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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/" target="_self">The Register - Hardware</a><br /><span class="rss-item">Biting the hand that feeds IT</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/07/iphod_is_go/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Magic quantum opti-chip can be made in normal fab, too&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Optical stuff is great, as everyone knows: optical links mean huge bandwidth right now, and computers running on photons rather than electrons might be truly amazing thin..." target="_self">New \'iPhoD\' can \'adjust the speed of light by turning a knob\'</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:35:51 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Magic quantum opti-chip can be made in normal fab, too Optical stuff is great, as everyone knows: optical links mean huge bandwidth right now, and computers running on photons rather than electrons might be truly amazing things - tremendously powerful, very economical of energy, and potentially able to exploit quantum effects to achieve all manner of mindbending feats.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/07/oracle_netra_x64_servers/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Xeon blade and rack boxes for telcos and hosters&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;It is not a coincidence that Oracle is paying close attention to the Netra server lineup since taking over Sun Microsystems back in January. Telecommunications companies and se..." target="_self">Oracle rings up new Netra servers</a><br />');
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document.write('Xeon blade and rack boxes for telcos and hosters It is not a coincidence that Oracle is paying close attention to the Netra server lineup since taking over Sun Microsystems back in January. Telecommunications companies and service providers of various sorts still have lots Sparc/Solaris iron installed, and it is here where Oracle must build a defensive perimeter and hold the line with its Netra products.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/07/cloud_hpc_webcast/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Ready for prime time?&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Webcast&lt;/strong&gt; Our pals at the &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/&quot;&gt;HPC Advisory Council&lt;/a&gt; have been busy in the past few m..." target="_self">HPC Advisory Council unveils Cloud HPC initiative</a><br />');
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document.write('Ready for prime time? Webcast Our pals at the HPC Advisory Council have been busy in the past few months and it seemed time to tap them for an update, in our September HPC Community webcast.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/07/sysadmin_doomsday_part_2/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Doomsday Weekend 2: Trevor Pott and the Domain of Fire&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sysadmin Blog&lt;/strong&gt; On Doomsday Weekend we completely replaced our Windows domain. It was a miserable experience. It?s hard to describe how much wo..." target="_self">A series of disorderly events</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:47:34 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Doomsday Weekend 2: Trevor Pott and the Domain of Fire Sysadmin Blog On Doomsday Weekend we completely replaced our Windows domain. It was a miserable experience. It?s hard to describe how much work is involved in replacing a mature domain; certainly more than I had anticipated. It\'s even harder to explain the hell to non-sysadmins.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/07/brocade_converged_it/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Supplier diversity could suffer&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;More than three-quarters of businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are looking to consolidate their existing IT infrastructure in the next 12 months, according to Brocade-commi..." target="_self">European CIOs get consolidation</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:31:02 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Supplier diversity could suffer More than three-quarters of businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are looking to consolidate their existing IT infrastructure in the next 12 months, according to Brocade-commissioned research.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/07/druva_insynch/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Outlook and Office-aware&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Three-year-old start-up &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&amp;quot;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.druva.com/&quot;&gt;Druva&lt;/a&gt; is opening an office in the UK and delivering global deduplicating backup so..." target="_self">Druva delivers deduping laptop backup</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:18:34 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Outlook and Office-aware Three-year-old start-up Druva is opening an office in the UK and delivering global deduplicating backup software for laptops. It\'s Outlook and Office-aware to reduce network transmission loads, and it provides user self-service restores, which Druva says Avamar cannot.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/07/idc_storage_sw_q2_2010/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Shaky second quarter&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;The gap between EMC and Symantec storage software revenues is widening, according to IDC\'s worldwide quarterly Storage Software Tracker.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">Symantec stumbles, drops further behind EMC</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:11:56 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Shaky second quarter The gap between EMC and Symantec storage software revenues is widening, according to IDC\'s worldwide quarterly Storage Software Tracker.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/07/intel_cougar/" title="&lt;h4&gt;The cougar gets it&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100906PB201.html&quot;&gt;DigiTimes&lt;/a&gt; thinks Intel could add a USB 3.0 host controller to its Cougar motherboard reference..." target="_self">Intel and USB 3.0</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:26:30 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('The cougar gets it DigiTimes thinks Intel could add a USB 3.0 host controller to its Cougar motherboard reference design.