Dell pulled out of the race to acquire 3PAR Thursday morning after HP upped its $30-a-share bid of last Friday to $33 a share, pushing 3PAR’s valuation past $2 billion to roughly $2.1 billion. 3PAR sent out a statement Thursday morning saying that Dell went to $32 before the three-day clock ran out on it [...]
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Wednesday, ahead of finding out who its daddy was gonna be, 3PAR got sued by a little Austin, Texas outfit with a litigation trail behind it by the name of Crossroads Systems. The publicly traded Texas company accused 3PAR along with six other storage houses of infringing on its router and data storage patents in [...]
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Citrix said Wednesday that it can virtualize laptops. XenClient, the mojo it introduced in May that Intel co-developed, will offer corporate accounts a bare metal hypervisor that’s supposed to make any species of laptop centrally manageable and secure. Meanwhile, the same kind of widgetry in XenVault will be directed at the BYOC contractor crowd that’s [...]
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What comes after the Central Processing Unit (CPU), the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) and the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)? Start-up Lyric Semiconductor Inc. says it’ll be a fifth non-digital architecture that it’s inventing called the GP5. The GP5 is a chip, well, maybe more of a co-processor, meant to [...]
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Facing what looks like a tablet tsunami and already feeling stiff competition from Apple’s $499-$829 iPad, Amazon Thursday pushed its purpose-built black-on-white Kindle e-book reader into the mass market by announcing two comparatively cheap next-generation versions of the dingus, Having started at $399 in late 2007, it’s now offering a $139 model fitted with Wi-Fi [...]
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by Maureen O’Gara Monday, July 26, 2010 – The European Commission said this morning that has opened not one but two formal investigations of IBM and its mainframe business on the suspicion that Big Blue has abused its dominant position. IBM is already under investigation by the Justice Department for the same thing and the [...]
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Rackspace Hosting wants to be the one that defines the public and private commodity cloud, denying bigger competitors the chance to do it. So the other day – in the name of fostering standards, ensuring cloud interoperability and defeating vendor lock-in – it set in play OpenStack, an open source cloud platform to which it [...]
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Having forced a dominant player like Microsoft to open up some of its interfaces in the name of interoperability, the European Commission is now proposing to force any “significant” player like, oh, say, Apple and Adobe or RIM and Nokia to open up their proprietary interfaces so it can create a brave new kumbayah level [...]
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Tilera stuck its low-power Linux-running 64-core processor to Intel and AMD Tuesday in a head-on challenge to the x86′s infrastructure dominance, particularly in Web 2.0 and cloud accounts, where Tilera’s many-core design is supposed to excel at executing their millions of small parallel tasks simultaneously. Way better, it says, than the high-power legacy processors with [...]
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Starting a server company these days is like setting out to cross the cold, dark, unforgiving Atlantic in a dinky Viking long boat. It’s not an adventure for the faint of heart. The bards only tell tales about those who made landfall, not those who got swamped and drowned. And the computer industry hasn’t produced [...]
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