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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Fri, 16 May 2008 02:11:08 +0200 Unleashing the iBombExclusive Apple will indeed support PA Semi's line of PowerPC-based processors, The Register has learned.… Fri, 16 May 2008 02:01:35 +0200 Byzantine buyData warehouse appliance maker Netezza is buying an enigmatic analytics firm based in North Carolina, NuTech Solutions.… Wed, 14 May 2008 00:08:28 +0200 Three new boxes and a five-pack refreshSun has been sluggish to release servers based on AMD's four-core Opteron processors, but today it got around to the quad job.… Tue, 13 May 2008 22:25:40 +0200 Now shipping with more relevanceIBM's Cell attack will gain some added muscle next month thanks to a new blade server. The system will run on a refreshed version of the Cell chip that includes better support for mathematical calculations and memory. As a result, the Cell-based blades could tempt a larger set of customers.… Tue, 13 May 2008 21:08:09 +0200 Common componentsMark Shuttleworth, head of Canonical and founder of the Ubuntu project, has called on other Linux developers to synchronize releases of new versions of their distros.… Tue, 13 May 2008 19:52:10 +0200 Taking care of the little guyMicrosoft today announced that it will launch a “public preview” program for two of its first Windows Server 2008-based bundles.… Tue, 13 May 2008 15:01:38 +0200 Marvel at its quad-core processor! Gasp at its one-hour battery life!We've all heard of laptop computers that have been designed to replace desktop PCs, but this is the first time we've come across one that's intended a server replacement.… Tue, 13 May 2008 01:57:27 +0200 Central Engineering roadmap task force formedAMD is undergoing a major shakeup, forming a new product roadmap task force, promoting one senior executive, and dropping two others in the fallout.… Mon, 12 May 2008 22:44:30 +0200 Hurd's big biteHewlett-Packard's Mark Hurd may be remounting his company's services charge, according to The Wall Street Journal, which says he is close to signing a deal to acquire Electronic Data Systems for $12bn to $13bn.… Mon, 12 May 2008 22:34:07 +0200 Plenty of muscle for hardcore nerds tooFedora 9, the latest release from the Fedora Project, goes up for download on Tuesday. The ninth release of Fedora ushers in a number of changes aimed at making the venerable distribution a more newbie-friendly desktop, but longtime users needn't fear a great dumbing down; version 9 packs plenty of power user punch as well.… Mon, 12 May 2008 21:38:57 +0200 Plopped into two new management bundlesVMware this week continues to campaign against human-on-virtual machine interaction with the shipment of two new products in its data center management and automation portfolio.… Mon, 12 May 2008 18:57:36 +0200 CEOs plan back-scratching calls this week?HP is expected to take BT’s UK datacentres off its hands in a £1.5bn deal.… Mon, 12 May 2008 17:56:47 +0200 Pushes thermal envelopeAMD today launched low power quad-core Opteron processors for the x86 server market, once again playing catch-up with Intel.… Mon, 12 May 2008 12:40:26 +0200 Co-founder off to the beachFacebook's chief technology officer Adam D'Angelo, a school friend of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving the company.… Fri, 09 May 2008 21:22:33 +0200 Also: Meet an 8 chip, 2U, 12 drive search darlingExclusive Sun Microsystems endured a lot of ribbing when it first popped out a data center in a shipping container. Now, however, it looks like all the majors are heading in that direction, including Dell, which The Register has learned has a containerized data center in development.… Wed, 07 May 2008 22:41:33 +0200 First 6-core offering due next yearAMD today shed light on its upcoming server workstation roadmap, revealing details on its first six-core processor, expected to be released next year, and a 12-core offering, due by 2010.… Wed, 07 May 2008 19:30:20 +0200 'Our Xeon binge is named Pleiades'Well, well, well. It would seem that the 20,000-core supercomputer announced yesterday by NASA will just be the first course in an ongoing relationship between the space folk, SGI and Intel.… Wed, 07 May 2008 16:11:22 +0200 Veso happy to see the light of dayAs long promised, Dell has gone hog wild with virtualization. The company today dished out a couple of new boxes geared toward running VMware and Citrix's virtualization wares, tuned its iSCSI storage gear for virtual servers and produced a couple new services bobs as well.… Wed, 07 May 2008 01:04:50 +0200 20,480 cores on the MoonNASA has once again turned to SGI for a massive supercomputer.