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/06/globalfoundries/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Future chips: extreme, ultraviolet &amp;amp; metal&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;GTC 2010&lt;/strong&gt; According to AMD-spinoff GlobalFoundries, chip-baking is about to hit a wall ? but they\'re ready for it. They also claim that their way..." target="_self">GlobalFoundries says Intel process squeezes chip devs</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:00:02 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Future chips: extreme, ultraviolet &amp; metal GTC 2010 According to AMD-spinoff GlobalFoundries, chip-baking is about to hit a wall ? but they\'re ready for it. They also claim that their way of handling the latest advance in chip materials is superior to that used by Intel and soon to be introduced by their ginormous competitor, TSMC.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/06/sysadmin_doomsday_part_1/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Part one of Doomsday Weekend: who can you trust?&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sysadmin blog&lt;/strong&gt; As sysadmins, we have to test before we deploy. We need to test before even upgrading a driver. We should test absolutely everything ..." target="_self">Two and a half days in hell</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:10:09 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Part one of Doomsday Weekend: who can you trust? Sysadmin blog As sysadmins, we have to test before we deploy. We need to test before even upgrading a driver. We should test absolutely everything before a major deployment. It seems obvious. It is obvious.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/06/lab_hpc_goes_mainstream/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Marrying IT to HPC&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Workshop&lt;/strong&gt; Many people tend to associate High Performance Computing (HPC) with exotic supercomputers with esoteric CPUs, high-end networking and storage fabrics, and custom applic..." target="_self">HPC goes mainstream</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:02:00 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Marrying IT to HPC Workshop Many people tend to associate High Performance Computing (HPC) with exotic supercomputers with esoteric CPUs, high-end networking and storage fabrics, and custom applications simulating nuclear explosions, virtually crash-testing cars or designing the aerodynamics of the latest jetliner.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/06/gusture_remote/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Gesticulating at the telly will actually make things happen!&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Movea, the company behind the Gyration Air Mouse, is pushing into television with a module for adding gesture control to the humble zapper.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">Air mouse targets TV - Apple to follow?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:44:14 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Gesticulating at the telly will actually make things happen! Movea, the company behind the Gyration Air Mouse, is pushing into television with a module for adding gesture control to the humble zapper.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/06/virtual_security/" title="&lt;h4&gt;The jury\'s still out&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VMworld&lt;/strong&gt; VMware is taking some big steps in the security and network management arena with its vShield product set. I sat in on a deepish dive into the somewhat new security p..." target="_self">Virtual security: Even better than the real thing?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:24:16 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('The jury\'s still out VMworld VMware is taking some big steps in the security and network management arena with its vShield product set. I sat in on a deepish dive into the somewhat new security products being offered by VMware to deliver on the ?secure? part of their ?Secure Hybrid Cloud? initiative.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/06/hitachi_gst_ipo/" title="&lt;h4&gt;\'Ere... wanna buy a high-ranking disk drive operation?&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opinion&lt;/strong&gt; Hitachi is reported to be considering an IPO or sale of &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010..." target="_self">Hitachi GST: Sale or IPO?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:18:50 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('\'Ere... wanna buy a high-ranking disk drive operation? Opinion Hitachi is reported to be considering an IPO or sale of Hitachi GST, its disk drive operation, ranked third in the industry behind Seagate and Western Digital. How much is it worth? Who would want to buy it??');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/06/hurd_oracle_rumour/" title="&lt;h4&gt;And he\'s back in the room&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Mark Hurd, pushed from the top job at HP after allegations of sexual harassment and misfiling of expenses, is about to get a board post at Oracle.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">HP\'s Hurd set to join Oracle</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:43:13 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('And he\'s back in the room Mark Hurd, pushed from the top job at HP after allegations of sexual harassment and misfiling of expenses, is about to get a board post at Oracle.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/03/reghardware_reviews_digest/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Can you handle the truth?&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;In the past seven days, &lt;em&gt;Reg Hardware&lt;/em&gt; reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics and mobile communications.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">All the week\'s <i>Reg Hardware</i> reviews</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:57:19 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Can you handle the truth? In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics and mobile communications.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/03/seagate_hamr_blow/" title="&lt;h4&gt;The opposite of NIL desperandum&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Seagate may be facing the abandonment of a favoured future technology as the price for hard disk drive (HDD) industry unity.