Dell building its own Exadata killer

Dell building its own Exadata killer


Dell building its own Exadata killer

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:34 PM PDT

Runs Oracle on PowerEdge 12G servers

OpenWorld  Way back when, before Oracle bought Sun Microsystems, and even before Hewlett-Packard became hardware buddies with Big Red with the original Exadata Database Machine, Dell was Oracle's chosen buddy for running parallel Oracle databases using Real Application Cluster on top of Linux. But now Oracle is in the hardware business, and it looks like Dell is fixing to take the parallel Oracle database fight to Oracle.…

Apple snubs Samsung's Oz patent peace offering

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Cupertino wants Galaxy kit banned ASAP

Apple has rejected Samsung's peace deal in an Australian court, preferring instead to go to trial where a win could influence its other lawsuits around the world.…

Apple outs iPhone micro USB adaptor

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:05 PM PDT

Euro-standard power feed

It's not only the iPhone 4S that will ship on 14 October - so too will Apple's long-promised dock-to-micro-USB adaptor.…

Oracle previews Solaris 11, due in November

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:31 PM PDT

Clarifies Ellison's position on x86 servers

OpenWorld  If you expected Solaris 11 to be announced at the OpenWorld extravaganza taking over San Francisco this week, you probably weren't alone. But you're going to be a little disappointed, at least for a while. It won't be launched until sometime in November.…

Rumors of iPod classic's death prove exaggerated

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:50 PM PDT

The clickwheel lives on, touch-based iPods upgraded

Updated  The lack of an iPhone 5 announcement at Apple's "Let's talk iPhone" event wasn't the only pundit–defying act performed by Apple CEO Tim Cook and his merry men: despite rumors to the contrary, the venerable iPod classic also lives.…

Tuesday's iPhone event more than Apple.com can bear

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:32 PM PDT

Apple.com implodes under its own weight

Apple may be an unstoppable force in the eyes of its competitors, fans and pretty much everyone else, but no one more so than the webmasters running Apple.com.…

Apple stuffs Intel desktop CPU into iPhone 4S ad

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:08 PM PDT

Quad-core Core i7 reborn as A5? Surely not...

Apple's new iPhone 4S contains a chip the Mac maker calls the A5. But if a pic of the beast included in the 4S advert shown at the handset's launch is anything to go by, the A5 actually contains a pair of Intel 'Nehalem' processors - aka the first-gen Core i7.…

iPhone 5 a no-show at Apple's 'Let's talk iPhone' event

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 11:39 AM PDT

iPhone 4S, however, not exactly chopped liver

Apple surprised nearly every pundit who was breathlessly following its "Let's talk iPhone" event – it didn't introduce an iPhone 5.…

Red Hat snatches storage Gluster file system for $136m

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 10:22 AM PDT

What's inside Pandora's box, in fact

Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat is paying $136m to acquire Gluster, the privately held maker of the GlusterFS cluster file system that is used by some hot properties on the intertubes.…

Why grill Google over web dominance? It has none

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:58 AM PDT

Nobody wants Chocolate Factory chocolate any more

Open ... And Shut  Google chairman Eric Schmidt was recently hauled before the US Senate to answer antitrust inquiries. After all, Google dominates the online search market, with 64.8 per cent of the market in August 2011, according to comScore (and much higher market share, according to Net MarketShare), and increasingly abuses that power to disadvantage competitors and hurt consumers, according to some.…

Systemax fills hole left by shamed US boss

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:29 AM PDT

David Sprosty to don the cursed hat of Fiorentino

Systemax has hired former Best Buy exec David Sprosty as the CEO of its Technology Products division in North America, finally filling the role that was vacated by shamed exec Gilbert Fiorentino earlier in the year.…

Symantec alliance with Huawei put on countdown

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:26 AM PDT

There can be only one, or many, but not two

Symantec Vision  Symantec CEO Enrique Salem said the Huawei-Symantec joint venture will have its fate known by the end of the year: either one of the partners will buy it or there will be an IPO.…

Put down the Java manual

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:00 AM PDT

...Step away from it now

Apparently, there is a perceived shortage of C# and Java programmers. Certainly a good percentage of all job ads are for these languages.…

HP anoints Mayer in global networks boss role

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:37 AM PDT

Praised for her history of biggening

HP has confirmed that Bethany Mayer - caretaker of its global networking biz for the last four months - will get the job on a permanent basis.…

Fedora 16: Linux home for lost Ubuntu GNOMEs

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:16 AM PDT

What lies beneath the Jules Verne submarine art?

