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  • 3PAR awash in sea of green

    Dell stoking HP's fire

    3PAR awash in sea of green Dell stoking HP's fire The Hp and Dell bidding battle for 3PAR has reached two billion dollars with HP's Friday afternoon bid of $30/share. It could be a crushing blow, exactly what Dell wanted. Consider that Dell's last two bids have been weak. Last week it increased an HP bid of $24/share by just …

    Blocks and Files 30 Aug 01:30

  • What is IBM up to in October?

    The 7th is the day

    The tag line is promising; on October 7th you'll wonder how you managed data on October 6th. That's what Big Blue is promising with a "new and ground-breaking [storage] solution." The word is that it will feature virtualisation, deduplication, compression - think Storwize, thin provisioning, automated tiering, and will provide …

    Blocks and Files 30 Aug 01:50

  • DoJ double eyes Google flight data play

    $700m airline search pact under microscope

    Google's proposed $700 million acquisition of flight data outfit ITA Software is receiving extra scrutiny from the US Department of Justice. On Friday, with a blog post, Google told the world that it has received a "second request" from the DoJ, meaning the feds want additional information as they continue to review the deal …

    Financial News 30 Aug 04:36

  • HP punts turnkey Matrix cloud

    Hand-holding included

    HP is rolling out a new product dubbed CloudStart, a means of designing, building, and installing a private cloud based on Matrix iron. That includes training IT staff on how to use it and porting over four existing customer applications to the cloudy infrastructure. It's one thing to sell cloudy infrastructure and quite …

    Servers 30 Aug 04:43

  • Samsung X125 11.6in notebook

    Review AMD's Athlon II Neo gets a mini-laptop outing

    Computer manufacturers are well known for hyping up their products - "magical", indeed - but few actually fib. Samsung isn't telling porkies, but the sticker on its new X125 overstates with the best of them. Two claims in particular struck me: "Fast booting" and "ultra-thin design". Samsung's X125: netbook plus Good job …

    reghardware 30 Aug 07:02

  • WIN a 64GB 3G+Wi-Fi Apple iPad worth £699

    Competition 'Magical' gadget could be yours

    Apple's iPad is undoubtedly 2010's hottest product and, thanks to the guys and gals at mobile tech superstore eXpansys, one top-of-the-range model could be yours. Reg Hardware and eXpansys have a 64GB, 3G+Wi-Fi iPad to give away to one lucky reader. Based around a 9.7in, 1024 x 768 capacitive, oleophobic touchscreen and …

    reghardware 30 Aug 08:02

  • Broadband pricing in US and Europe falls

    €5 a month

    Broadband pricing in Europe and the US fell €5 a month, on average, as broadband speeds went up by an average of 20 per cent during the last year, says researcher Analysys Mason. This is after a relatively flat period during the past recession, when prices held up. Now the average price paid for a fixed broadband service …

    Telecoms 30 Aug 08:02

  • I was working in the lab, late one night...

    Sysadmin blog Learn about your software in a lab before you deploy it

    The most important message I have for those considering Office Communications Server is to take the time to play with it in the lab. My experience with OCS prompted me to install it in a lab environment to see what it could really do, even though I had already installed it directly into a production environment as a replacement …

    Sysadmin blog 30 Aug 09:02

  • Is Gordon the future of HPC?

    Not that Gordon

    HPD: just what we need in the computing industry – another acronym. But this is the term that Michael Norman, interim director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), is using to discuss how HPD (High Performance Data) goes hand in hand with HPC. If you have both HPC and HPD, then you’ve got something that can be an …

    HPC Blog 30 Aug 10:02

  • Voltaire chases cloudy server networks

    One rack, forty-eight 10 GE ports

    Long-time InfiniBand switch maker Voltaire continues to expand its Ethernet product line – and therefore its addressable market. Today, it announced a new switch aimed at cloudy workloads inside companies and at hosting/cloud service providers. The new Vantage 6048 switch that debuts this week at the VMworld virtualization and …

    Data Networking 30 Aug 12:02

  • Intel to acquire wireless chipmaker for $1.4bn

    The Third Pillar: Infineon

    Intel today announced an acquisition targeted at beefing up their stuttering efforts to become a player in the hottest segment of the consumer-electronics market: smartphones and other mobile internet-connectivity devices. "The global demand for wireless solutions continues to grow at an extraordinary rate," said Intel …

    Financial News 30 Aug 17:48

  • Citrix eats VMLogix for self-service clouds

    Virtual switches coming to XenServer

    On the opening day of VMware's VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza in San Francisco Monday, rival Citrix Systems fired off the first salvo of the most recent battle between the two companies over who can build a better cloud by announcing its acquisition of privately held VMLogix. The financial terms of the VMLogix …

    Virtualization 30 Aug 18:06

  • Disruptive JBoss duo fluff Java cloud

    IBM and Oracle take note

    Two of the brains behind the disruptive open source application server JBoss are building platform services for Java coders. JBoss' ex-chief technology officer Sacha Labourey is leading CloudBees, a company that plans to deliver Java development tools as a set of hosted services charged by the minute. JBoss' former vice …

    Developer 30 Aug 18:43

  • Apple QuickTime backdoor creates code-execution peril

    Getting punked by 9-year-old parameter

    A security researcher has unearthed a “bizarre” flaw in Apple's QuickTime Player that can be exploited to remotely execute malicious code on Windows-based PCs, even those running the most recent versions of operating system. Technically, the inclusion of an unused parameter known as “_Marshaled_pUnk” is a backdoor because it is …

    Malware 30 Aug 19:27

  • AMD to dump ATI brand

    Soon: AMD Radeon and AMD FirePro

    The ATI brand is about to disappear, AMD announced Monday. "The timing is right as far as we're concerned," an AMD spokesman told The Reg, explaining that the company's brand strategy is moving to a "customer-centric approach" and away from processer-centric branding. The company's Radeon and FirePro brands will remain, but …

    PCs & Chips 30 Aug 19:57

  • Retired joint chiefs chairman dons a Red Hat

    Szulik steps down, Shelton steps up

    What do you get when you cross a Red Hat with a Green Beret? I don't know, but the commercial Linux and Java application server markets are about to find out. Retired General Henry Hugh Shelton — a native Tarheel born in Tarboro, North Carolina, and a former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division based in Fort Bragg — was …

    Operating Systems 30 Aug 20:29

  • E-voting critic released on bail (finally)

    'No offence disclosed'

    A computer scientist who exposed serious vulnerabilities in India's electronic voting machines was released on bail over the weekend after seven days in police custody. Hari Prasad – who is the technical coordinator of a group called VeTA, short for Citizens for Verifiability, Transparency and Accountability in Elections – was …

    Crime 30 Aug 22:05

  • Google munches mobile game builder

    Feast of social startups

    Google has snapped up yet another "social" startup. This week's purchase — not to be confused with last week's — is SocialDeck, an outfit that builds mobile games. As noticed by Inside Social Games, SocialDeck announced its purchased with a post to its home page. "We're super excited that someone found our social games as fun …

    Business 30 Aug 22:58