IBM rejigs Platform control freakery for supers |
- IBM rejigs Platform control freakery for supers
- Flexible Willow glass displays thin and curvy gadget future
- Salesforce goes social with $689m Buddy Media buy
- SanDisk mimics EMC's Lightning
- Firefox 13 now available for download
- HP doubles down with dedupe speed record
- HP freezes out SAN fabric
- Falling share price exposes NetApp
- AMD gooses the clocks on 'Bulldozer' Opterons
- Small banking Trojan poses major risk
- Hyperscale servers sell like hotcakes
- How to get a job in Australia
- Music Biz: The Man is still The Man, man
- Big Data is now TOO BIG - and we're drowning in toxic information
- El Reg's GAGA robot lawn-slasher loses its mind. For now
- Apple quietly reveals iOS' security innards
- Ten... bits of Jubilee <strike>tat</strike> tech
- NTT demos double-sided see-through smartphone
- China overestimates 3G numbers by HALF
- Microsoft douses Flame
- Chinese diplomat accused of spying on Japanese military
- Bot imitates bat for better flight
- Samsung set to roll with betting apps
- Facebook open sources production code
- SETI experiment succeeds: fails to find aliens
- Google gobbles retail reputation ranker
- R is ready for big data
| IBM rejigs Platform control freakery for supers Posted: 04 Jun 2012 03:14 PM PDT Hadoop MapReduce clone, new HPC stacks ship this monthBig Blue wants everything to be about Smarter Planet, but its acquisition of grid computing pioneer Platform Computing back in October 2011 was about giving IBM a place in the cloudy, gridded, and automated cluster management space and some necessary tools to maintain some sort of control – both literally and financially – in the modern data center.… |
| Flexible Willow glass displays thin and curvy gadget future Posted: 04 Jun 2012 03:13 PM PDT Ultra-slim sheets ready to rollCorning has been showing off a new form of flexible glass that is the thickness of a sheet of paper yet easy to mass-produce.… |
| Salesforce goes social with $689m Buddy Media buy Posted: 04 Jun 2012 01:17 PM PDT Aims for cradle-to-grave social mediaSalesforce.com has lashed out $689m on social media marketing firm Buddy Media as part of its plan to work social media deeper into its platform.… |
| SanDisk mimics EMC's Lightning Posted: 04 Jun 2012 12:15 PM PDT PCIe flash cardSanDisk has a PCIe server flash card called, as if to mimic EMC, Lightning, developed from its existing Lightning SSDs.… |
| Firefox 13 now available for download Posted: 04 Jun 2012 12:02 PM PDT Arrives one day early with New Tab and Home pagesUpdated Although its official release date is not scheduled until this Tuesday, Firefox 13 is now available on the Mozilla website.… |
| HP doubles down with dedupe speed record Posted: 04 Jun 2012 11:12 AM PDT Boosted HP no longer needs SepatonHP reckons it can claim the dedupe speed king crown, ingesting at 100TB/hour and spitting it our at 40TB/hour, faster by far than the dedupe dominator, Data Domain.… |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2012 11:00 AM PDT Directly attaches 3PAR to bladesHP is removing the need for a Fibre Channel fabric linking its 3PAR arrays and BladeSystem servers with a quasi direct-attach supplied though its Virtual Connect technology.… |
| Falling share price exposes NetApp Posted: 04 Jun 2012 08:34 AM PDT Looks vulnerableNetApp's market worth has dropped 51 per cent in 16 months, making it vulnerable to a takeover.… |
| AMD gooses the clocks on 'Bulldozer' Opterons Posted: 04 Jun 2012 08:32 AM PDT Last hurrah until 'Piledriver'?Chip giant Intel has hogged all of the headlines lately in the server racket lately, and Advanced Micro Devices this morning is trying to get a word in edge-wise with some clock speed bumps on its "Bulldozer" family of processors for server with one, two, or four sockets.… |
| Small banking Trojan poses major risk Posted: 04 Jun 2012 05:30 AM PDT Size doesn't matter, after allSecurity researchers have discovered a tiny, but highly capable banking Trojan.… |
| Hyperscale servers sell like hotcakes Posted: 04 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT Linux machines eclipse Unix boxesThe first quarter was not an easy one for the server business, according to IDC, and analysts say that 2012 is shaping up to be an interesting one. Modular servers – including traditional blades and density-optimized servers aimed at hyperscale web operators and supercomputer installations – are where the action is.… |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2012 04:30 AM PDT Diamond Jubilee washed out? US jobs data scary? Ride out the recession Down Under!Here in The Register's antipodean eyrie, we have good economic news!… |
| Music Biz: The Man is still The Man, man Posted: 04 Jun 2012 04:06 AM PDT An insider's extraordinary taleA long weekend is traditional time for gentlemen to retire to the garden shed. Even if you're not planning to do so yourself, please do spare half an hour to read what I think might be the best analysis of the music business I've read this year - or, I think, any year. It's a quite magnificent, panoramic view of the landscape with a very provocative conclusion.… |
