Breckenridge joins Microsoft family

Breckenridge, a derivative of Windows Home Server Vail that is optimised to function as a storage server, joins Microsoft's Colorado-themed family of servers pending release, states ServerWatch.

As reported on ZDNet, the latest release of the company's storage server product was aimed at business users and not sold directly to customers through retail.

Partners Dell, Fujitsu, HP and NEC sell Microsoft's current Windows Storage Server product. Also noted in the story is that public beta testers have been using Vail, Aurora and SBS 7 since the summer and final versions of the small business and home servers is expected soon.

Biomatters released its newest software package, Geneious Server, to analyse next-generation sequencing data, reports Bio IT Word.

Geneious Server builds on Geneious Pro, but lets users offload large sequence analysis jobs to servers and computing clusters, harnessing institutions' existing computational resources for dramatic speed gains.

“[Your computer] can't handle the 4TB of data that you would get off a sequencing machine,” Candace Toner, Biomatters' CEO, told Bio-IT World. “The computer just can't physically handle that. So let's say you want to compare 50 different genomes, but you're not able to do that on your desktop... the Geneious Server software sits [on a server or cluster], but you're actually connected to the server from your desktop so that you can drive it.”

Statutory agency Centrelink will shortly appoint a panel of service providers to manage its x86 server environment as part of a two-year server consolidation and virtualisation programme, notes Computerworld.

The x86 panel will maintain the agency's server-related hardware, software, support and associated services.

It will also look after servers at Centrelink's data centres and its Australia-wide network, including remote locations.