Gear6 turbo-charges networked storage: InfoWorld Senior Analyst and Storage Guru Mario Apicella reports on Gear6's forthcoming Cachefx, which "promises to bump up the performance of any storage system by one order of magnitude or more." While the details are a bit hazy, he reports it's an appliance filled to the brim with terabytes of RAM with some management software that capable of selecting which applications or which files need to go faster.
Mobile landing pad for Leopard: Mac enthusiast Tom Yager was quite pleased to wake up to Apple's announcement of a Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro. This 64-bit notebook offers some important advantages of their predecessors, he notes, including being based on Intel's 64-bit Core microarchitecture, performance improvements of up to 39 percent -- and a MagSafe airline power adapter hook to ensure you can keep computing while airborne.
Virtualization meets security: Aplix has unveiled a user-space virtualization technology that dynamically generates virtual execution spaces for native app, writes David Marshall. By creating a virtual execution space for an app, it restricts the application itself from directly accessing the underlying OS, thus providing a secure environment.
Posted by Ted Samson on October 25, 2006 06:00 AM