| Big Data is now TOO BIG - and we're drowning in toxic information Posted: 04 Jun 2012 03:00 AM PDT Just why are we hoarding every last binary bit?Open ... and Shut Unless you have found a clever way of avoiding the internet completely, you no doubt have been warned that THERE IS A BIG DATA EXPLOSION! By many accounts, we are currently drowning in information - from log files to stock charts to customer profiles - and face a host of new products cropping up to help us manage the onslaught. Unfortunately, our fixation on hoarding and storing data may actually be making the problem worse, not better.… |
| El Reg's GAGA robot lawn-slasher loses its mind. For now Posted: 04 Jun 2012 02:30 AM PDT Credo: Things you can't do from the pub aren't worth doingThe weather has been working against us in the Hibernian branch of Special Projects: not only did it rain interminably for months but it then broke into blazing sunshine prompting an explosion of growth for which we were entirely unprepared. Location sensing is still under development, more on that later, but now we're racing to produce some kind of growth retardant while the grass is, quite literally, growing under our feet.… |
| Apple quietly reveals iOS' security innards Posted: 04 Jun 2012 12:45 AM PDT Cupertino promises "solid protection" against net nastiesApple has published a guide to iOS security, detailing in one place the various safeguards that stop perps p0wning fondleslabs and iPhones.… |
| Ten... bits of Jubilee <strike>tat</strike> tech Posted: 04 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT Fit for a Queen?Product round-up The Jubilee weekend has landed. All that exists now is junk, drunks, plums and parties. And we've all got an additional 48 hours off from the world, man. Here in London, though, you've never seen so much human traffic.… |
| NTT demos double-sided see-through smartphone Posted: 03 Jun 2012 11:15 PM PDT Fujitsu-made handset has transparent appealJapanese mobile operator NTT DoCoMo and computing giant Fujitsu gave smartphone fans a glimpse into the future of mobile computing at this year's Wireless Japan show, demoing a prototype Android device with a transparent, double-sided touchscreen interface.… |
| China overestimates 3G numbers by HALF Posted: 03 Jun 2012 09:54 PM PDT Domestic 3G/landline hybrid counted as pure 3G by mistakeThe Chinese government has been forced into an embarrassing u-turn after admitting that previously estimated figures for 3G subscriptions in the country were double what they should have been.… |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2012 08:59 PM PDT Redmond smothers fake certificates fingering it as the sparkMicrosoft has noticed Flame, the malware supposedly burning up the middle east and spreading like wildfire to the rest of the world, and has taken steps to stop it before becoming an uncontrollable conflagration.… |
| Chinese diplomat accused of spying on Japanese military Posted: 03 Jun 2012 08:38 PM PDT Embassy official was apparently attached to PLAA Chinese diplomat with links to the People's Liberation Army has been accused of snooping on Japanese military technology data while working in Tokyo.… |
| Bot imitates bat for better flight Posted: 03 Jun 2012 06:30 PM PDT Flying fox the model for 'BaTboT'It may be despised as the vector of a really nasty virus*, but like all bats, Australia's Grey-headed Flying Fox is an aerobatic (sorry) marvel – and it's provided part of the model for researchers trying to mimic bat flight using a combination of articulated wings and smart materials.… |
| Samsung set to roll with betting apps Posted: 03 Jun 2012 05:15 PM PDT Oz startup Two Way pushes bookies into telliesAustralian interactive TV application developer Two Way is set to deploy its betting application across Samsung's range of internet-enabled TVs, smartphones, tablets, Blu-ray players and home theatre systems.… |
| Facebook open sources production code Posted: 03 Jun 2012 04:58 PM PDT "Folly" trove full of high performance widgets hits GitHubFacebook has released Folly, a collection of what it describes as "reusable C++ library artifacts developed and used at Facebook."… |
| SETI experiment succeeds: fails to find aliens Posted: 03 Jun 2012 04:50 PM PDT 'It's only a model'If there are sentient aliens on the "habitable zone" planet circling Gliese 581, they're not calling out to us. That's the conclusion of Western Australian astronomers, who have released the results of a targeted SETI-hunt using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) to sniff out radio signals from the distant red dwarf.… |
| Google gobbles retail reputation ranker Posted: 03 Jun 2012 04:16 PM PDT KikScore gets inside Google walletGoogle has beefed up its online retailing smarts by acquiring KikScore, a US company that ascribes scores to e-commerce businesses based on their level of reputation and trustworthiness. The acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, is a Google acquire- and-shutdown special with the service being discontinued from June 28. Under the terms of the deal Google bought KikScore's service, platform, technology and other assets but will not be taking on staff or management.… |
| Posted: 03 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT Take the open road to statistical analysisStatistical analysis has been around since mainframes were introduced to academia and corporations back in the 1960s.… |
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