Hardware Archive
Chip sales definitely not – but almost – down in 2011
Semi sales take a December dive
The chip biz didn’t do as badly as many had feared it might last summer, closing out 2011 with $299.5bn in worldwide sales, up four-tenths of a per cent from the record $298.3bn revenue level set in 2010.…
Symantec: ‘NetBackup 7.5 speeds backup 100X’
Cuts 25-hour chore down to 15 minutes
Symantec says backup is a multi-point product mess, with big data blowing backup-window timing out of the water, and so it has souped up both BackupExec and NetBackup to cover more backup and restore use cases. The sexy news – well, as sexy as backup news can be – [...]
Shrunken Intel process boosts SSD performance
The new 520 Series more than doubles 510’s IOPS
Intel has announced a boosted follow-on to its 510 SSD: the 520 Series, with more than double the IOPS performance and a top-end model with almost twice the capacity.…
iPhone 4 incapable of handling Siri, says chip chap
Cough up for 4$ or somehow stagger on without blabberware
Siri won’t run on iPhone 4 because the phone’s chip can’t handle it, an analyst at the Linley Group has said. The news is a blow to iPhone 4-ers hoping for an upgrade to the voice-activated virtual assistant and is also a surprise to anyone familiar [...]
Cisco recalls suicidal UCS blade servers
Goodness gracious, great MOSFETs afire
Cisco Systems warns that its high-end B440 blades for its “California” Unified Computing System have a potentially disastrous defect that could result in one or more board failures, and emit a flash of light that could perhaps give system administrators heart attacks.…
EMC server flash rival slams VFCache
Fusion-io thinks Lightning misses target
EMC’s VFCache server cache doesn’t quite hit the mark. Although it validates server flash use, caching is not enough.…
Micron grabs almost-retired COO for chief
Mark Durcan will take over as CEO after death of Steve Appleton
Chip-maker Micron Technology has named a new CEO following the death of Steve Appleton on Friday in a plane crash.…
MYSTERY as QLogic hurls InfiniBand from train
Reg storage desk baffled in the case of the fibre fracas
Comment Storage networking and InfiniBand supplier is giving up on InfiniBand and selling that business line to Intel for $125 million.…
EMC crashes the server flash party
Lightning strike with thunder to follow
The perfect server flash storm hitting storage arrays has generated EMC’s well-signalled Lightning strike; VFCache has arrived, extending FAST technology from the array to the server. Project Thunder is following close behind, promising an EMC server-networked flash array.…
Can Sony’s new supremo make the sacrifices to save his biz?
We drill into the uphill battle ex-Playstation boss Hirai faces
Comment When Faultline first began following Sony in 2003, it was worth $36 billion on the stock market. At the time Apple was worth $9.8 billion and it was about to launch the iTunes Music Store. We said that Sony should buy Apple and put Steve [...]
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