Review  The Fedora Project has released the first beta of Fedora 16.…

McAfee, IBM gobble rival security-intelligence firms

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:03 AM PDT

SIEMs like a good idea to tool up

McAfee and IBM have both bought into the expanding security intelligence market with the acquisition of start-ups NitroSecurity and Q1 Labs, respectively. Financial terms on both deals, announced Tuesday, were undisclosed.…

HTC's Mango handsets hit shelves in Blighty

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:02 AM PDT

Next-gen WinPhos to go

HTC's pair of impending Windows Phone handsets have gone on sale in the UK ahead of time.…

GridIron fires up its turbocharged bandwagon

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:38 AM PDT

That's the Big Data one - just happened to be passing

OpenWorld  GridIron says its way of turbo-charging SAN access means more database instances can be virtualised and run faster - like, say, 16 virtualised Oracle RAC nodes in a physical server juggling one million queries a second.…

Look who's talking ... about your Facebook Page

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:24 AM PDT

New blabber analytics are wet dream for stats nerds

Facebook has launched new ways to help its advertisers bank sackfuls of cash and no doubt cause privacy advocates to despair.…

Oracle's mighty column stuffs databases

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:02 AM PDT

Enough grunt to pack a petabyte into 60TB

OpenWorld  Oracle says it can squeeze its databases in ZFS and Pillar Data arrays with Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC).…

Oracle to NetApp: 'I'm a faster, cheaper storage lover'

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:42 AM PDT

Take a look at what my box can do, baby

OpenWorld  Oracle says it has scored an SPC-1 benchmark win over NetApp; its ZFS storage box delivers twice the SPC-1 speed of a NetApp array for less than half the cost.…

Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:15 AM PDT

The thing is an insult in phone form

Comment  Here we are again on iPhone day, and once more the world waits on the edge of its seat to see what the fruitchomp masterminds of Cupertino have in store.…

HTC to plug private data backdoor leak slurp vuln

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:57 AM PDT

Fix on the way for promiscuous Droid system app

HTC has admitted some of its Android handsets have a flaw which could allow malicious apps to read customer locations and account details, but a fix is on the way.…

Hospital data boob: Records left in bin room got binned

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:37 AM PDT

10,000 patients' records destroyed in NHS blunder

Bungling hospital staff accidentally destroyed patient data after a worker put 10,000 records in the wrong room, an investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office [ICO] revealed today.…

id Software's Rage

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:29 AM PDT

Apocalypse wow

Review  Is it an RPG? Is it a first-person shooter? This is a question which reverberates around my mind while I wander through Rage's wastes. Why the confusion? Because id's latest shooter hovers somewhere in the middle of these genres, a chimera with, oddly enough, lashings of Motorstorm-esque racing thrown in for good measure.…

RIM invites BlackBerry users into MS Office cloud beta

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 05:19 AM PDT

Get an early snort of Office 365 cumulus

BlackBerry users wanting to get into Microsoft's cloudy Office 365 only have a few months to wait, and the properly impatient can sign up for the beta this month.…

Lumison swallows DediPower Managed Hosting

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:58 AM PDT

Hungry ISP gobbles another server babysitter

Lumison has snapped up Reading-based cloud and co-lo player DediPower Managed Hosting for an undisclosed sum.…

Chrome browser 'is becoming Number Two'

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:42 AM PDT

Could supplant Firefox, analysts predict tight finish

Google's Chrome browser will edge past Mozilla Firefox in a matter of months, web stats poking firms have concluded. Irish company StatCounter foresees the Google browser becoming the second most used browser on the net by December.…

Premier League loses footie decoder case

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:39 AM PDT

Euro court rules in favour of pub landlady

The European Court of Justice has judged that Brits must be allowed to buy satellite TV smartcards and decoders from other single-market countries.…

NHS claws back £170m refund on duff IT system

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:27 AM PDT

'Lorenzo' snake oil found to be worthless

An American IT company has returned £170 million to the NHS after a project they promised to deliver was declared impossible.…

Facebook: 'We didn't patent stalking logged-off users'

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:14 AM PDT

We're just hunting unicorns ... bitch

Facebook has rebuffed claims that a patent it was recently granted describes the ability to track logged-out users.…

Growing arrays need bigger pipes

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT

Be generous with bandwidth

Storage array and disk drive vendors have excelled themselves and delivered the high-capacity goods. But some of us are still not happy, because although we have big fat data vaults they are being held back by anorexic pipes.…

HTC Evo 3D Android smartphone

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 04:00 AM PDT

'D' is for dud?

