Yes, Utah

The ultra-secretive National Security Agency plans to build a 1-million-square-foot data center in Utah as it seeks to decentralize its computing resources and tap regions with ample supplies of lower-cost electricity.?

12big product triple

External storage supplier LaCie has entered the rack world with a trio of products.?

Farewell Western Digital

A Western Digital plant in Sarawak, Malaysia, has been sold to Hitachi GST.?

'When life gives you apples, make applesauce'

Psystar, the Florida-based Hackintosher that's been giving Apple fits for over a year, refuses to die.?

Stretches to non-Dell iron plus servers

Looking for leverage and a few extra euros and pounds in EMEA, Dell has rolled out a set of modular services to help companies manage their PCs and - eventually - their servers.?

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

Storage controllers and disk drives

VirtenSys has enabled the sharing of LSI MegaRAID host bus adapters between servers connected to its IOV switch.?

SoC problem makes for schedule jam

An investment bank briefing note says that Seagate has suffered a setback in its solid state drive (SSD) development project and may not ship product for testing until 2010, having previously said it will announce its enterprise SSD this year.?

And it wants to build yours, too

Unisys may have not taken over the world as either a system maker or an outsourcer, but it's a player in both markets and it doesn't want the move to cloud computing to leave it behind.?

And Taiwan demands they stay sold

Taiwan consumer regulators have ordered Dell to honor an online pricing error that offered 19-inch LCD monitors for only NT$500 (US$15, £9).?

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

MacBook Air owners who haven't checked Software Update for a couple of days will now find a firmware update awaiting them there. The download adds support for the "latest service replacement batteries".?

Disclosure-style sniff-around to make backup fun again

Printer company Ricoh reckons you should be able to search visually for photos and files much like flipping through a photo album. It has started up a beta test in the USA for its snazzy quanp online storage service with 3D views of uploaded files.?

Hot-swap UltraFlex

EMC has confirmed industry suspicious that is developing a hot-swap Ultraflex FCoE module for its storage arrays.?

xVM Server left behind

Update: This story originally said that Sun had not open-sourced VirtualBox. Sun does offer an open source version?

Leaves Amazonian play to the Amazons

Well, it's the end of June, and Cisco Systems' "California" Unified Computing System blade boxes and related networking is supposed to be shipping. In a webcast today with analysts, partners, and press that's part of a two-day analyst event called Cisco Live, representatives ignored two questions from El Reg about whether or not the California boxes were still shipping, but they did want to talk about cloud computing and how California, WebEx, and networking in general fit into the company's cloud strategy.?

No chillers? No problem

Structure 09 Google is developing some sort of back-end technology that automatically - and nearly instantly - redistributes live compute loads when a data center is in danger of overheating. Or maybe this is just talk. Google prefers to at least maintain the illusion of data-center nirvana.?