clouds
Virtual switches coming to XenServer
On the opening day of VMware's VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza in San Francisco Monday, rival Citrix Systems fired off the first salvo of the most recent battle between the two companies over who can build a better cloud by announcing its acquisition of privately held VMLogix.… | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:06:47 GMT |
Intel to acquire wireless chipmaker for $1.4bn
The Third Pillar: Infineon
Intel today announced an acquisition targeted at beefing up their stuttering efforts to become a player in the hottest segment of the consumer-electronics market: smartphones and other mobile internet-connectivity devices.… | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:48:27 GMT |
Voltaire chases cloudy server networks
One rack, forty-eight 10 GE ports
Long-time InfiniBand switch maker Voltaire continues to expand its Ethernet product line – and therefore its addressable market. Today, it announced a new switch aimed at cloudy workloads inside companies and at hosting/cloud service providers.… | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:02:02 GMT |
Is Gordon the future of HPC?
Not that Gordon
HPD: just what we need in the computing industry – another acronym. But this is the term that Michael Norman, interim director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), is using to discuss how HPD (High Performance Data) goes hand in hand with HPC.… | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:02:02 GMT |
I was working in the lab, late one night...
Learn about your software in a lab before you deploy it
Sysadmin blog The most important message I have for those considering Office Communications Server is to take the time to play with it in the lab.… | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:02:02 GMT |
HP punts turnkey Matrix cloud
Hand-holding included
HP is rolling out a new product dubbed CloudStart, a means of designing, building, and installing a private cloud based on Matrix iron. That includes training IT staff on how to use it and porting over four existing customer applications to the cloudy infrastructure.… | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:43:39 GMT |
What is IBM up to in October?
The 7th is the day
The tag line is promising; on October 7th you'll wonder how you managed data on October 6th. That's what Big Blue is promising with a "new and ground-breaking [storage] solution."… | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:50:57 GMT |
3PAR awash in sea of green
Dell stoking HP's fire
3PAR awash in sea of green… | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:30:20 GMT |
Reg Hardware Reviews Digest
A taste of last week's tech
In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics, gaming, computing and photography.… | Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:02:02 GMT |
HP and Dell trade (still more) 3PAR bids
$2bn – because nothing else is 'available'
Dell and HP have once again traded bids as they tussle over storage outfit 3PAR. On Friday morning, Dell matched HP's Thursday bid of $27 a share, and HP promptly re-upped the ante with a $30 a share bid, valuing 3PAR at $2 billion.… | Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:18:23 GMT |
Dell data center biz invaded by California hippies
'Cisco makes refrigerators. We open your mind'
Dell has reinvented itself as a California hippie.… | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:19:03 GMT |
Intel to get whacked in Q3 by PC slowdown
Competitive pressures, too?
Wall Street got a shock this morning as chip maker Intel cut its guidance for the third quarter ending in September.… | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:19:39 GMT |
Netezza sees explosive growth in Q2
TwinFin upgrade around the corner
Momentum continues to build at data warehousing appliance maker Netezza, which posted 45 per cent growth in the second quarter of fiscal 2011, hitting $63.8m in revenues.… | Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:51:53 GMT |