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Developer fixes 33-year-old Unix bug

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT

Error from 1975 corrected at last.

An OpenBSD developer has discovered and fixed a bug in the software that has been traced back to an AT&T version of Unix from 1975.

MessageLabs secures email backup

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:36:00 GMT

Promises extra safety for remote failover system.

MessageLabs, best known as a provider of email security services, last week introduced a managed email backup service that has as a selling point the same security features built into the company's other products.

Logicalis offers mainframe 'try before you buy' service

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Taking the mystery out of mainframe deployments.

IT systems supplier Logicalis is offering UK enterprises the chance to design and build a bespoke mainframe platform in order to evaluate the economic and environmental potential of deploying a big iron solution.

Qumranet tests distributed desktop virtualisation

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:11:00 GMT

KVM sponsor aims to go multi-site.

Qumranet, the commercial sponsor of the KVM virtualisation software, has begun beta-testing a desktop virtualisation system aimed at geographically distributed organisations.

Microsoft and QLogic claim near-native performance for virtual apps

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:48:00 GMT

But tests show that Hyper-V needs a hardware-accelerated SAN adapter for maximum speed.

Virtualisation-enabled and hardware-assisted 8Gigabit Fibre Channel SAN adapters allow applications to run under Microsoft's Hyper-V at "near-native transaction performance", SAN specialist QLogic has claimed.

Parallels teams up with Quest on virtual desktops

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:31:00 GMT

System uses efficient partitioning approach.

Parallels and Quest Software have teamed up to offer an end-to-end Windows desktop virtualisation system based on Parallels' operating system-level virtualisation technology, Virtuozzo Containers.

Endeavors offers free application streaming

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Another way to simplify software infrastructure.

Endeavors Technologies has taken a step toward commoditising the emerging technology of application streaming with a free, fully functional version of its Application Jukebox product.

Force10 touts supercomputing success

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:13:00 GMT

10Gig switches integral to the numbercrunchers.

10Gig Ethernet specialist Force10 Networks has claimed that its switch/routers are now integral to more than a dozen of the world's top 40 supercomputers. They include the US Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner, which currently ranks as the world's most powerful supercomputer and was the first to reach a peak performance of 1 Petaflop.

Ruby creators warn of serious flaws

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:30:00 GMT

Bugs turn trendy language into deadly weapon.

The Ruby programming language, which has become popular as the basis for web 2.0 sites such as Twitter, contains serious security flaws that could allow attackers to take over an organisation's web server, according to the Ruby development team.