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 Biting the hand that feeds IT Copyright: Copyright 2008, Situation Publishing Fri, 16 May 2008 19:08:57 +0200 Shows Intel Chairman begging for forgivenessAMD vs Intel It's document season in the ongoing anti-trust lawsuit between AMD and Intel. Last week, the companies fought over witness testimony and earlier this week a judge told Intel to fork over some documents related to interviews done as the company tried to deal with its deletion of e-mails possibly related to the case at hand. Now, we've received AMD's response to Intel's filing around the witness testimony, and a couple of tidbits fell out of the heavily censored document.… Fri, 16 May 2008 18:09:57 +0200 Warns about depletion of IPv4 addressesThe Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sounded an alarm bell yesterday over the rapid depletion of IPv4 internet addresses and gave the IPv6 protocol another push.… Fri, 16 May 2008 17:22:33 +0200 Big website knickers round anklesThe unavailability of the US National Security Agency website on Thursday has been linked to misconfigured DNS (Domain Name System) servers.… Fri, 16 May 2008 17:13:22 +0200 Odd couple shack upMicrosoft and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation have confirmed that the XO laptop will soon be available as Windows-loaded machines.… Fri, 16 May 2008 16:38:33 +0200 Departing software chief stings NegroponteThe former security director of the One Laptop Per Child non-profit has blasted the project for losing sight of its goals, accusing chairman Nicholas Negroponte of deceiving the public. It's all about shipping kit, says Ivan Krstić in an incendiary essay.… Fri, 16 May 2008 11:03:23 +0200 One net to rule them all - and in the darkness find themUS telco Verizon yesterday announced it had won a $678.5m, ten-year deal to tie together the many disparate networks within the vast US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).… 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.… Thu, 15 May 2008 03:03:56 +0200 Internal interviews must be disclosed to AMDAMD vs Intel Intel has been ordered to hand over secret employee interviews from an internal investigation looking into documents and e-mails that went missing during its antitrust trial with AMD.… Wed, 14 May 2008 22:13:43 +0200 A 3.4PB beastIBM has revealed a new TS7530 virtual tape system with no deduplication capabilities at all, just hardware compression.… Wed, 14 May 2008 19:27:51 +0200 MCE's guide to storage bloatMCE Technologies has a dual 500GB hard disk drive kit to produce 1TB MacBooks by using the SuperDrive optical disk drive bay.… Wed, 14 May 2008 02:28:32 +0200 Series 5 begat Series 2Adaptec is launching a new line of entry-level unified serial RAID controllers today, using the revamped design of its top-tier Series 5 gear announced in March.… 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 17:55:02 +0200 Speedier SAN selection sightedBrocade is primed to move its 8Gb/s networking gear to a market it entered just one year ago, server bus host adapters (HBAs). It's also giving the 8Gig work-over to its Fibre Channel switch lineup.… 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 03:10:39 +0200 SSD shortage coming?Intel is working its close ties to Google for solid state storage drive sales, according to a report.… 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.… Tue, 13 May 2008 00:35:48 +0200 Wafers? Nah. How about bronze and wood?Silicon Valley got its first look at the true roots of the digital age this week, with the arrival of a five-ton calculator made from the designs of the Victorian-age mathematician and Londoner, Charles Babbage.… Mon, 12 May 2008 23:22:46 +0200 Quad-core injectionBy moving from dual to quad-core Xeons Data Domain has a new high-end DD690 product that dedupes data twice as fast. It is the industry's fastest inline deduplication system.… 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 14:01:12 +0200 Graphics company doesn't need in-house CPU tech - for now...Nvidia doesn't want to buy VIA, the graphics chip maker's CEO has claimed. Nvidia is completely focused on being a "visual computing technology company", he said. Well, for the moment, at any rate...… 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.… Sat, 10 May 2008 00:07:19 +0200 Affairs, social security checks and the mini-fabRadio Reg Based on the rather insane number of messages I've received over the last couple of weeks, you guys really, really wanted part two of our interview with Steve Usdin, author of Engineering Communism. Well, here it is.… attached file: type: audio/mpeg size: 23.08 MB here 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.… Fri, 09 May 2008 01:51:25 +0200 Meeting doglegs to pointlessnessAMD's annual shareholder meeting today could have been an excellent time to elaborate on the company's plan to reverse course from an extremely rough 2007.… Thu, 08 May 2008 21:49:59 +0200 7,200rpm, 2.5-inch drive out-firsts 'world's first'Hitachi is updating its TravelStar laptop hard drive range with a more capacious 320GB disk that spins at 7,200rpm.… Thu, 08 May 2008 20:35:11 +0200 A storage de-dupe and network acceleration boxAccording to an IT man from Arizona, F5 is up to something, something good. We've been wondering what it has been doing now that it has acquired Acopia and its file virtualising ARX switch. Well, according to this Arizonan who is familiar with the situation, F5 is developing a single box to replace two that people would need now.… Thu, 08 May 2008 17:26:05 +0200 Beeb and ITV square up to SkyiPlayer, the BBC's promiscuous media delivery software, will be available on Freesat within a year, the operator hopes.… Thu, 08 May 2008 02:43:49 +0200 Bell Labs tolls for theeMorgan Sparks, inventor of the first "practical" transistor and one of the reasons your cell phone doesn't use vacuum tubes, died this week at the age of 91.… 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 13:30:04 +0200 Netgear slapped with patent suitWi-fi co Ruckus reckons Netgear has been fitting its directional Wi-Fi technology to more routers than it ought, and has slapped the company with a patent-infringement suit.… Wed, 07 May 2008 10:15:33 +0200 Pessimism pays offCisco hit its lowered targets for the third quarter of 2008, increasing sales by 10.4 per cent ahead of targeted growth of 10 per cent.… Wed, 07 May 2008 04:49:39 +0200 If you have a space shuttleThere are a few software makers out there who are excited about desktop virtualization - damned excited. And sometimes that excitement takes us into rather confusing territory where jubilation overpowers technical reality.… 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.… Tue, 06 May 2008 21:29:42 +0200 'Extreme' appliance for multi-petabytesHewlett-Packard has issued a massive NAS system for the most seriously storage starved — web 2.0 shops, huge ass data centers, national labs, and other businesses with more petabytes of data than can be considered healthy.… Tue, 06 May 2008 19:33:27 +0200 Tap into our data etherRackspace is developing a storage-in-the-cloud service called CloudFS for web 2.0, SaaS (software-as-a-service) and social networking media customers needing highly scalable storage.… Tue, 06 May 2008 03:05:37 +0200 Kindergarten cop, shmindergarten shmopA federal judge in California sentenced an ex-Navy SEAL to prison today after he refused to testify against his employer, former Broadcom CEO, Henry Nicholas.… 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 21:14:56 +0200 Driller killerDisk drives are extraordinarily resilient. I've seen one that had been run over, dropped in a toilet and then thrown out of the window of a seven-storey office block. It looked unusable. Kroll Ontrack managed to recover virtually all the data on it by drying it and taking it apart.… 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.… |
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