Latest Technology News (IT)

Budget Fails To Live Up To IT Expectations

But broadband, green tech and IT-based public sector economies get a look-in.

Brand Voice

The barbarians at your door. How to identify and defeat the cyberthreats facing your business today

Many of the cyberthreats your business faces are invisible. Learn how to shine a light on these threats and discover how to take action to protect your business

Cloud

The Green Side Of Business Process Management

BPM isn't just management consultants tweaking your organisation. It can lead to cost savings and sustainability

Networks

Bonded Broadband Proposed For Britain’s Off-Net 25 Percent

Glueing copper together could heal the digital divide faster than waiting for fibre optic networks

Cloud

Wireless Networks Cut Carbon (And Costs)

Cheaper wireless networks, with wired-like performance, can reduce your carbon footprint - and pay for themselves

Cloud

Thousands of Sun Workers Fear Oracle Will Lay Them Off

Half Sun's 33,000 staff could go when Oracle takes over, according to a newspaper report

Cloud

TeleCity Launches New Efficient Data Centres

A facility in Sweden will use free-air cooling and renewable energy

Cloud

Government Looks to Cut IT Spending by £3.2bn

Improved benchmarking, better information management, and tackling risky IT projects key to cutting costs

Cloud

Hackers Steal US Strike Fighter Data

The most expensive Pentagon weapons system ever developed, the program involves 7.5 million lines of code, of which hackers made off with several terabytes.

Cloud

Samsung Launches Rugged Drive

The hard drive, which comes in various capacities, features a rugged base and design and a shock tolerance of 400 G/2ms

Cloud

AMD Looks To Efficient Chips For Profitability

AMD officials say the recession could play to the strengths of the Opteron EE by giving enterprises the option of extremely efficient systems that can save money on the bottom line

Cloud

Struggling Yahoo To Cut 5 Percent Of Staff

Microsoft and Yahoo have been in discussions over a possible partnership in display and search advertising.

Open Source

Sun Discusses Future Of MySQL

The announcement of MySQL 5.4 comes 24 hours after Oracle announced plans to buy Sun for £5.1bn

Mobility

What Oracle Means For Java

Oracle's experience in Java could make it a better home for the technology than IBM, say insiders in the Java community

Cloud

IBM Profits Drop by One Percent

Middleware and software development are bright spots, despite revenue going down by ten percent overall

Cloud

HP Converges The Data Centre With Matrix

Hewlett-Packard has laucnhed a platform to combine servers, storage and networks into one resource - and called it the Matrix

Cloud

Online Retailers Offered Carbon Offset Service

Ready-made application launched amid concerns about the future of carbon offsetting

Security

The Studios Will Lose Out From Their Pirate Bay Victory

Content owners may be pleased with The Pirate Bay verdict, but they will lose out. Illegal downloads of movies and TV shows open massive marketing opportunities. Piracy is not all bad, says Joe Wilcox

Cloud

Recession Fuels UK ID Theft Fears

Consumer fears over personal identity theft are rising because of the recession, a survey has found

Open Source

Oracle Sun Deal Should Escape Antitrust Issues

If IBM had acquired Sun it could have led to a host of troubling government antitrust issues, but Oracle's $7.4 billion (£5.1bn) deal to acquire Sun is not likely to raise many antitrust concerns

Cloud

Hitachi Steps Up Green IT Efforts

Hitachi chief executive Takashi Kawamura said the vendor will focus on “green mobility,” smart grids and the global expansion of the company's green data centres

Cloud

Apple Least Bad PC Maker In Customer Service Poll

Forrester reports Apple rated highest on customer surveys ranking the usefulness, usability and enjoyableness of their interactions with PC makers

Cloud

Unisys Beefs Up Server Virtualisation

Unisys is ramping up the virtualisation capabilities of its enterprise x86 servers by upgrading to Intel's Nehalem EP processors and VMware's latest version of its virtualisation platform

Cloud

Obama Apppoints US’s First Ever CTO

First U.S. CTO Aneesh Chopra faces a daunting challenge in coordinating and reforming the US federal government's technology systems.

Cloud

VMware’s vSPhere: “Bigger, More Open, More Resilient”

The virtualisation giant is pretty pleased with its new "cloud OS", vSphere. Is it really that different from the competition. VMware's Reza Malekzadeh thinks so - and explained why.

Cloud

VMware Launches “Cloud OS” vSphere

Upgrade to virtual infrastructure product boosts fault-tolerance and expands to smaller businesses, as well as including networks and storage

Cloud

Oracle’s Sun Purchase Raises New Questions

Sun's new prospective owner Oracle explains why the IBM deal went sour. But will Oracle do hardware, and will it kill MySQL? Of course not, says Peter Judge