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BT slashes hundreds of broadband trigger levels
News We've managed to cut these trigger levels because we've achieved a reduction in the cost of re-engineering the backhaul, such as by using a different connection route or by activating fibre that wasn't in play before," a BT Wholesale spokesman...
[January 24, 2003, 11:35]
EMC revs up its matrix
News Hitachi also plans to announce an increase in connectivity, offering up to 64 Fibre Channel connections at 2GB per second. EMC is expected to announce next week a long-awaited overhaul of its high-end products as it moves to narrow the performance...
[January 30, 2003, 14:57]
Fujitsu Primergy RX300 S5 review
Reviews The RX300 S5 can be equipped with an impressive seven PCI Express slots for further expansion — one more than HP's ProLiant DL380 G6 and the Sun Fire X4275 — with a number of Ethernet and Fibre Channel HBAs on the Fujitsu pricelist as optional...
[August 20, 2009, 12:38]
Citrix releases cloud suite, new XenServer 5
News The new management console supports storage environments including NAS (network attached storage), DAS (direct attached storage) and SAN (storage area networks), over both fibre channel and iSCSI. Citrix Systems has launched a cloud-computing suite...
[September 15, 2008, 14:59]
Sony plans to ride out economic slump
News Last year, Sony executives predicted that fibre-optic broadband networks in the home would become fairly ubiquitous by 2003. Despite the economic slump, Sony Electronics will try to maintain its double-digit growth in the United States this year by...
[April 4, 2001, 10:03]
EMC unveils new high-end storage
News The company also plans to announce an increase in connectivity, offering up to 64 Fibre Channel connections at 2GB per second. As expected, storage systems maker EMC on Monday introduced its Symmetrix Direct Matrix Architecture system.
[February 3, 2003, 14:20]
UK's National Digital Infrastructure 'needs improving'
News It's fibre-based, so the only constraint is the speed of light. The UK Government agency that promotes the use of ICT in schools has admitted that Britain's educational digital infrastructure needs significant improvement.
[January 23, 2006, 13:10]
Google's revenue (almost) doubles
News Observers have tried to piece together reports of Google buying up unused fibre optic cabling and its investment in a provider of broadband over power-line technology, among other moves. Google saw its third-quarter revenue nearly double from a...
[October 21, 2005, 11:00]
Dell sets out new product strategy
News On a similar front, Dell also announced new Dell/EMC mid-range storage arrays with dual-mode Fibre Channel and iSCSI technology, the UltraScale CX3-30 and CX3-40, and the PowerVault MD1000 removable storage drive for backup and restore.
[November 8, 2006, 15:45]
The atoms went marching in one by one
News A week before that, IBM and University of Toronto researchers said they had devised a way to get light out of carbon nanotubes, a technique that could benefit the development of fibre-optic technology.
[May 16, 2003, 9:19]
Dell targets SME market with storage server
News We will continue to offer Fibre Channel with our great partner, EMC," Michael Dell said. On Monday, Dell hosted a worldwide launch for a new storage server that it hopes will be the key to the small- and medium-sized business market.
[September 11, 2007, 16:35]
Cloud computing for SMEs? Don't make me laugh...
Blog Roll on universal fibre. Storage in the cloud. Has a nice cosy feel to it doesn't it? And it could save you money, they say. But is it real? If you're a small business, it could just mean that you keep your backups on a simple storage service...
[June 25, 2009, 18:34]
Broadband takes to the sky
News The 30-millisecond latency of Helios-centred communications is comparable to that of fibre optics. The world's first unmanned plane intended as a telecom tower in the sky is attracting interest as a new way to get broadband Internet connections to...
[August 14, 2001, 9:45]
Akamai, Chartered Semi IPOs take off
News The company wires buildings with fibre optic cable. IPO Akamai rocketed up 458 percent to 145 3/16 -- a gain of 119 3/16 for the session. The company priced shares at $26 (£16) each Thursday night, well above its increased $16-$18 range for trading...
[November 1, 1999, 11:41]
Second half outlook: Five business models to watch
News There's a reason folks are spending billions on revenueless fibre optic companies. Oh sure, hindsight is 20/20. Any fool can see today that selling goods for less than you paid for them isn't sustainable.
[July 10, 2000, 13:11]
Lacey's Paper Round - the week's best IT coverage in print
News The Daily Telegraph reports on a BT's "realignment of our investment away from narrow band strategy.The really important thing is that we don't have to dig up the roads again, because we started laying the right type of cable five years ago: as...
[February 5, 1999, 14:03]
The Swedish datacentre with a bunker mentality
News You can use optical fibre for solar-capture outdoors, and pipe real sunlight indoors," he said. The underground facility, with tropical plants, a waterfall and craggy granite walls, has been built in a former bunker designed to survive a near miss...
[December 5, 2008, 16:01]
IBM sharpens its blades
News The Fibre Channel switch for connecting the servers to a storage system is also incorporated into the rack. IBM will unsheathe its first blade servers on Tuesday, and with them a strategy for applying the blade concept to the design of networking...
[September 24, 2002, 13:27]
Intel showcases new technologies
News Today photons carry data across long distances with fibre optics, but Intel is among those that believe it will eventually travel direct from one chip to another, with transceivers built into the silicon chips to send and receive light pulses.
[June 22, 2009, 13:19]
IBM enlarges T-Rex
News Linux partitions on the z990 will be able to communicate with networked storage systems using Fibre Channel technology. IBM will announce two new higher-end models of its z990 mainframe on Tuesday along with a promotion to coax customers to try...
[October 7, 2003, 12:30]
