The Register - HardwareBiting the hand that feeds ITGoogle urged to make a more loving cloud- June 25, 2008 Open source BigTable and improve fluffiness, please Structure 08 Yes, Google has opened its cloud to every developer down on earth. But for some, it's not quite as open as it should be.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/google_app_engine_and_open... North Carolina will pay IBM $750,000 for 10 jobs- June 25, 2008 Great BBQ and strip clubs for execs too North Carolina will do just about anything to keep technology companies happy, including offering IBM up to $750,000 to bring just 10 jobs to the state.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/ibm_north_carolina_data_ce... Dell develops ultra-efficient server power supplies- June 25, 2008 80 Plus gives them a gold sticker Dell is fussing over itself again for being such a brilliant shade of eco-friendly green. No surprise. We dare say Michael Dell himself weeps a single tear of amber when you drop a paper coffee cup into the trash.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/dell_80_plus_gold_power_su... Utility computing's 'dirty little secret'- June 25, 2008 No license to print money Structure 08 Cloud computing has its very own catch-22. If we can tap into the cloud, grabbing our compute resources on the fly, we can free ourselves from the old school software licensing models. But old school software licensing models may prevent us from tapping into the cloud.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/att_cloud_computing_dirty_... Maxdata goes titsup- June 25, 2008 Slumping revenues Maxdata has gone bust. The German computer manufacturer filed for insolvency proceedings at the Local Court in Essen today.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/25/maxdata_files_for_involven... Rackable's super efficient gear fills the cloud- June 24, 2008 Proud to be dense In a weird sort of way, you can think of this as Rackable Systems 2.0.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/24/rackable_fresh_gear/ Cisco ignites the web via WAAS and deformed arms- June 24, 2008 More Data Center 3.0 contemplation It's time again for Cisco's annual customer conference, Cisco Live! in Orlando. Better dust off that old Sadville avatar, networking fans, these things curiously get beamed in at Linden Lab's infamous soul dump Second Life.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/24/cisco_live_2008/ Data Domain sends de-duped files into unalterable state- June 23, 2008 Mommy, Wow! Feds are happy now Data Domain is teaching its de-duplication boxes a new storage retention trick to satisfy those picky government regulatory-types when they come sniffing the machinery.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/data_domain_retention_lock... Sun's Niagara 3 will have 16-cores and 16 threads per core- June 23, 2008 256 thread per socket rocket Exclusive Sun Microsystems looks poised to lead the "mainstream" multi-core race for at least a couple more years. By late 2009, the server maker should deliver a third major revision of its Niagara processor which will have 16 cores and an astonishing 16 threads per core, The Register has learned.http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/sun_niagara_k2/ HP duplicates deduplication- June 23, 2008 Redundancy cruncher for the big boys Adds different enterprise deduplication product alongside SME D2D oneshttp://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/23/hp_duplicates_deduplicatio... |