Steve Jobs' death clears way for rumoured 4in 'iPhone 5' screen

17 May 2012 12:18:12 Z

Apple places order for large display, claim sources

The next Apple iPhone will have an enlarged 4-inch screen, according to well-placed anonymous sources.?

HP frogmarches new Xeon, Opteron chips into ProLiants

17 May 2012 11:21:13 Z

Wants world+dog to know that it's also using E5-2400 two-socketeers

In the wake of Intel's launch of the entry Xeon E5-2400 processors for two-socket servers earlier this week, X86 server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard wants to keep its name in the mind of customers who might be shopping for systems from rivals Dell, IBM or Fujitsu.?

Crooks sell skint fanbois potatoes instead of iPhones

17 May 2012 09:44:03 Z

'I wanted an Apple, not a vegetable'

Greater Manchester police are appealing for help after a number of people who thought they were laying hands on a shiny new iPhone ended up with a sack of spuds instead.?

Boffins smash 3Gbps speed barrier with 542GHz T-Rays

17 May 2012 08:19:06 Z

Sky's the limit in terahertz territory

Japanese geniuses have maintained a 3Gbit/s radio link at 542GHz, opening up more of the electromagnetic spectrum to the voracious appetite of wireless data.?

Asia leads global BYOD race

17 May 2012 04:15:14 Z

IT managers jump on the bandwagon

Asian IT professionals are racing ahead of their global rivals when it comes to implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies in their organisations, according to new research from BT.?

Nvidia shows off superjuiced Kepler GPU

16 May 2012 17:27:03 Z

From workhouse to racehorse

HPC blog  There were quite a few surprises in today?s GTC12 keynote by NVIDIA CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang.?

Speaking in Tech: The worst government IT deal of ALL TIME

16 May 2012 15:59:09 Z

The one about the oversized Cisco routers

Podcast  It's the eighth episode of our enterprise tech podcast ? and it's a special one. The podcast is split up into two parts: in the first part, your hosts interview a journalist investigating the State of West Virginia's absurd purchase of drastically oversized Cisco routers ? it's an incredible story you have to hear to believe.?

Pure pushes flash stash, mocks spinning disk with YouTube gag

16 May 2012 14:19:05 Z

Cheap as NAND chips

Vid  Pure Storage is pushing the idea that its deduped flash array is cheaper than tier one enterprise disk array storage but miles faster and more reliable.?

Real-time drone videos get GPU-tastic

16 May 2012 12:02:10 Z

Swimming in sensors, drowning in data

HPC blog  Here at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2012), you see a lot of things that you didn?t think were quite possible yet. Case in point: cleaning up surveillance video.?

Dell feeds Xeon E5s to hungry new PowerEdge beasts

16 May 2012 10:28:09 Z

Cheaper duos and quads, so we hear

Dell has added nine new Xeon E5-powered boxes to its PowerEdge 12G lineup as it chases the booming market for quad-socket machines in Asia.?

The Incredible 4PB Hulk: EMC monsterises VMAX

16 May 2012 10:14:11 Z

Last big primary data array push before flash tsunami

EMC has gained top datacentre dog bragging rights with a coming 4 petabyte VMAX 40K storage array, storing 60 per cent more than HDS's biggest VSP array and 74 per cent more than IBM's DS8000. This is possibly one of the last massive primary data arrays before flash takes over the primary data storage universe*.?

EMC rounds up rival arrays, beats 'em into submission

16 May 2012 09:41:12 Z

You will work with each other

EMC VMAX arrays will team up competing drive arrays with a new version of the VMAX Enginuity OS.?

Hitachi GST releases skinny spinner

16 May 2012 08:02:12 Z

Slim slow slider

Western Digital's latest acquisition, Hitachi GST, has released a skinny single platter drive for consumer electronics devices.?

75,000 Raspberry Pi baked before August

16 May 2012 05:50:56 Z

Distie says Arduino sales 'overtaken in an instant'

RS Components, one of two distributors for the Raspberry Pi, says the 75,000 of the tiny computers are burbling through the manufacturing supply chain and will be ready for release ?in July to August?.?

