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  • Microsoft boffin scoops Turing Award

    Hardware guru wins computing's 'Nobel prize'

    A Microsoft researcher has received the Turing Award in recognition for his pioneering work in personal computing hardware and networking technology development.?

  • WD targets Win XP users to ease 4KB drive upgrades

    Sector inspector

    Western Digital is to help Windows XP users more easily make the transition to so-called '4K' hard drive technology, the new standard for basic drive formatting.?

  • Sepaton in anti-Data Domain pitch

    Dual-node MS2 cluster

    Criticising the pain of single-silo deduplication products, Sepaton has introduced a dual-node clustered product that can be upgraded to its larger ES2 system.?

  • Floating IT lab mimics multi-tiered networks

    Is it real? Or is it Skytap?

    Skytap - the Jeff Bezos-backed startup that lets you mimic internal IT infrastructure in the so-called cloud - has introduced a new set of automation tools designed to facilitate the creation of complex network topologies on its floating interwebs service.?

  • Pillar juices flash drive box

    Reliability boost roadmap

    Pillar Data Axiom storage arrays can go a whole lot faster, use less energy and be more reliable, thanks to a range of new features from flash drive enclosures to pre-emptive copies.?

  • Cisco 'forever changes internet' with... a router

    322 Tbps of bandwidth (not quite) here

    How will Cisco "forever change the internet"? With a new router.?

  • Terracotta's Ehcache back-ends Hibernate

    Web Sessions gets some tweaks, too

    If you want to make money, and perhaps especially in the open source software racket, you have to keep improving your software to help it get more widely adopted among enterprise customers who get nervous if they don't hand over big wads of cash to someone to babysit the code. That's why Terracotta, a maker of systems programs that help Java applications scale, has made a number of acquisitions and has tweaked two key programs in its portfolio.?

  • Android - the winning formula for tablets and netbooks?

    It's the only game in town, says the maker of the other iPad

    What might the iPad have been? Apple announced it as a Magical and Revolutionary Device, defining "an entirely new category". But it actually only addresses a small part of the yawning gap between mobile handsets and notebook computers, where there's still a lot of defining to be done. There's space there for dramatically different reimaginations of the iPhone, for counter-attacks from handset companies, and for diverse devices based on Google's Android.?

  • Cisco promises to 'forever change the internet'

    Stock jumps as rumors fly

    Today will see Cisco making an announcement that it claims will "forever change the internet". The stock market certainly believed it, sending the IP giant's shares to their highest level in more than a year ($26.34) yesterday. Given Cisco's heritage and product strategy it has more likelihood than most of delivering on its claim, but remains tightlipped about the details - sparking rumors from a gigabit wholesale network to an extended wireless core play to a set-top box.?

  • Tilera wins VC from Broadcom, Quanta, NTT

    Cash for homegrown multicores

    Last November, El Reg told you about how multicore chip maker Tilera was lining up its third round of venture capital funding, a $25m pile of cash that would include $10m from Taiwanese PC maker and server wannabe Quanta Computer. On Monday, when the funding finally closed, it turned out that chip maker Broadcom and the financing arm of Japanese telco NTT are also kicking in some dough.?

  • Yellow Dog Linux licks CUDA

    Nvidia GPUs sit up and bark

    Remember Terra Soft and its Yellow Dog Linux for Power processors??

  • Intel investigates after retailer sold fake CPUs

    'Sochet' LGA not as good as real thing

    Updated Intel says it's investigating the sale of fake desktop processors by online electronics retailer Newegg in a scandal that's prompting outrage among customers and recriminations among sellers.?

  • iSuppli: Semi recovery a 'false spring'

    2010 revenues to barely exceed 2007

    A consensus is evolving that the semiconductor industry is going to recover mightily in 2010. But the analysts at iSuppli want to remind everyone that things are only going to feel so good this year because they were so bad in late 2008 and through 2009.?

  • 3PAR tiering faster than FAST

    Supports STEC SSD too

    Faster than EMC's FAST: you can order 3PAR's automatic data moving across storage tiers software right now. 3PAR is also adding solid state storage to its arrays.?

  • Fujitsu president was sacked, not sick

    Dodgy dealing not doctor's note behind departure

    Fujitsu has admitted that its ex-president Kuniaki Nozoe, who left the firm in September apparently due to ill health, was in fact sacked by the board of directors.?
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