A chart SAS to 12 Gb/s…

Les pros pourront augmenter les performances de leurs solutions de stockage avec cette nouvelle carte SAS à 12 Gb/s.

LSI Corporation est la première société à avoir développé et lancé sur le marché la nouvelle interface SAS remplaçant avantageusement la vieillissante interface SCSI. Mais celle-ci reste pour le moment limitée aux normes SATA à 6 Gb/s.

La société californienne ne voulant pas être freinée pour proposer des solutions de stockage à très haut débit pour les entreprises, elle sort une carte supportant un débit de 12 Gb/s basée sur du PCI-Express 3.0 x8, qui permet de traiter plus efficacement le flux de données arrivant sur le bus. Point positif, cette carte reste rétro-compatible avec les anciens modèles de disques en SATA 2 ou 3. De quoi monter un un joli SAN avec 32 HDD à 15.300 tr/mn pour offrir un débit pouvant monter à 3 Go/s en écriture... Oui ma bonne dame ! Des débits que pourra atteindre le SATA 4 ?

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Chart Music 2.0: twice less budget

Map Music sees its budget be cut in half, despite the Minister of Culture to restart the device.

As we told you there is little the launch of the Music Card 2.0, deployed with a more ambitious media plan and the appearance of a physical map that will be sold in supermarkets, MPs just deal a severe blow to the device expensive Frederic Mitterrand, minister of culture. Indeed, Members felt that the Music Card is not effective to boost the supply of legal downloading, and is not legitimate because it does not really support the creation and talent.

So, they voted an amendment to the budget law that cuts to the Music Map 10.9 million budget. It must be said that the budget allocated 25 million euros last year the device is far from being fully utilized due to lack of success for the first version of Music Card (only 50,000 copies sold for a third of the budget used) . A budget that, as a reminder, finance 50% of face value subsidized by the state (the card € 50 to spend on legal download partner costing € 25).

This year's budget had to be 20 million euros to allow the device to take off Music Card. Frédéric Mitterrand will settle for half but can count on the campaign, the new website and physical maps to transform the operation into a success ...

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Towards a democratization of welded chart SIM…

According to the French leader in the SIM chip soldered democratization is inevitable ...

Our colleagues at Business-Mobile, who were DigiWorld Summit of the Idate, were able to attend the lecture given by Gemalto, the French leader of the SIM card. Gemalto announced that under pressure from manufacturers, welded to the SIM card phone is poised to become more democratic. The first discussions on the subject had appeared while we lent to Apple's desire to weld the iPhone's SIM card (in conjunction with the arrival of the iPhone CDMA). A rumor that has been debate, and Apple has finally opted for the micro-SIM ... for now.

For Gemalto is formal, "embedded SIM card, welded to the terminal will become a reality in the short term." Why? "Simply because it is a strong demand from manufacturers that provide terminals for ever. They need more space to incorporate larger batteries. Eventually, even the microSIM be too large because the connectors. The SIM welded around this problem with its finesse and size 5 out of 6 mm. "

Main consequence of this change, remote management of the subscription as operators must rely on information provided to them by manufacturers. Each phone with a unique identifier to be added to the customer base will enable the operator to access the information in this SIM welded. Because the SIM is a small chip that contains both the operator profile, the profile of the subscriber, and can even pick a few "applications" such as NFC. Therefore, once welded to the terminal operators could lose some of their flexibility.

These will need to send the information by the network client and subscription to the terminal. This is not without changing the habits of mobile users, for example when reselling a telephone. It is not enough to remove the SIM card from the terminal to keep its line ... Same abroad, impossible to buy a SIM card "local" and enjoy on their mobile. And when the phone goes down, its impossible to chip in another. A priori, the answer lies in the remote management of its line and its terminals, via online interfaces specifically developed. One possibility as Gemalto, concedes that it will necessarily educate consumers. Also, how soon will he for the change of allocation to a terminal line is taken into account by the operator? With the SIM is instantaneous.

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Preview: MSI X79A-GD65-D8, another X79 chart under the projectors

Just like Asus and Asrock, MSI enables us to offer a glimpse of one of its motherboards based on the x79 chipset. Here is the X79A-GD65-D8 detail ...

In the month of November, Intel officially unveiled its new platform high-end based on socket LGA 2011. Platform that will replace the current aging LGA 1366 platform and its X58 chipset. Sandy Bridge processors-E would follow after the current Gulftown, and a new chipset will appear on x79. The socket 1366 will also be replaced by the 2011 socket, even wider than its predecessor! The motherboard makers then embark again in a war to reveal their future models. And since we have been fortunate to receive the X79A-GD65-8D of the Taiwanese manufacturer MSI, we will offer a small preview.

The X79A-GD65-8D (8D for eight Dimm?), We have been delivered in a small black box barely larger than the motherboard, which you can not miss the logo MILITARY CLASS III. From a marketing perspective this symbol should highlight the top quality and stability of the components used by the manufacturer. It also includes the following features highlighted on the back of the box: DrMOS II, Hi-c CAP, SFC and Solid CAP choke ... MSI does not forget to mention on the box that the motherboard supports PCIe Gen 3 and that his card has the Click II Bios, bios UEFI improvement that could be found on their range of motherboard socket LGA 1155 (P67, H67, Z68).

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