Archives for February, 2010
Patterned storage media almost sewn up
Insulate those bits
Comment Patterned media is stepping closer with Molecular Imprints announcing and selling a system for pilot and low-volume manufacture.…
Cleversafe beats RAID/replication scale trap
Distributed slices of data
Cleversafe has improved the hardware it sells to distribute slices of data around a network, reckoning this is much cheaper at the PB scale than a RAID and replication combination.…
Marathon reels in another $6.5m
How to tackle Microsoft, VMware
Fault tolerant and high availability clustering software maker Marathon Technologies has received the second part of a $13.5m round of equity funding that the company lined up late last year.…
Windows server revenue outpaced Linux in Q4
Perfect storm plays out
In Gartner’s assessment of the server market in the fourth quarter of 2009, X64 servers and blades in particular were singled out as the growth engines. With IDC’s similar, but different, report Thursday we learn that the Windows platform was the real beneficiary of the bump in sales.…
EMC shuffles Ionix to VMware
Welcome to the real world
EMC is keeping up appearances that its VMware subsidiary is still a separate company. Today, it transferred a number of system management products that were part of its evolving Ionix brand to VMware for $200m in cash.…
Google’s ‘post holiday’ Caffeine shot still brewing
Worldwide roll-out in ‘coming months’
The web is still waiting for the worldwide roll-out of Google’s next-generation search infrastructure, the mysterious indexing system overhaul known as “Caffeine.”…
Crucial RealSSD C300 Now Shipping
Consumers with no budgetary concerns can now buy what many regard as the fastest production SSD available. The C300 comes in 256GB and 128GB capacities and are available now for $799 and $499 respectively. The SSDs feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface and up to 355MB/s read speeds.
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CA buys 3Tera to blow up quick clouds
Banish app deployment terror
CA is buying 3Tera, which provides application cloud deployment services on Xen, and will extend its software to VMware and Hyper-V environments.…
MS uses court order to take out Waledac botnet
Zombie network decapitated. For now
Microsoft has won a court-issued take-down order against scores of domains associated with controlling the spam-spewing Waledac botnet.…
Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn’t work
Spare Backup needs spare change
Puts hand out for $7m
Comment Cloud backup service provider Spare Backup is looking for $7m by selling a secured revolving credit note. Why does it need the cash?…
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