Review  LG might have been first with its Optimus 3D, but HTC hasn't wasted any time coming up with a glasses-free 3D phone of its own.…

Ballmer: Uninspiring performance and a small package

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:43 AM PDT

Head Microsoftie leaves board members unsatisfied

Steve Ballmer has failed to dazzle the Microsoft board in the last year, and his pay cheque seems to reflect that fact.…

Sony: all new PS3 titles will require PSN Pass for online play

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:32 AM PDT

Taxing secondhand-game buyers

Sony has officially extended its tax on gamers who buy secondhand PlayStation titles, confirming that all future Sony games with network functionality will be mediated through an online pass system.…

Facebook to scrub itself clean of filthy malware links

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:31 AM PDT

Websense to sniff out stinky URLs on social network

Facebook has recruited Websense to scan its vast social network for links to malicious sites.…

Fusion-io deploys PCIe flash toaster

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:13 AM PDT

Self-healing powers claimed if you play the magic card

Fusion-io has refreshed the whole of its ioDrive product range with smaller flash chip dies and new controller firmware to produce high performance, longer lasting flash using less silicon.…

SanDisk Memory Zone

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:00 AM PDT

Take charge of your phone, cloud storage

Android App of the Week  SanDisk is a name more associated with memory cards than apps, but its new Memory Zone offering should prove useful to anyone who wants to manage and monitor their local and cloud storage from one place.…

Core facts: Windows 8 truthiness dissected, Mango sliced

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:40 AM PDT

Black swan for Microsoft's Sinofsky?

MicroBite: number 31  With 500 new features, Mango's a juicy release for Microsoft's Windows Mobile team: third-party application multi tasking, HTML5-compliant browser and video voice mail.…

New iPhone offered for sale via unauthorised outlets

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:26 AM PDT

'Expect shortages', says man punting $1000 Jesus mobes

An unauthorised market in Apple's next-gen Jesus mobe is emerging ahead of today's much anticipated launch with price tags that would reduce most desperate fanbois to tears.…

HP finally swallows Autonomy

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 02:12 AM PDT

Looks a bit queasy, starts doing little eggy burps

HP has finally concluded the $10.24bn acquisition of Cambridge-based enterprise search and BI software firm Autonomy.…

Scotland Yard cyber-crime squad 'saved £140m'

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:58 AM PDT

ePlods predictably feel they're too valuable to cut

The Metropolitan Police's e-crime busting squad claims to have saved £140m in its last six months of fighting cybercrime.…

Amazon to whup Apple rivals when Kindle Fire hits UK

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:52 AM PDT

Brits' ideal tablet price: £250

Apple's tablet rivals will face "almost impossible competition" when Amazon brings its Kindle Fire to the UK, pollster YouGov has predicted.…

UK.gov goes back to school to avoid future IT blunders

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 01:27 AM PDT

GCHQ level of expertise needed across government

Whitehall's waste of £470m on a botched attempt to modernise fire service control rooms in England begs questions about what UK plc is doing to prevent a similar haemorrhage of money in the future.…

Gov to spread mobile masts to remote corners of Blighty

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:55 AM PDT

We'll each pay £2.42 to hook up the shepherds

The UK's Chancellor has confirmed that the government will sink £150m into buying up cell sites with the intention of extending rural coverage to 99 per cent of the population.…

Crystal Acoustics MediaMatchBox

Posted: 04 Oct 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Tiny media player with fantastic format support

Review  This minuscule media player from home theatre specialist Crystal Acoustics combines a go-anywhere form-factor with play-anything decoding.…

Innovatio targets Wi-Fi <i>users</i> with patent suits

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:44 PM PDT

Promises not to sue individuals. For now

Having found Cisco and Motorola (prior to its Google borgification) in the mood for a vigorous fightback, Innovatio IP Ventures is changing tack and filing lawsuits against Wi-Fi users for patent infringement.…

Thailand PM's Twitter account breached

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:30 PM PDT

Suspect faces 5 years in prison

The Twitter account belonging to Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been suspended after someone took control of it and used it to send messages critical of her administration.…

Microsoft updates Hotmail to deal with grey spam

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:29 PM PDT

Redmond strives to remake its web mail as (somehow) relevant

Microsoft is making a series of changes to its Hotmail service aimed at cutting down the amount of old mail stuck on servers, falsely labeled spam.…

Check your machines for malware, Linux developers told

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:15 PM PDT

Kernel.org reopens under hacking pall

Following a series of embarrassing intrusions that hit the servers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system, project elders have advised all developers to check their Linux machines for signs of compromise.…

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