… Tue, 06 May 2008 23:24:13 +0200 EVP Maloney in charge of 'Operation Kill Groundhog'Interview The conventional wisdom - whatever that is worth - pegs Intel EVP Sean Maloney as the company's successor to CEO Paul Otellini. That's great news for technology hacks because, man, this Maloney guy is quite a bit more open about his personal life and feelings than Otellini.… Mon, 05 May 2008 23:14:31 +0200 They totally [blank]ed our [blank]As Intel and AMD near the end of the discovery process in their US antitrust battle, the two companies have begun fighting over whose testimony will make it to the big dance. In a legal filing, AMD has pointed to the employees at some of the technology world's biggest names - HP, Dell, IBM and others - who it thinks will help make its case. Intel has responded in kind, and it's now up to a judge to decide on the strength of the vendors' arguments.… Mon, 05 May 2008 18:35:56 +0200 Raid on ISP's data centrePeter Gabriel's online music empire is reduced to a holding page, following the theft of servers from his web host over the weekend.… Mon, 05 May 2008 06:02:02 +0200 Elasticated Amazon support, squaredThe first supported first version of Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris, AKA Project Indiana, makes its debut today with additional backing from Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud.… Sat, 03 May 2008 00:46:33 +0200 Not a stellar showingSun Microsystems' shares took a bath today, slipping nearly 23 per cent after the company surprised investors with its worst financial results in over a year. The market reaction sent Sun stock down to its lowest point in nearly six years.… Fri, 02 May 2008 23:34:09 +0200 IBM rolls out measuring tape, and researchers see redData centers are rampaging energy hogs. If you haven't been thoroughly beaten over the head with that fact already — you'll have to give us a tour of the underside of your rock some time. We're sure it's lovely.… Fri, 02 May 2008 11:07:48 +0200 Spins composite whirly-power as wave of futureA company making magnetically-levitated composite fibre flywheels spinning in vacuum bottles at 50,000 rpm claims it has just shipped its 500th unit. Pentadyne Power Corp also announced proudly that a mag-lev whirlywheel it sold to NASA in March 2004 - one of its first deals - has now racked up 35,000 hours operational.… Fri, 02 May 2008 01:28:45 +0200 America (and possibly Reverend Wright) to blameA rather humbled Sun Microsystems blamed waning US technology spending for its third quarter loss.… Thu, 01 May 2008 02:41:53 +0200 Better than flashMore than 35 years ago, when the world assumed that circuits were crafted from three basic building blocks, a man named Leon Chua predicted the existence of a fourth.… Thu, 01 May 2008 02:22:49 +0200 Compliance? No, we do CmplynzInterop 2008 We've seen more than enough folks all atwitter and wetting their shorts over cloud computing at Interop 2008 Las Vegas. So it was a bit of a surprise to catch a panel at the show with Google and Amazon reps discussing what keeps businesses from embracing the technology.… Thu, 01 May 2008 01:47:00 +0200 Virtual worlds, robots and huge databases coveredStanford University has mounted some gun turrets to its Ivory Towers. Just a few weeks after rival UC Berkeley revealed a mega-funding engagement with Microsoft and Intel around multi-threaded software, Stanford has returned fire by grabbing money from just about every other vendor on the planet with interest in improving code for multi-core chips for similar research.… Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:08:12 +0200 Service-oriented mammalians to survive IT recessionInterop 2008 Day two of Interop Las Vegas 2008 opened with a modest IT proposal from Mark Templeton, President and CEO of Citrix.… Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:03:28 +0200 Qumranet wants you hooked on SolidICEQumranet, a rather small software company, wants to make a very large play in the virtualization market with a new product. It's looking for Solid ICE to go up against the desktop virtulization wares from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and a host of start-ups.… Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:32:14 +0200 It’s a heterogeneous, cross-platform, multi-platform, multivendor worldInterop 2008 A decidedly downbeat Bob Muglia took centre stage at Interop this afternoon to preach the gospel of interoperability according to Microsoft.… Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:18:38 +0200 Google search box may go on dietDell has an interesting side gig going where it makes appliance-like gear for OEMs. This week it rounded out the appliance play via a new low-end server that's of particular interest because it's small enough to fit into telco racks.… Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:55:03 +0200 Goes into hyper-greenery overdriveMicrosoft has handed over half a million dollars to four US universities doing research into green computing.… Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:39:47 +0200 AMD two-timedIntel has busted into Cray, securing a deal with the high performance computing specialist to slot Xeon processors in future systems.… Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:33:27 +0200 Shuttleworth pegs Yahoo! as a path to FlailInterview Well, here I am just a few miles from Yahoo!' headquarters and Microsoft's Silicon Valley residence. It's Sunday, and I've yet to hear screams from either camp. So, it seems that Microsoft's call to action deadline around the Yahoo! buy is passing with a lack of fanfare. Yahoo! may surprise us yet by leaking something to the New York Times or perhaps Steve Ballmer will call up his buds at the Wall Street Journal, but in lieu of such actual movements, I'm left wanting.… Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:44:28 +0200 All it takes is a buffalo and some courageThose supercomputing guys love to build their massive data centers full of hardware and high-end cooling systems. They make you feel like a real man or at least a real geek, which is important.… Sun, 27 Apr 2008 09:21:18 +0200 Kognitio monitors toaster inventory over the wirePoor old Teradata - the data warehouse kingpin and lord over real-time global toaster inventory information. First it gets attacked by a host of data warehouse appliance makers, trying to undercut it on price. And now it's being hit by buzzword-based business models from those firing up DaaS (data warehouse as a service) systems.… Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:47:02 +0200 Intel's SpeedStep inside tooSun Microsystems has released a fresh update for Solaris, but the 10 5/08 injection may appeal most to users running older generations of the operating system.… Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:09:01 +0200 Crimes against clip artCar companies have the decency to prop sexy models on top of their gas-guzzling hardware to make it more appealing. The server set does not afford us the same courtesy.… Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:14:50 +0200 Asymmetrical chip assetsExclusive Sun Microsystems has bought chip start-up Montalvo Systems for an undisclosed sum.… Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:02:20 +0200 T2+ blunder spells Rock disaster in waitingComment A couple of years back, Oracle chief Larry Ellison and then Sun CEO Scott McNealy held an event in Redwood City to renew their vows. Oracle signed on to ship Java for ten more years, and Sun started bundling Oracle's database on its servers at no charge. That last bit was meant to give Sun an edge over hardware rivals, although we can't claim to have heard of it ever making a difference in the market and aren't even sure the deal is still going.… Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:08:48 +0200 Red Hat revs Fedora 9Stripped-down operating systems made specifically for virtual machine appliances have tickled the fancy of the Linux collective, and these types of systems are keeping commercial distributors busy pushing out their versions of the concept.… Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:08:04 +0200 Freaking rivals 10,000 units at a timeIt is with some measure of awe that we introduce you to IBM's iDataPlex server.… Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:55:02 +0200 Will bird's flight usher in Linux peace?Interview On Thursday, the Ubuntu 8.04 magic happens. The operating system - called Hardy Heron at playgrounds around Silicon Valley - goes up for download in its various forms, most notably Server and Desktop.… Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:26:57 +0200 Mainframe scuffle primed, yet muffledEuropean Union regulators may be preparing for an anti-trust review of IBM, following on the complaints of start-up mainframe challenger, Platform Solutions (PSI).… Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:17:07 +0200 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:49:27 +0200 Puts faith in quad-core OpteronsChipmaker AMD posted its sixth consecutive loss yesterday, for the first quarter of 2008. The firm brought in revenues of $1.51bn, but made a net loss of $358m and an operating loss of $264m.… Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:19:47 +0200 Volume turned upFujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) is the latest hardware vendor to punt servers loaded with AMD’s four-core Opteron processor chip, which finally hit the channel – following months of production delays – last week.… |
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