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">Is a HAMR blow falling on Seagate?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:29:41 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('The opposite of NIL desperandum Seagate may be facing the abandonment of a favoured future technology as the price for hard disk drive (HDD) industry unity.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/03/desktop_study/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Evolution and management of the client computing environment&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Let\'s face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">Desktop pleasure, desktop pain</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:47:12 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Evolution and management of the client computing environment Let\'s face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/03/idc_q2_2010_disk_tracker/" title="&lt;h4&gt;IBM looking peaky&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;IDC\'s latest quarterly disk storage tracker shows EMC and HP competing for the market lead, with EMC growing faster than HP. NetApp is growing faster still but has a lot of ground to make up.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">HP and EMC vie for disk storage lead</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:32:29 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('IBM looking peaky IDC\'s latest quarterly disk storage tracker shows EMC and HP competing for the market lead, with EMC growing faster than HP. NetApp is growing faster still but has a lot of ground to make up.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.com/2010/09/03/samsung_qx_notebooks/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Apple flavoured?&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;More laptops have been announced at the IFA show by &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.samsung.co.uk/&quot;&gt;Samsung&lt;/a&gt;. This time it\'s the &quot;premium&quot; QX series - given a..." target="_self">Samsung shows \'airfoil\' luxury laptops</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:58:26 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Apple flavoured? More laptops have been announced at the IFA show by Samsung. This time it\'s the \"premium\" QX series - given a \"airfoil design exterior\" that\'s aluminium clad like as certain fruit-branded manufacturer\'s notebooks.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/03/tosh_laptop_recall/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Worldwide recall of ball burners&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Toshiba and US and Canadian consumer watchdogs are recalling three laptop models after receiving reports that people have been burned by the AC adapters.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">Toshiba warns of fiery laptops</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:05:07 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Worldwide recall of ball burners Toshiba and US and Canadian consumer watchdogs are recalling three laptop models after receiving reports that people have been burned by the AC adapters.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/gartner_sia_chips/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Mobile chips warming up as PC chips chill&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;While chip makers are not white-knuckled with fear as they were during the economic meltdown of late 2008 and early 2009, they were hoping that the recent boom in chip sales would hol..." target="_self">Semi biz starts to cool off</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:11:09 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Mobile chips warming up as PC chips chill While chip makers are not white-knuckled with fear as they were during the economic meltdown of late 2008 and early 2009, they were hoping that the recent boom in chip sales would hold for a couple of quarters ? and it probably won\'t.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/microsoft_explains_vmware_attack/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Taunts estranged son&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VMworld&lt;/strong&gt; Microsoft\'s assault on VMware knows no bounds.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">Microsoft slings mud in VMware living room</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:11:51 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Taunts estranged son VMworld Microsoft\'s assault on VMware knows no bounds.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.com/2010/09/02/lacie_moskeyto/" title="&lt;h4&gt;MosKeyto flies in&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Ordinary USB Flash drives too darn big for you? LaCie\'s new MosKeyto protrudes a mere 6mm from the USB port it\'s connected to.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">LaCie catches ultra-small USB Flash drive bug</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:06:29 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('MosKeyto flies in Ordinary USB Flash drives too darn big for you? LaCie\'s new MosKeyto protrudes a mere 6mm from the USB port it\'s connected to.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/hytrust_cloudy_auditing/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Safe SOX for your virtual box&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VMworld&lt;/strong&gt; Virtual security appliance maker HyTrust is revving up its wares with a new 2.1 release and positioning itself as the go-to partner for auditing and complianc..." target="_self">HyTrust takes auditing, monitoring to the clouds</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:54:31 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Safe SOX for your virtual box VMworld Virtual security appliance maker HyTrust is revving up its wares with a new 2.1 release and positioning itself as the go-to partner for auditing and compliance for VMware\'s new vCloud Director.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/dell_defeated_3par/" title="&lt;h4&gt;HP pumps fist&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Dell has admitted defeat in its attempt to buy 3PAR.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">Dell throws in 3PAR towel</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:35:12 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('HP pumps fist Dell has admitted defeat in its attempt to buy 3PAR.