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 Topic: HardwareThe new items published under this topic are as follows.
Seagate to enter booming market for small hard drives
Posted by: Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 - 08:45 AM
Hardware
| SAN JOSE, California (AP) - Eyeing consumers' voracious appetite for digital media storage, Seagate Technology LLC will soon have a slew of new products to capitalize on the booming demand for mini hard drives. Seagate, a leading hard-disk maker for computers, plans to unveil Monday its first line of 1-inch (2.5-centimeter) disk drives in capacities of 2.5 gigabytes and 5 gigabytes. The firm is incorporated in the Cayman Islands but has headquarters in Scotts Valley, California.
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Sun to offer `pay per use'
Posted by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 02, 2004 - 06:54 AM
Hardware
| Sun Microsystems is expected to announce today that it will begin offering a subscription service for its computer hardware and software.Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer at the Santa Clara company, plans to announce Sun's network services at a speech before Sun partners and customers in Shanghai. Under the plan, Sun customers can choose to pay an annual subscription fee for Sun's computer servers, software and services.
"It's a new business model approach that lets customers pay per use," said Larry Singer, Sun's senior vice president of global market strategies. "Right now recurring revenue is 20 percent of our business. Over time, we'd like it to become 80 percent."
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Intel unveils 10GbE network adaptor
Posted by: trraju on Friday, May 07, 2004 - 01:38 PM
Hardware
| Intel claims to have broken the cost and technical barriers that have been holding back 10Gbps Ethernet (10GbE) deployments in the data centre with its introduction of a 10GbE network interface card for servers.According to the chip giant, its Intel PRO/10GbE SR Server Adapter is the first device of its kind priced at less than $5,000 (£2,785) and operating on standard multimode fibre.
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Developer kit for mobiles
Posted by: trraju on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 09:55 AM
Hardware
| Mobile tools firm Momote last week announced its Momote MX platform, which lets companies build applications that will run on virtually any mobile device. Using its system, application development times can be reduced to just six weeks, according to Momote. Momote MX, available immediately, consists of developer tools, a server component and a client-side runtime module, the Momote MX Engine. Applications are coded completely in XML and interpreted by the MX engine for whichever mobile platform they are running on.
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Oracle/Dell Cut Low-end Server Costs
Posted by: trraju on Thursday, April 08, 2004 - 08:46 AM
Hardware
| Oracle has cut the price of its low-end database software running on two-processor servers from Dell, in a move that analysts say heralds the start of firms moving large databases from Unix to Linux.
The companies are offering a cut-price deal for low-end Dell servers running on Linux and bundled with Oracle's Database Standard Edition One.
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Hardware does matter
Posted by: bpburnwal on Saturday, March 13, 2004 - 03:18 PM
Hardware
| Simpson Strong-Tie , a manufacturer of metal fasteners for the construction industry, believes its competitive edge comes from its policy of building all its own applications. The company, which doubled in size over the past seven years, also rejects the notion that its custom applications will work just fine on any type of hardware.
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