Apple places massive DRAM order at Elpida plant - report

16 May 2012 03:55:48 Z

Memory-hungry fondleslabs and iPhones the culprits

Apple has taken a punt on bankrupt Japanese DRAM manufacturer Elpida, placing orders for a whopping 50 per cent of the firm?s production of chips at its Hiroshima facility, according to Digitimes.?

Graphics shocker: Nvidia virtualizes Kepler GPUs

16 May 2012 02:11:41 Z

VGX revs virty desktops, fluffs gamy clouds, changes everything

GTC 2012  You game-console makers who still want to be in the hardware business, look out. You console makers who don't want to be in the hardware business (this might mean you, Microsoft), you can all breathe a sigh of relief: after a five-year effort,­ Nvidia is adding graphics virtualization to its latest "Kepler" line of GPUs.?

Nvidia's Kepler pushes parallelism up to eleven

15 May 2012 19:00:10 Z

Hyper-Q and Dynamic Parallelism make GPUs sweat

GTC 2012  When Nvidia did a preview of its next-generation "Kepler" GPU chips back in March, the company's top brass said that they were saving some of the goodies in the Kepler design for the big event at Nvidia's GPU Technical Conference in San Jose, which runs this week. And true to its word, the Kepler GPUs do have some goodies that will make them considerably more useful for graphics and HPC compute workloads.?

US Supremes hammer final nail into Psystar coffin

15 May 2012 18:22:42 Z

The fat lady croons doom tune over hackintosher's corpse

The long and sordid Psystar saga creaked to its anti-climactic close on Monday: the US Supreme Court has refused to hear the hackintosher's request to review an appeals court's September 2011 decision not to overturn a December 2009 permanent injunction preventing the Florida company from selling Mac OS X?based clones.?

Kepler chip drought leaves Nvidia gasping for moolah

15 May 2012 15:29:06 Z

Profit halved in Q1, everyone wants a piece of TSMC

Supply shortages for 28 nanometer GPUs from fab partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp adversely impacted GPU chip and coprocessor maker Nvidia once again in its most recent quarter.?

The key questions you must ask to save your virty desktop dream

15 May 2012 15:03:06 Z

Shifting to stateless? Don't turn it into a nightmare

Sysadmin blog  What is required for a successful stateless desktop deployment? Planning. Every implementation will be different, and experience has taught me that there are very few hard and fast rules.?

VMware puts on new vFabric suite, takes your database on a date

15 May 2012 12:37:05 Z

Virty giant gets flirty with PostgreSQL

VMware pretty much owns the virtualization layer on X86 iron inside of enterprises, but it has a long way to go to get the same kind of uptake for its vFabric application framework.?

Flashy mutant Ultrabooks to shove pure SSD chaps off cliff

15 May 2012 07:29:09 Z

Ultrabook makers will embrace hybrid trend

Storage industry research firm TrendFocus says Ultrabooks will increasingly use hybrid disk drives for their near-SSD speed, HDD capacity and ability to undercut pure SSD Ultrabook prices. Seagate thinks hybrid drives will eventually enter every part of its product portfolio.?

AMD: New Trinity laptop chips out-juice Intel graphics

15 May 2012 05:00:07 Z

'Ultrabook? Fuggedaboutit. Ultrathin is in'

Laptop manufacturers hoping to flog ultrabooks ? or, as Intel has trademarked them, Ultrabooks? ? may be able to shave their prices a bit now that AMD has released its second-generation A-Series accelerated processing units (APUs), code-named "Trinity".?

Buffalo ships world's first 1.3Gbps Wi-Fi hardware

14 May 2012 18:37:45 Z

Edges out Netgear in 802.11ac race

If you've been jonesing for faster Wi-Fi performance ? not that you have any client devices that can yet take advantage of next-generation wireless networking technology ? your wait is over: Buffalo has begun shipping the industry's first 802.11ac router and bridge.?

Nvidia launches Nsight CUDA dev tools into Eclipse

14 May 2012 18:01:58 Z

Visual Studio tools get some polish, too

GTC 2012  Nvidia kicked off its GPU Technical Conference today by launching an updated version of its Nsight development platform that wraps around the CUDA compiler set and now interfaces with Eclipse-based integrated development environments.?

EMC gobbled XtremeIO to Xterminate NetApp, says Xpert

14 May 2012 15:34:05 Z

And Fusion-io 'a mosquito they could squash at any time'

A financial analyst reckons EMC bought XtremIO to fend off the threat posed by NetApp.?

