Google debuts Neatx for desktop

mid the fanfare of last week's Chrome OS announcement, Google quietly released an open source NX server, dubbed Neatx, for remote desktop display, writes Computerworld.

NX technology was developed by NoMachine to handle remote X Window connections and make a graphical desktop display usable over the Internet.

By its own admission, Google has been looking at remote desktop technologies for "quite a while" and decided to develop Neatx because existing NX server products are either proprietary or difficult to maintain.

Equilibrium, a software and hosted services company, says its MediaRich processing engine is now providing media management and delivery for Extensis, a division of Celartem, Portfolio Server 9, a digital asset management and media delivery solution, reports Business Wire.

Portfolio Server 9 allows organisations to deploy multi-channel marketing, control their brand, and with the implementation of MediaRich, manage and process rich media, and deliver assets through the Web.

The server utilises a powerful media-processing engine from Equilibrium. MediaRich offers new metadata architecture, resulting in extensive file format support and allowing users to catalogue and thumbnail virtually any file.

AMD has introduced its HE and SE six-core 'Istanbul' Opteron chips but it remains to be seen if Wall Street IT organisations will flock to these new processors, states Wall Street & Technology.

The SE is designed for performance-oriented customers, such as Street firms performing high-speed analytics.

According to Gina Longoria, senior product manager of the server workstation division at AMD, only a small subset - 3% to 5% - of AMD customers are interested in the pure raw performance of the Opteron SE, which is 52% more powerful than the previous generation Shanghai while consuming the same amount of power.