Archives for March, 2009

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.…

Intel clears Core i7 Xeon 5500 for landing


Code tweaks ahead
Nehalem Day  After Monday’s roll-out of Intel’s long-awaited Xeon 5500 family, The Reg sat down with a pair of Intel honchos at the company’s Santa Clara, California, headquarters and asked, “What took you so long?”…

Intel showcases ‘tranformational’ Nehalem


It’s the next Pentium Pro, apparently
Nehalem Day  Intel’s “Nehalem EP” Xeon 5500 series of processors for two-socket servers were announced this afternoon. Finally. Now, the server market can breathe a sigh of relief and set about the difficult task of trying to peddle better boxes in a worsening economy. Which sure beats trying to sell [...]

Dell girds iron from the tower to the blade


Racks included
Nehalem Day  Dell has officially announced its new “Nehalem EP” server lineup.…

HP goes to eleven with ProLiant launch


Strength in numbers
Nehalem Day  When you are the volume leader in the x64 server racket, as Hewlett-Packard is, you have customers who have all kinds of different needs, and when Intel launches a new processor for the workhorse two-socket portion of the server market, you go broad and you go deep to protect the HP [...]

IBM punts two racks, a blade, and a hybrid thingy


Enterprise avant garde
Nehalem Day  IBM is looking for the new Nehalem EP-based servers to kick start its System x rack server and BladeCenter blade server business, which saw a steepening decline in sales as 2008 wound down.…

Intel unmasks Nehalem Xeons


Server blitz
Intel has officially unveiled its “Nehalem EP” Xeon 5500 processors for two-socket servers.…

Fujitsu talks big on x64 server sales


Sparc, mainframes get honourable mentions at FTS
The European arm of Japanese server maker Fujitsu, to be called Fujitsu Technology Solutions, is staking the growth of its server business on the IA platform.…

Firefox update fixes pwn2own vuln


Early arrival
Mozilla responded to reports of vulnerabilities by pushing out a new version of Firefox on Friday.…

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Western Digital snaps up SiliconSystems


Flash for cash
Western Digital is buying solid state disk supplier SiliconSystems for $65m in cash, and will supply SSDs to the netbook, notebook and enterprise markets.…