Archives for February, 2009
Reg Reader poll on notebook quality: results are in
Are Apple and Sony worth the price premium?
Tech Panel Our recent poll of Reg readers on their perceptions of some of the most prominent brands in the notebook PC space provided some interesting food for thought for those looking to make procurement decisions in this area. While it is tempting to focus on specs and [...]
Nokia plotting Symbian laptops
MC400* route to keeping up with the Androids
Nokia has plans to put Symbian onto laptop computers, with the vendor predicting converged devices were likely to appear in as little as five years from now.…
VMware’s one-trick pony: Destined to be a platform?
A Maritz made in heaven – or not
Comment These guys could make it. VMware could be another Oracle, another supplier whose steel is tempered by the furnace heat of Microsoft competition, instead of weakening and melting away like Netscape, the Lotus spreadsheet and other classic Microsoft-whipped suppliers.…
VMware, Novell hatch virtual appliance scheme
More hardware that isn’t real
Virtualization specialist VMware has teamed up with commercial Linux distributor Novell to create software appliances based on Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) wrapped up in VMware’s ESX Server virtual machines. The deal was inked at the VMworld festivities in Cannes this week.…
AMD lifts veil on six-core Constantinople Istanbul
The Road from Shanghai
AMD has demoed its upcoming six-core server processor, code-named Istanbul, claiming that it remains on track for release in the second half of this year.…
Microsoft plays with small, sleepy servers
Like kittens, only crunchier
The Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) research unit at Microsoft, officially launched this week at the TechFest event in Redmond but secretly in existence for more than a year, showed off a number of projects at the event, two of which relate to servers.…
Microsoft aims ‘non-security’ update at gaping security hole
Disabling Autorun once and for all
Microsoft is delivering a Windows software update designed to quash once and for all the difficulty of disabling Autorun, a feature that allows the spread of malware through CDs, USB, and other removable media.…
What’s next for NetApp hardware?
Storage and the PCIe switch
NetApp has confirmed it is working on new hardware platforms.…
HP and Sun in Solaris bear hug
Unix survivor
HP and Sun Microsystems have entered into an agreement designed to simplify sales, service, and support for customers who run – or can be coaxed to run – Sun’s Solaris 10 operating system on HP’s x86 hardware.…
What’s next for NetApp hardware?
Storage and the PCIe switch
NetApp has confirmed it is working on new hardware platforms.…
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