Intel goes wide and deep with Xeon E5 assault

14 May 2012 15:14:11 Z

Blunting AMD's advantages

If you were planning on buying new servers in the coming weeks and months, Intel just gave you a whole lot of homework. And if you work at Advanced Micro Devices, you're getting some homework, too.?

Intel woos microserver makers with Xeon E3-1200 v2 singlers

14 May 2012 15:03:02 Z

Ivy Bridge better for baby boxes

For a company that had to be dragged to the microserver space ? though not exactly kicking and perhaps muttering instead of screaming ? Intel has certainly taken a shining to the market and is not about to give X86 rival Advanced Micro Devices and the army of ARM RISC server wannabes any chance of getting a toehold in this nascent but fast-growing part of the market. Particularly after AMD bought microserver poster child SeaMicro in February.?

StorSimple, TwinStrata join in HP Cloud love-in

14 May 2012 07:02:03 Z

.44 cloud magnum could blow your SAN head clean off - punk

Cloud storage gateway suppliers are cosy-ing up to HP with both StorSimple and TwinStrata emphasising their HP Cloud Storage creds.?

Overclockers to fight for global supremacy

14 May 2012 05:57:32 Z

Keep an eye on your servers as 'Chimp challenge' hits Folding@home

Overclocking enthusiasts around the world spent the weekend topping up their coolant tanks and tuning their rigs with unusual fervour, as they prepared to go into battle in the annual Chimp Challenge.?

Egenera runs virty tools on IBM BladeCenters

11 May 2012 19:09:10 Z

Control freak spans the Big Three in blades now

Egenera, the virtualized server infrastructure pioneer, has certified its PAN Manager control freakery to run on IBM's BladeCenter blade servers.?

GTC 2012: Not your average vendo-loveathon

11 May 2012 18:04:03 Z

Why I geek out for GTC

HPC blog  One of my very favorite industry events is coming up next week: the NVIDIA-organised GPU Technology Conference, aka GTC 2012. I?ve been in the tech industry for almost 20 years; roughly half that time was spent working for The Man in vendor firms, and the other half at my own boutique industry analyst firm. Not surprisingly, I?ve been to a lot of vendor-sponsored conferences. I?ve helped organise some and have had speaking slots at quite a few, so I know the drill.?

AppSense revs up user virt tools to 8.4

11 May 2012 17:01:19 Z

Quick and easy

AppSense figured out that managing users was a headache long before virtual desktop infrastructure became a possibility for enterprises. The company has spent the last decade evolving user management tools that spanned many different kinds of systems and application virtualization layers, such as the Citrix Presentation Server (now XenApp) and Microsoft App-V, as well as physical Windows servers. But as is the case with all software; it can always be made easier to use and faster to deploy as well as expanded into new areas of relevancy.?

Xyratex jumps out of drive drawers... onto converged racks

11 May 2012 16:03:12 Z

Puts money on supercomputing storage growth

Following a slump in sales of its disk drive array drawers, Xyratex is moving into clustered and converged compute, storage and networking HPC racks, with Cray as a lead customer.?

Whiptail flashes new kit, launches 72TB storage monster

11 May 2012 15:01:16 Z

Little and large

Whiptail, the flash array startup from Whippany, New Jersey, has boosted and renamed its XLR8r flash array, and launched a 72TB flash storage monster called INVICTA.?

Twin-track development plan for Intel's expansion into smartphones

11 May 2012 02:26:01 Z

Android-optimization is key to beating Apple

Intel is planning a two-pronged attack on the smartphone and tablet markets, with dual Atom lines going down to 14 nanometers and Android providing the special sauce to spur sales.?

Intel plans massive push around touchy-feely Ultrabooks

10 May 2012 22:40:55 Z

Biggest launch in nearly a decade

Intel is planning its biggest marketing campaign since the launch of Centrino in 2003 in an attempt to make Ultrabook laptops and tablet-hybrids more attractive to buyers.?