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/hp_raises_again/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Dell\'s new offer given drubbing&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;HP has raised its bid for 3PAR to $33 a share, around $2.4bn, beating a revised Dell offer made earlier today.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">HP bids $2.4bn for 3PAR</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:48:33 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Dell\'s new offer given drubbing HP has raised its bid for 3PAR to $33 a share, around $2.4bn, beating a revised Dell offer made earlier today.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/sysadmin_exchange_server_2010/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Exchange Server 2010 heals 2007 release trauma&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sysadmin blog&lt;/strong&gt; Recently I had the opportunity to walk through complete installs of Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010. Although I have used..." target="_self">My Exchange conversion</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:45:38 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Exchange Server 2010 heals 2007 release trauma Sysadmin blog Recently I had the opportunity to walk through complete installs of Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010. Although I have used Exchange Server 2007 for the past two years, as with Vista, I prefer to pretend it never happened.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/3par_3_days/" title="&lt;h4&gt;HP, Dell, everyone schtum on 3PAR bids&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opinion&lt;/strong&gt; 3Par has not issued a statement recommending HP\'s $2bn bid for the company, despite the ending of a three-day period for Dell to mount a counter-off..." target="_self">If HP gets 3PAR, does Donatelli get HP?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:06:52 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('HP, Dell, everyone schtum on 3PAR bids Opinion 3Par has not issued a statement recommending HP\'s $2bn bid for the company, despite the ending of a three-day period for Dell to mount a counter-offer.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/aircraft_fatigue/" title="&lt;h4&gt;HPC eases the strain&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Here?s another ?How HPC saves your worthless hide? type of story - our pals at InsideHPC publicized a &lt;a href=&quot;http://insidehpc.com/2010/08/25/faa-uses-hpc-to-make-sure-planes-stay-in-the-air/&quo..." target="_self">How much aircraft fatigue is too much?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:01:04 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('HPC eases the strain Here?s another ?How HPC saves your worthless hide? type of story - our pals at InsideHPC publicized a collaboration between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) that should increase air safety for people riding on planes and for the people standing around underneath them.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/consultancy_survey/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Feel the need for it though&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Large companies across the UK increasingly turn to independent consultants when they want advice on the design and specification of a data centre. Almost all of them then ignore some or all of that..." target="_self">Large companies ignore data centre advice - survey</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:01:02 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Feel the need for it though Large companies across the UK increasingly turn to independent consultants when they want advice on the design and specification of a data centre. Almost all of them then ignore some or all of that advice, according to research released today.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/02/mokafive_bare_metal_hype/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Somewhere between VMware and Citrix&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Disappointed with the ridiculously skinny PC coverage offered by the XenClient bare-metal hypervisor &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/citrix_xenclient_xenvault/&quot..." target="_self">MokaFive outs bare-metal PC hypervisor</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:00:02 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Somewhere between VMware and Citrix Disappointed with the ridiculously skinny PC coverage offered by the XenClient bare-metal hypervisor just announced by Citrix Systems? Annoyed that VMware took its Client Virtualization Platform, also a so-called type 1 hypervisor for PCs, out behind the barn and gave it the Old Yeller? Then MokaFive is cooking up something you might find useful.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/cray_sgi_super_deals/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Tickle me, Elmo&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Supercomputer makers Cray and Silicon Graphics have done years of engineering to get their respective XE6 and Altix UV 1000 massively parallel supercomputers to market. And now, despite research funding woes a..." target="_self">Cray and SGI push upgrades to latest supers</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:55:01 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Tickle me, Elmo Supercomputer makers Cray and Silicon Graphics have done years of engineering to get their respective XE6 and Altix UV 1000 massively parallel supercomputers to market. And now, despite research funding woes among governments, research institutions, and corporations, the two companies face the challenging task of convincing customers of their prior machines to upgrade to the new iron.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/vmware_application_development_platform/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Eyes Ruby, PHP, .NET&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VMworld&lt;/strong&gt; VMware says that its &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/31/vmware_vcloud_director_unveiled/&quot;&gt;Cloud Application Platform&lt;/a&gt; ? a means ..." target="_self">VMware app dev platform gazes beyond SpringSource Java</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:46:57 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Eyes Ruby, PHP, .NET VMworld VMware says that its Cloud Application Platform ? a means of building and deploying applications that has grown up around the SpringSource Java framework ? will eventually embrace other programming languages, including Ruby-on-Rails, PHP, and perhaps .NET.