Monthly Archives: February 2008
Google Goes Cabling with Telcos
When rumors surfaced last fall that Google and a handful of companies were planning to create a submarine fiber-optic cable to pipe data across...
Pakistan Drops the BGP Bomb
A recent Newsweek cover story called Pakistan "the most dangerous country in the world." The writers don't even know the half of it.A few...
Salesforce Says No to Silverlight
SAN FRANCISCO - Despite using Adobe's Flash, Flex and AIR technologies, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff said he has no interest in Microsoft's competing Silverlight...
Hyper-V Delay May Slow Windows Server 2008 Adoption
LOS ANGELES-Enterprises are likely to hold off deploying Windows Server 2008 until the final hypervisor product, known as Hyper-V, is made available sometime in...
Sun Completes $1B Buyout of MySQL
Sun Microsystems officials said they are ready to start working with MySQL customers and developers after finalizing its $1 billion acquisition of the open-source...
EMC Upping Prices for MozyPro Online Backup
EMC, owner of the MozyPro online backup service since fall of 2007, sent e-mail notices to its customers on Feb. 25 saying prices for...
Goldman Sachs Predicts Downturn in U.S. IT Spending
LAS VEGAS - Goldman Sachs is putting a decidedly bleak spin on its U.S. IT spending outlook for the remainder of 2008.At the company's...
IBM Continues Transforming Its Mainframe
NEW YORK-The latest installment of IBM's "Big Iron" product has landed with a splash and the company is trying to turn that into a...
HP Upgrades Midrange Storage Arrays
Hewlett-Packard, continuing to invest heavily in products for the midrange storage market, Feb. 26 introduced an upgrade of its best-selling Fibre Channel SAN disk...
Silicon Valley Losing Its Middle Class
The effects of a sub-prime mortgage crisis, financial market volatility and a shifting global economy are disproportionately affecting midwage technology workers in Silicon Valley.In...