TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - HP BladeSystem bundle targets 1-4 terabyte market sweet spot. HP claims speed and energy efficiency advantages over Dell's alternative. -- read full article
PC Magazine - Wednesday morning, the green giant from Round Rock, Tex., announced that its forthcoming server power supplies are the world's first to be certified at the 80 Plus Gold level, meaning they achieve a staggering 92 percent efficiency. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Iona will become a wholly owned subsidiary, making it likely that its Artix Web integration and Fuse SOA product lines will continue. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Inspur Servers, the leading Chinese server maker, will sell, distribute, and support VMware's Infrastructure suite. -- read full article
AP - The (Baltimore) Sun will cut about 100 jobs, including 55 to 60 in the newsroom, through buyouts, layoffs and the closing of open positions. The latest in a series of cuts to the venerable newspaper were announced Wednesday in a memo from publisher Tim Ryan to the newspaper staff. -- read full article
Reuters - Chocolate maker Mars Inc, computer
giant IBM and the U.S. Department of Agriculture said
on Thursday they would team up to map the DNA of the cocoa tree
to try to sweeten the crop's $5 billion market.
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Location intelligence vendor adds another BI suite integration to take geospatial analysis mainstream. -- read full article
PC World - HP and Hitachi boosted blade offerings, with Hitachi upgrading blades to use new Intel chips and HP combining blade servers in... -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - With new compression, partitioning and star schema optimization features, Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 is catching up with the state of the industry in data warehousing. Here's why these three capabilities are crucial for scalability and performance on any platform. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - The Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs merges content from Google services with Salesforce.com's database, logic, and workflow capabilities. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The rack-mount designs feature twice the density of Rackable's existing systems and are aimed at financial, oil and gas, scientific research, and other organizations that need high-performance systems. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Finnish handset maker Nokia has taken GPS a step further with the announcement Monday that it is acquiring Plazes, the developer of a social-networking Web site that lets friends locate each other. -- read full article
PC World - Rackable Systems announced new "high-density" rackmount servers that provide more processing power and save electricity while... -- read full article
