Saturday 22nd March 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
Power6 charged with crimes against hamster wheels
The fierce Unix server market will sometimes drive vendors to madness. Just look at IBM, which has taken to skinning corpses so that it can prove the toughness of Power6-based gear.…
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Saturday 22nd March 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
Cheaper, fatter, slower
Toshiba has begun mass production of multi-level cell NAND flash drives, which the company will first stick into its own notebooks sold in Japan.…
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Saturday 22nd March 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
Wrapping the cloud in red tape
The Cloud Computing Revolution will be regulated, according to former Federal Communications Chairman (FCC) Reed Hundt.…
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Saturday 22nd March 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
PCs tailored for migrant workers
Dell will significantly raise its stakes in the booming economies of China and India as the company braces for lackluster growth in the US.…
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Saturday 22nd March 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
iThe iVirtualization iIdentity
Er, before we get to HP's rather unfortunate "iVirtualization" roll out, we'll note that HP plans to offer Citrix's XenServer software as a pre-installed option across the ProLiant server line.…
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Saturday 22nd March 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
USB drive backup from Airport base station
Apple has finally opened OS X Leopard's Time Machine wireless backup capability to disk drives lacking the glossy plastic anointment of Cupertino.…
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Saturday 22nd March 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
Lockdown shutdown
An Intel-backed security company which tried to compete against networking behemoth Cisco in one of its strongest markets has shut down.…
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Saturday 22nd March 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
Can network storage really be this easy to use?
Review Network-attached storage (NAS) boxes are all very well, but they're not what you'd call user friendly. Arch-geeks love 'em for storing and streaming content, but a fair few folk would prefer a simpler yet equally robust way of making storage available on a network.…
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Saturday 22nd March 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
'The telephone boxes of the broadband era'
Ericsson's chief marketing officer, Johan Bergendahl, caused a huge commotion last week when he predicted that Wi-Fi hotspots would become as "irrelevant as telephone boxes". Even allowing for Ericsson's self-interest in a world where cellular networks will be the main route for users to reach the internet while on the move, the surprise that greeted Bergendahl's remarks was strangely anachronistic.…
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Saturday 22nd March 2008 | Posted in Hardware | No Comments »
The Cluedos appear to follow
EMC will soon reveal a new OEM partner for data de-duplication in its boxes, according to several industry reports.…
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