Intel CEO predicts DOOM for fab industry and competitors

10 May 2012 18:03:36 Z

We'll be top dog for years, Otellini tells investors

The semiconductor industry is at a major inflection point Intel's CEO Paul Otellini predicted today at the company's analyst day, with the increasing cost of manufacturing causing a shake-out among the biggest chip players that, he said, would only leave two or three companies at the leading edge of chip design.?

New SGI CEO builds firewall around unprofitable sales

10 May 2012 17:51:11 Z

Inks $27.8m, 1.5 petaflops DoD deal with Uncle Sam

SGI tapped a new CEO, Jorge Titinger, back at the end of February to get the company back on an even keel, and in the wake of SGI's reporting its financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2012, Titinger conceded that he has his work cut out for him because SGI, like many other server makers from time to time, has been focusing a little too much on revenue growth and not enough on the bottom line.?

IBM taps new execs to run Power Systems, mainframes

10 May 2012 17:01:05 Z

Potential future CEO moves on up the corporate ladder

The executive who has been running IBM's combined Power Systems and System z mainframe units has taken a new high-level position working out Big Blue's overall strategy for the future for new CEO Ginni Rometty, and the company has appointed new leaders for its Power and mainframe units in the wake of that appointment.?

Nimbus boots EVA out of Mitsubishi

10 May 2012 07:02:05 Z

SAP flies on flash

Mitsubishi Power Systems' Americas (MPSA) says its SAP applications positively fly using flash arrays from an industry newbie ? after being hamstrung on HP storage.?

WD bigshots spin superfast disk roadmap

09 May 2012 20:06:03 Z

Hybrids and tech transitions

Western Digital's disk drive roadmap has hybrids and tech transitions coming to shrink I/O latency and regain fast areal density growth.?

Dell gives microservers an Ivy Bridge boost

09 May 2012 18:04:06 Z

Cloudy things come in smaller thermal packages

Dell's PowerEdge server line is once again trying to get out in front of Intel, announcing that its PowerEdge-C family of microservers are revved up with the new Ivy Bridge Xeon E3 processors, which the chip giant is launching soon.?

Biz prof disses Big Data as a fetish for info hoarders

09 May 2012 16:02:03 Z

Not a good model for success, says doc

HPC blog  When it comes to Big Data, I?m as geeked out as the next guy ? if not a little more so. For the last three years or so, I?ve been telling anyone who will listen (and plenty of people who won?t) that Big Data and enterprise analytics are the "next big thing" both in business and computing. Today, it?s widely accepted that Big Data is going to make big changes to our world.?

Cisco hits the roof in Olympics marketing dash

09 May 2012 12:32:06 Z

Not just 3D, but Fry-D?

Cisco has thrown open its Olympics hospitality suite, giving partners and customers both a panoramic view of the Olympic Park and an up-close, 3D view of Stephen Fry loitering on a London Underground platform.?

Speaking in Tech: VMware polishes post-PC virty tools

09 May 2012 09:19:03 Z

This time it's virtual...

Podcast  It's time for another Speaking in Tech enterprise and tech biz roundup, with The Dude of enterprise tech, Greg Knieriemen, cloud and storage meister Ed Saipetch and web2.0 insider Sarah Vela. Our special guest this week is John Mark Troyer, the director of social media evangelism at VMware.?

AMD's Hondo APUs ready for Windows 8 Q4 launch - report

09 May 2012 04:40:09 Z

Chip giant's tablet-friendly silicon on the way

Chip giant AMD is set to debut its 32nm Trinity APUs in notebooks later this month, while the firm?s tablet-friendly Hondo chips will hit the streets in the fourth quarter to coincide with the much-anticipated launch of Windows 8, Digitimes has learnt.?

Google's self-driving car snags first-ever license in Nevada

08 May 2012 18:38:54 Z

Gambling state lets Google spin its wheels

The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has issued the first license plates that will allow Google's autonomous cars onto public highways.?

Secret's out: Small 15K disk drive market is 'growing'

08 May 2012 17:02:09 Z

Not just flash and trash

The market for small and fast disk drives is actually growing ? rather than shrinking, as flash array vendors are enthusiastically implying.?

CCS to dish out Tony Sale award for computer restoration

08 May 2012 15:37:07 Z

Crypto-machine rebuilder honoured with new annual prize

Renowned Colossus-rebuilder Tony Sale has inspired a new international award for computer conservation, which will be handed out for the first time this year.?