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[3 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

Mobile chips warming up as PC chips chill
While chip makers are not white-knuckled with fear as they were during the economic meltdown of late 2008 and early 2009, they were hoping that the recent boom in chip sales would hold for a couple of quarters — and it probably won’t.…

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[2 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

Taunts estranged son
VMworld  Microsoft’s assault on VMware knows no bounds.…

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[2 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

Safe SOX for your virtual box
VMworld  Virtual security appliance maker HyTrust is revving up its wares with a new 2.1 release and positioning itself as the go-to partner for auditing and compliance for VMware’s new vCloud Director.…

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[2 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

MosKeyto flies in
Ordinary USB Flash drives to darn big for you? LaCie’s new MosKeyto protrudes a mere 6mm from the USB port it’s connected to.…

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[2 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

HP pumps fist
Dell has admitted defeat in its attempt to buy 3PAR.…

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[2 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

Dell’s new offer given drubbing
HP has raised its bid for 3PAR to $33 a share, around $2.4bn, beating a revised Dell offer made earlier today.…

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[2 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

HPC eases the strain
Here’s another “How HPC saves your worthless hide” type of story – our pals at InsideHPC publicized a collaboration between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) that should increase air safety for people riding on planes and for the people standing around underneath them.…

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[2 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

HP, Dell, everyone schtum on 3PAR bids
Opinion  3Par has not issued a statement recommending HP’s $2bn bid for the company, despite the ending of a three-day period for Dell to mount a counter-offer.…

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[2 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

Exchange Server 2010 heals 2007 release trauma
Sysadmin blog  Recently I had the opportunity to walk through complete installs of Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010. Although I have used Exchange Server 2007 for the past two years, as with Vista, I prefer to pretend it never happened.…

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[2 Sep 2010 | No Comment | ]

Feel the need for it though
Large companies across the UK increasingly turn to independent consultants when they want advice on the design and specification of a data centre. Almost all of them then ignore some or all of that advice, according to research released today.…