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/tosh_24nm/" title="&lt;h4&gt;24nm? It\'s what you do with it that counts, etc&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Toshiba has started mass-producing NAND flash ships using a 24nm process, and is offering the world\'s smallest 8GB flash chips.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">Tosh has tiniest flash bits</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:26:53 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('24nm? It\'s what you do with it that counts, etc Toshiba has started mass-producing NAND flash ships using a 24nm process, and is offering the world\'s smallest 8GB flash chips.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/swype_symbian/" title="&lt;h4&gt;World-beating text entry comes to Nokia&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;The world\'s fastest text entry system, Swype, is now in Beta for Symbian S60 5th edition, allowing Nokia users to write by tracing a path rather than the old-fashioned tapping on keys...." target="_self">Symbian users Swype Samsung\'s tricks</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:01:43 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('World-beating text entry comes to Nokia The world\'s fastest text entry system, Swype, is now in Beta for Symbian S60 5th edition, allowing Nokia users to write by tracing a path rather than the old-fashioned tapping on keys.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/jedi_mind_renamed/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Lucasfilm swoop crushes opposition&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Jedi Mind Inc has conceded that someone else might just own the term Jedi, and has changed its name to Mind Technologies Inc.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">Geek tech firm loses Jedi credentials</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:36:33 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Lucasfilm swoop crushes opposition Jedi Mind Inc has conceded that someone else might just own the term Jedi, and has changed its name to Mind Technologies Inc.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/gartner_2010_pc_forecast/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Treat yourself to a new PC before Halloween&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;It is looking like Friday, October 22, is going to be a fabulous day to buy a new desktop, notebook, or netbook. That\'s a week before Hewlett-Packard finishes its fourth quarter of..." target="_self">Gartner chops PC shipment forecasts for 2010</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:34:50 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Treat yourself to a new PC before Halloween It is looking like Friday, October 22, is going to be a fabulous day to buy a new desktop, notebook, or netbook. That\'s a week before Hewlett-Packard finishes its fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 and also a week before PC rival Dell completes its third quarter of its fiscal 2011.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/sysadmin_crackberry_security/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Smartphones can be secure&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sysadmin blog&lt;/strong&gt; Most of the articles about the security of Research In Motion?s Blackberries have focused on governments that want a peek behind RIM?s encryption, but other..." target="_self">Lock up your Crackberries</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:09:22 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Smartphones can be secure Sysadmin blog Most of the articles about the security of Research In Motion?s Blackberries have focused on governments that want a peek behind RIM?s encryption, but other elements of the Blackberry make it well-designed for a business environment.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/bluelock_cloud/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Admitting the imbalance is a good start&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VMworld&lt;/strong&gt; One of our first meetings at VMworld was with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bluelock.com/&quot;&gt;BlueLock&lt;/a&gt;, who have the distinction of bei..." target="_self">BlueLock: Risky cloud business</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:13:18 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Admitting the imbalance is a good start VMworld One of our first meetings at VMworld was with BlueLock, who have the distinction of being one of a small handful of cloud service providers participating in VMware?s big vCloud Datacenter initiative. We spent a bit of time grilling Pat O?Day, BlueLock CTO, in their booth and learned some new things about the cloud value proposition.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/jobs_cast/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Cupertino\'s chilling plan to sideline journos, bloggers&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Apple\'s live streaming of its latest revolutionary product launch today is a dry run for the Mac maker\'s massive server farm which will eventually allow Steve Jobs to..." target="_self">Apple livestreaming heralds Jobs-to-fanboi brain-linking</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:45:32 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Cupertino\'s chilling plan to sideline journos, bloggers Apple\'s live streaming of its latest revolutionary product launch today is a dry run for the Mac maker\'s massive server farm which will eventually allow Steve Jobs to bypass mainstream media and download news directly to fanbois\' brains.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/3par_platinum/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Says 3PAR CEO&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Conversations with various people suggest that 3PAR is keen to rebut any suggestion it has been shopping itself.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">Every cloud has a platinum lining</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:41:36 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Says 3PAR CEO Conversations with various people suggest that 3PAR is keen to rebut any suggestion it has been shopping itself.