HP offers SSDs in ProLiant server line
Hewlett-Packard announced on Thursday that it will offer 60GB and 120GB SSD (solid-state disk) drives as an option across the full range of HP ProLiant G6 servers, as well as in select ProLiant G5 servers.
The SATA (serial-ATA) SSDs, from Samsung Electronics Co., are aimed at supporting virtualized environments and [...]
Hewlett-Packard announced on Thursday that it will offer 60GB and 120GB SSD (solid-state disk) drives as an option across the full range of HP ProLiant G6 servers, as well as in select ProLiant G5 servers.
The SATA (serial-ATA) SSDs, from Samsung Electronics Co., are aimed at supporting virtualized environments and I/O intensive applications where the latest HP ProLiant G6 servers are often deployed, the company said. Virtualized environments require significant memory, data storage, and network connections to optimize server performance.
Sprint Nextel is willing to invest more money in Clearwire, the WiMax operator it helped create last year, and plans to maintain its 51 percent ownership in the company, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said Thursday.
Google is hosting a language project called Noop, which initially targets the Java Virtual Machine and is intended to encourage industry best practices and discourage “worst offenses.”
Noop is pronounced noh-awp, like the machine instruction, the Noop Web page says. It is in early stages of development and is being worked on by people within Google and outside of Google, a Google representative said.
Microsoft and Yahoo are discussing their planned search collaboration with European regulators to establish whether the deal needs to be subjected to a formal merger probe, Microsoft said Thursday.
“We are having informal discussions with the European Commission,” said Jesse Verstraete, Microsoft’s senior corporate communications manager.
Cisco is lining up partners in its smart grid initiative, an effort to upgrade utility information infrastructures with Cisco routers and switches.
The United States still ranks first in the IT industry competitiveness index, but the lack of a broadband infrastructure and tightened immigration policies could threaten its lead, according to an annual study sponsored by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).
Finland, Sweden, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Singapore, and Norway follow the United States as the 10 most competitive nations in the IT field.
Mozilla has switched to a quick-paced “sprint” cycle for Firefox that it hopes will bring new features to users faster, the company’s browser architect said Wednesday.
“We decided we not only needed a way to be more nimble, but that we have a lot of great improvements we want to do every week and every month,” said Vlad Vukicevic, Firefox architect.
The near total dominance of Microsoft Office in the workplace may be getting a serious challenge from Google Docs, according to a new survey by market research firm IDC.
The study’s main finding is that about 1 in 5 companies reported that Google Docs is “widely used” in their workplace, however possibly as a compliment to Microsoft Office.
Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf repeated a call Wednesday evening for migrations to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) to stave off an anticipated lack of available addresses on IPv4.
Problems with the trackball on BlackBerry Tour phones have led to return rates near 50 percent, an analyst at TownHall Investment Research said.
Users are complaining about the issue in a number of online support forums. They say that they must roll the trackball repeatedly for it to move the cursor on the screen only minimally.
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