EMC offers storage de-dupe and flash
Blog Looking at the storage blades in turn, the NS-120 can carry one or two blades and from 32TB to 64TB of storage and it offers failover protection for the data rather than clustering. The NS-480 offers support for two to four blades and 64 to 192TB...
[February 23, 2009, 10:40]
SNW offers the frights...
Blog And so to Frankfurt and Storage Networking World 2007 by way a visiting HP and so the week starts. The storage industry is enjoying a boom currently thanks to the requirement for IT managers to keep everything.
[October 30, 2007, 11:49]
Gizmo5 Offers Free Conference Calling
Blog Gizmo5 is offering their users free access to conference calls for up to ten participants. No tricks, no strings, you just request a conference room number, and then give that number to the others whom you want to participate in the call.
[October 23, 2008, 13:15]
Canonical offers humans to Ubuntu-using enterprise
Blog Canonical has introduced a new class of support for enterprises using Ubuntu - the Premium Service Engineer or PSE. Describing PSEs as 'virtual team members' for an enterprise's internal Ubuntu support, the company says that they'll provide direct...
[September 3, 2009, 16:12]
Juniper offers scalable network options
Blog Juniper Networks on Monday, extended its range of network firewalls with two more options for scaling networks from the mid-range to the largest networks. Aimed at the data centre but for use in networks from medium scale to high-end, Juniper...
[March 12, 2009, 15:53]
Fasthosts offers SaaS-ish MS Office
Blog Blimey - this one came in quietly. Fasthosts, the ISP and hosting company, are offering Microsoft Office on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. That means that, from £5 plus VAT per month, you can use Office as an online service with no need to...
[February 6, 2008, 15:53]
Linux Foundation offers members @linux.com perk
Blog The Linux Foundation is adding to its list of membership benefits this week by offering individual members the chance to secure a lifetime @linux.com email address. For a onetime fee of $99, members will receive their own Linux.com email address, a...
[October 13, 2009, 12:12]
Offers by SMS? Always read the small print...
Blog Earlier in the month David Meyer reported on Vodafone's summer roaming promotion, where you can call in certain countries at no extra cost. As a Vodafone customer I've just received an SMS telling me about the promotion, only it simply says that...
[May 22, 2009, 12:13]
Microsoft offers downloadable Blue Screen of Death
Blog Want to pretend your machine's crashed? Well, this is your opportunity, as Microsoft has brought us a download of its famous Blue Screen of Death. Available from Microsoft's own site, it even checks your system config to replicate a real system crash.
[November 9, 2006, 15:36]
HP launches all-in-one data system Matrix
Blog HP has launched data BladeSystem Matrix as a converged system that offers software, server, storage and networking in one package intended to make it easy to install a complete data centre solution, the company said.
[April 21, 2009, 5:59]
Seagate launch drive with 500GB on single platter
Blog The Seagate drive offers 500GB on a single platter of its 3.5in, 7200RPM Barracuda 7200.12 HD drive which come standard with two disks on a 1TB drive. Its sales point is that it offers a lot of storage space for a low cost.
[January 7, 2009, 11:47]
Vodafone launches 50p PAYG daily surfing rate
Blog The operator 3 offers a daily rate of 50p, but that involves ordering a bolt-on that functions for 24 hours from the time of ordering. Still, Vodafone's deal offers better value than O2, which has no daily rate - their PAYG customers either have to...
[May 1, 2009, 16:40]
Citrix goes virtual with Xen Desktop
Blog While server virtualisation is already in use across the industry, desktop virtualisation has been slower to catch on in the entrprise, while, on paper at least, it potentially offers dramatic efficiencies.
[April 14, 2008, 16:53]
Extreme Networks BD8500 edge switch modules
Blog It offers optional eight 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit ports for connection to a second, redundant management module. A Gigabit fibre module, the BlackDiamond 8500-G24X-e, offers 24 ports in the form of small form-factor pluggable transceivers.
[October 7, 2009, 10:48]
MobileMoney:Africa's 11
Blog WIZZIT solves not only an accessibility and affordability issue but from a convenience point of view offers 24/7 real time transactions and hence is “Your Bank in Your Pocket. M-PESA offers a very simple and secure customer proposition.
[May 19, 2009, 16:21]
Mobile Linux Could Open Door For Universal Mobile Torrents
Blog As mobile torrents are in their forming days, the mobile Linux platform offers a glimpse of hope for developers. The industry movement towards mobile Linux OS offers great hope for inciting the next stages of UMT development.
[December 12, 2007, 20:19]
Opportunities and Challenges of WAP media in Nigeria.
Blog Millions in Nigeria are accessing the internet via the WAP platform alone in a country with an internet penetration of 6% and Mobile penetration of 40%.Wap offers the easiest and most affordable for millions in the fastest growing Mobile market in...
[July 22, 2008, 9:42]
Samsung has SSD with full encryption
Blog Other benefits include Wave Systems' management software, Embassy Trusted Drive Manager which offers remote management. Trusted Drive Manager also offers backup of a drive's credentials. Using technology from Wave Systems, Samsung on Thursday...
[April 17, 2009, 17:19]
Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML
Blog It is also incompatible with the existing ISO standard ISO 26300:2006, the Open Document Format (ODF), which already offers a high degree of interoperability, wide support, and offers the level playing field the world needs.
[September 18, 2007, 17:16]
LinkedIn and the one way street on social graph portability
Blog Facebook offers it, so does MySpace, Twitter, Xing, Hi5, Friendfeed and even LinkedIn itself. To be perfectly clear, LinkedIn offers exactly the same functionality on its own site so its users can collect e-mail addresses from Google Mail, AOL...
[April 2, 2009, 14:02]



