Archives for September, 2009

LSI pimps out 7900 array


Concurrent access, SSD support and more storage added
LSI Engenio has updated its high-end 7900 array to support more SATA drives, concurrent iSCSI and Fibre Channel support, and solid state storage.…

Microsoft, nVidia tag team on HPC


Making GPUs sit up and sort
Employing graphics chips as co-processors to do tough computing tasks is not as simple as plugging in some electronics, adding a few libraries of code, and letting it rip. But it ought to be something like that, which is why graphics chip maker nVidia and desktop and server operating system [...]

Apple loses Hackintosh ruling, angers judge


Must defend ‘monopoly rents’
Apple’s motion to toss out a lawsuit filed by pesky Hackintosher Psystar was itself tossed out by a US District Court judge.…

Google shuts down bank snafu Gmail account


Court order snuffs innocent bystander
Google has resolved a lawsuit from a US bank that accidentally sent 1,300 confidential tax IDs to an innocent Gmail account, but not before the web giant complied with a court order to shutdown the account and disclose certain account info.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications

Is Apple behind Intel’s speedy optical link?


Jobs-Otellini interconnect
The high-speed Light Peak optical interconnect that Intel unveiled at last week’s developer confab was developed as a result of a CEO-to-CEO interconnect between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Intel’s Paul Otellini.…

What is your recession sales strategy?

Sunbelt buckles up for anti-bloatware drive


Slow, fat rivals taken to task
The anti-virus bloatware problem is getting worse despite what some vendors may claim, according to figures from Sunbelt Software.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

Reddit swiftly squishes XSS worm


WTF comment spam script
Popular social news website Reddit has stopped the spread of a cross-site scripting (XSS) worm that hit the site on Monday.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

STEC notches up LSI win


How Engenious
LSI is to use STEC ZeusIOPS enterprise flash drives in its products, following the example of EMC’s Symmetrix and Clariion arrays and arrays from many other storage vendors.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work

Dataram makes SAN flash cache sandwich


Behind the Fibre Channel switches
Memory supplier Dataram has found another place to stuff flash cache, parking a pile of it between drive arrays and fabric switches in a SAN.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

STEC notches up LSI win


How Engenious
LSI is to use STEC ZeusIOPS enterprise flash drives in its products, following the example of EMC’s Symmetrix and Clariion arrays and arrays from many other storage vendors.…