Rented tubes should still be clear tubes Canada's telecom regulators gave Bell Canada the OK to throttle peer-to-peer Internet traffic on pipes it leases to third-party ISPs.… Full published article at: Read More »

SC08 A dense cluster of Intel Atoms While supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics was showing off its existing Altix lines of Xeon and Itanium servers at the SC08 supercomputing show in Austin, Texas, this week, the most interesting thing the company touted was not yet a real computer, but a concept system, called Molecule.… Full published article at: Read More »

Third beta, then release The "standards-compatible" next edition of Internet Explorer has been bumped into 2009 by Microsoft.… Full published article at: Read More »

Freebie teraflops for ISVs SC08 When it comes to parallel supercomputing, and indeed any kind of parallel processing, the hardware is the easy part. The systems software, including a tuned software stack and middleware for managing data, visualization applications for turning datasets into something human beings can use to make decisions or understand some phenomenon, is a bit trickier.… Full published article at: Read More »

Storage doesn't have to spin Comment When you are recovering from a long period of hard times and light appears at the end of the tunnel and gets closer and closer until you emerge into glorious daylight, you get a spring in your step and start making plans. Now you're back on your feet, the world becomes an oyster again, and you go off in different directions pursuing pearls. That's the feeling I get talking to Hitachi GST.… Full published article at: Read More »

To Itanium or not to Itanium SC08 Architectures can change quickly in the supercomputing space, and slow-moving vendors can get left behind or at least find themselves out of step with the next big wave of sales in the HPC area. This has happened in the past with Silicon Graphics, and the company is determined to not let it happen again.… Full published article at: Read More »

Subscription service customers only In brief Sun Microsystems has added a query analysis tool to MySQL, but for paying customers only.… Full published article at: Read More »

Angelica Mari, Computing, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 11:40:00 Food chain bolsters storage and processing capacity after merger with United Co-operatives The Co-operative Group is making a £1m investment in the overhaul of its data warehousing platform, intended to increase storage capacity and information processing power. The group's current data warehousing set-up is nearing full capacity since the merger between Co-op and United Co-operatives last year, which boosted the number of stores to over 2,200. In order to deliver the improvements to the merged business, the group's food retail information services closed a deal with Teradata,...Read More »

Angelica Mari, Computing, Thursday 20 November 2008 at 11:26:00 Retailer deploys 'tokenisation' middleware Clothing manufacturer Cotton Traders has increased customer payment data security to become compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The company is deploying 'tokenisation' middleware which ensures that credit card details are replaced by a token held in a data depository kept separate from its SAP order-processing system. "Customer security has always been at the top of our priorities. We want to ensure that our customers know we will manage their data...Read More »

Office of Fair Trading not convinced Capita's £78m takeover of IBS Opensystems Software has been referred to the Competition Commission.… Full published article at: Read More »