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.reghardware.com/2010/09/01/samsung_nf_sf_netbooks_notebooks/" title="&lt;h4&gt;New netbooks and notebooks in-bound&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Samsung has introduced the NF netbook family it plans to bring to market here in October. The new machines sports Intel\'s new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reghardware.com/2010/08/23/intel_a..." target="_self">Samsung shows curvy computers</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:42:58 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('New netbooks and notebooks in-bound Samsung has introduced the NF netbook family it plans to bring to market here in October. The new machines sports Intel\'s new dual-core Atom N550 chip.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/vmworld_press/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Press pass kerfuffle makes for excellent start&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blog&lt;/strong&gt; GCG staff were summarily kicked out of the VMworld press and analyst area this morning. Our crime? Trying to have a short meeting with an indust..." target="_self">VMworld: Oi, no sneaky meetings!</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:10:14 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Press pass kerfuffle makes for excellent start Blog GCG staff were summarily kicked out of the VMworld press and analyst area this morning. Our crime? Trying to have a short meeting with an industry contact while sitting inside the cordoned-off analyst/press corral. Last year, and in years past, we routinely took briefings in this area with no trouble.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/lhc_data/" title="&lt;h4&gt;If you can\'t destroy the world, drown it in data&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blogs&lt;/strong&gt; The Large Hadron Collider has been operating for a few months now, and it hasn?t ripped apart the space/time continuum ? not where I live, a..." target="_self">The Large Hadron Collider\'s mega-pic churn</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:02:02 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('If you can\'t destroy the world, drown it in data Blogs The Large Hadron Collider has been operating for a few months now, and it hasn?t ripped apart the space/time continuum ? not where I live, anyway, and that?s mostly all I care about. Of course, it could be that it?s still early, and that the cumulative effects of accelerating particles really fast could still spell the end of everything. Until that happens, the LHC is generating enough data to keep scientists busy from now until doomsday (unless doomsday is in the next couple of years).?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/siox_not_graphite_memory_chip/" title="&lt;h4&gt;\'They said I was mad! But they\'ll all be &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; sorry\'&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Stateside chip boffins say they have developed a radical new method of building memory, which will smash through the &quot;brick wall&quot; that Moore..." target="_self">New super-Flash chips to run on SiO<sub><small>x</small></sub>, not graphite</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:55:53 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('\'They said I was mad! But they\'ll all be very sorry\' Stateside chip boffins say they have developed a radical new method of building memory, which will smash through the \"brick wall\" that Moore\'s Law is about to run into.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/hp_hynix/" title="&lt;h4&gt;3-year joint development&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;HP is partnering with Hynix to bring Memristor technology from lab to fab.?&lt;/p&gt;..." target="_self">HP &amp; Hynix join forces for memristor fab</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:01:49 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('3-year joint development HP is partnering with Hynix to bring Memristor technology from lab to fab.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/01/sgi_q4_f2010_numbers/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Vows 2011 break-even&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Supercomputer and hyperscale server maker Silicon Graphics is still losing money, but it\'s hopeful that the years ahead will actually yield some profits. And thus, as the company announced its fiscal 201..." target="_self">SGI bleeds less than expected</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:14:57 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Vows 2011 break-even Supercomputer and hyperscale server maker Silicon Graphics is still losing money, but it\'s hopeful that the years ahead will actually yield some profits. And thus, as the company announced its fiscal 2010 financial results today, SGI\'s board of directors reanimated a latent $40m stock buyback program that the merger between Rackable Systems and Silicon Graphics put on hold.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/31/xsigo_io_director_ethernet/" title="&lt;h4&gt;Adapter cards given the boot, too&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Xsigo Systems, one of the pioneers of virtual I/O for server networks and their links to storage, is beside itself with excitement at the VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza in San ..." target="_self">Xsigo rejiggers virtual I/O director for Ethernet</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:59:08 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Adapter cards given the boot, too Xsigo Systems, one of the pioneers of virtual I/O for server networks and their links to storage, is beside itself with excitement at the VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza in San Francisco now that it has finally brought a product to market that is designed for enthusiastic uptake by IT shops that like their Ethernet and don\'t want to buy special adapter cards from anyone to virtualize their I/O.?');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/31/ibm_system_x3755_m3/" title="&lt;h4&gt;One System x rack only, no blades&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;It only took five months, but on Tuesday it finally happened: IBM announced its first ? and what could very well end up being its only ? System x or BladeCenter server fitted with AMD\'s &quo..." target="_self">Big Blue finally punts an Opteron 6100 server</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:22:56 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('One System x rack only, no blades It only took five months, but on Tuesday it finally happened: IBM announced its first ? and what could very well end up being its only ? System x or BladeCenter server fitted with AMD\'s \"Magny-Cours\" Opteron 6100 processors.?');
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