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2009-07-03
The Department of Justice confirms its investigation into whether Google's $125 million Book Search settlement violates U.S. antitrust laws. Opponents fear the agreement gives the search engine giant too much power in the digital book world. The fairness hearing is set for October 7, 2009.
2009-07-02
EXCLUSIVE: The FAA, which has suffered a series of embarrassing flight-plan system crashes during the last several years, has upgraded its legacy flight-plan filing system to a new open-systems server and storage infrastructure supplied by Stratus Technologies. This architecture is now replacing critical systems that directly affect all air travelers in the United States.
2009-07-02
As we do at six- or 12-month intervals here at eWEEK, we offer a short list of key continuing trends in data storage, based upon daily conversations with storage vendors, analysts, data center managers, CIOs and CTOs -- even a few former industry executives now blissfully retired and simply watching this evolution with continued amazement.
2009-07-02
Cisco and VMware are working on a proof-of-concept around the idea of using VMware’s VMotion technology to move live virtual machines between multiple data centers, a capability that would aid in such areas as load balancing, data center maintenance and disaster avoidance. The two companies demonstrated the proof-of-concept during the Cisco Live show. However, VMware officials warn that more work needs to be done to make the concept a reality.
2009-07-01
Similar to what it is doing with the delivery of power through its Smart Grid project, Cisco is now turning to its networking capabilities to help drive down power consumption in buildings. At its Cisco Live event, Cisco launches its Smart Connected Buildings program and rolls out the first deliverable, the Network Building Mediator, which will monitor energy systems throughout a building and give managers the information they need to make those buildings more energy-efficient.
2009-07-01
The U.S. Department of Energy is developing several training certificate programs for data center managers that will focus on energy efficiency. Goals of the new program are grand: Save Energy Now aims to reduce energy use in U.S. data centers by a full 10 percent in only two years.
2009-07-01
In an attempt to make it easier for businesses to bring VMware virtualization into their data centers, IBM is offering a special financing package for its System x and BladeCenter servers bundled with VMware's vSphere 4 virtualization platform. Key to the financing package is the trading of up-front costs for monthly payments on systems as low as $5,000. One analyst says by eliminating the up-front costs the IBM financing deal removes a key barrier to virtualization adoption.
2009-07-01
StatCounter says Microsoft's Bing search engine grabbed more than 8 percent share of U.S. Web searches in June. The news could be an anomaly or a sign that Bing is luring users from Google, Yahoo and other search engines. Microsoft has bet big on Bing as it seeks to grab a piece of Google's massive Web services user base.
2009-07-01
Zoho Projects 2.0 adds messaging and collaboration functionality to the project management suite. The suite is a cloud computing package delivered via the Internet, competing with software from Microsoft, Intuit and startups such as LiquidPlanner and Clarizen at a time when managing projects online has become a popular practice.
2009-07-01
Lenovo's updated line of ThinkServers offers cost-conscious businesses expanded memory and are equipped for virtualization. Lenovo also is touting the line's power-saving features.
2009-06-30
As the archiver of new high-definition digital photos of the moon that will begin transmitting this week from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Nirvanix will be storing a large number of 2GB photos. The mission has been described as America's first step to the lasting return to the moon.
2009-06-30
Google reports it has fixed its broken Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook plug-in, a messaging and collaboration software module geared to let Microsoft users access their Gmail e-mail, contacts and calendar content through Outlook. The move is a bid to get customers of enterprise applications off of their Exchange servers and stored in Google's cloud computing environment.
2009-06-30
China has delayed indefinitely a much-criticized plan to force manufacturers to bundle Internet filtering software with personal computers sold in the country, in an abrupt retreat hours before the policy was due to start July 1.
2009-06-30
The Pirate Bay, the free file-sharing Website, has been bought by Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB. The company said it would find ways to compensate copyright owners for downloaded material.
2009-06-29
The new-generation video platform will deliver streaming video and move various content across multiple mediums, including online, mobile networks and IPTV-enabled set-top boxes.
2009-06-29
The Supreme Court decision opens the way for cable companies to offer remote storage digital video recording services such as Cablevision's RS-DVR. Film studios and major broadcast networks say RS-DVRs violate the copyright on their content.
2009-06-29
The federal government decides to spend more time performing due diligence on the proposed Oracle-Sun merger, perhaps 30 to 60 more days. Sun says this is not unexpected due to the size of the IT infrastructure transaction.
2009-06-29
Colligo Networks, which specializes in making IBM Lotus Notes and Microsoft SharePoint messaging and collaboration suites more efficient, releases Contributor for SharePoint 4.0 with two new applications, one for file management and one for bringing Microsoft Outlook data into SharePoint. Colligo aims to make SharePoint more usable to help Microsoft compete with IBM, Google and Zoho.
2009-06-29
Uptime Software announces an updated version of the company’s systems management software for cost-conscious businesses.
2009-06-26
UPDATED: EMC extends its all-cash offer of $1.8 billion to purchase all outstanding shares of Data Domain common stock for $30 per share. NetApp's putting $1.9 billion on the table, but its offer is a combination of cash and stock.
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REVIEW: The Dot Hill 2722 is a 2U RAID storage array that can house as many as 24 2.5-inch drives accessible via dual 4Gb Fibre Channel controllers. eWEEK Labs' tests show that the system is a solid step into the smaller 2.5-inch form factor, with an easy-to-use GUI, good performance and a high-availability architecture.
Flexibility, extensibility, thorough management capabilities and first-class performance make the HP LeftHand P4300 4.8TB SAS Starter SAN Solution an excellent choice for midrange and above iSCSI storage.
REVIEW: With miSAN D, Cybernetics establishes the right balance of price and features for the price-conscious iSCSI SAN shopper. Where other SAN manufacturers pack innumerable features into their products, Cybernetics focuses on providing only those features you’re likely to use: volume snapshots, internal RAID, full device redundancy and device-to-device replication.
TECH ANALYSIS: IBM could help its flagging storage business by buying Sun, which has boosted its tape storage portfolio through the StorageTek acquisition and has been innovating throughout its storage line. IBM also would be able to take advantage of the growing desire among many enterprises to migrate their mission-critical applications off costly mainframes and onto a more open platform, such as Sun’s OpenSolaris and Open Storage. And they could use IBM Global Services to do the migration work.
Tech Analysis: Under pressure from the growing mountain of data, enterprises are taking a look at data deduplication as a way of reducing storage costs and increasing efficiency. Vendors such as IBM, EMC, Data Domain and NetApp are offering some form of data deduplication capabilities. But there are questions that need to be answered before an enterprise makes the jump to data deduplication.
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