Archives for March, 2009

What’s an open cloud? The Manifesto’s not telling


Nebular thinking
Comment  “What exactly is an open cloud?” you ask. You won’t find an answer in the Open Cloud Manifesto.…

More than 300 Nortel staff sacked without redundancy payout


Staff go from England and Northern Ireland
Networking equipment maker Nortel sacked 228 UK staff on Monday without a redundancy pay out.…

Convicted Trojan author in new hacking charge


Back before the beak
A former hacker who went to prison as a teenager over a stock-trading scam is back in trouble with the law.…

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Cosmonaut bemoans ISS toilet row


Can’t use apparently non-existent deluxe US space dunny
Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka has bemoaned an increasingly petty US-Russian spat in which politics apparently threaten the brotherly co-operation which has hitherto marked life aboard the International Space Station.…

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Emulex and QLogic bring FCoE closer


Integrated converged network adapters arrive
Fibre Channel’s replacement by Ethernet came a step closer with QLogic’s introduction of the single chip 8100 Series integrated converged network adapter (CNA), joining Emulex’ OneConnect product.…

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EU tells members to get ready for disaster


Which disaster were you thinking of?
The EU is pushing the development of a strategy to protect Europe from cyber-attacks and disruptions.…

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Emulex and QLogic bring FCoE closer


Integrated converged network adapters arrive
Fibre Channel’s replacement by Ethernet came a step closer with QLogic’s introduction of the single chip 8100 Series integrated converged network adapter (CNA), joining Emulex’ OneConnect product.…

EU demands 20% energy cut from tech industry


Reding calls for IT to act on emissions
Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, is calling on the IT industry to cut energy use by 20 per cent by 2020.…

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Scareware scammers latch onto Conficker hype


Sysadmins served poisoned searches
Scammers are taking advantage of the huge interest in the impending “activation” of the Conficker superworm by poisoning search engine results.…

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Seagate sneaks content round your home network


Physically carried FreeAgents
Seagate’s new FreeAgent Theatre media player product relies on sneakernet to cart digital files between a PC and the TV.…

Whitepaper – Accelerating virtualised environments