Cloud

Gmail Downtime Hits 5 Million Users

Google's Gmail experienced an hour long outage yesterday, but the service retains a 99 percent uptime rating

13 years ago

Windows Server 8 Officially Tagged As Windows Server 2012

Microsoft has officially named the next version of Windows server - now to be known as Windows Server 2012

13 years ago

How Facebook’s Paedophile Blocking Can Backfire

Facebook's blocking system is flawed, but linguistic and behavioural software can fix it, argues Tom Brewster

13 years ago

Check Point Launches Crowdsourcing Threat Cloud

ThreatCloud looks to get users sharing information for the good of each other

13 years ago

Toshiba Set To Acquire IBM’s POS Business For $850m

Deal would see Toshiba Tec become 'world's foremost retail point-of-sale systems company'

13 years ago

Dell Brings In CloudStack Partners

Canonical, enStratus and Mirantis are to provide products and services around Dell's OpenStack and Hadoop efforts

13 years ago

Microsoft Wants Data Centres To Power Themselves

“Data Plants” of the future could combine data centres and sustainable energy production

13 years ago

BRICS To Cable The Southern Hemisphere

A 34,000 km submarine cable network linking five developing countries? Easy, says Andrew Mthembu of i3Africa

13 years ago

Google Drive 5GB Dropbox Rival To Land Next Week?

Apple Mac, iPhone, Windows and Android versions on the way for Google's Dropbox rival, say sources

13 years ago

The Commoditisation Of Hacktivist Attacks

Off-the shelf software for DDoS attacks has brought the means of disruption to smaller pressure groups, says Eric Doyle

13 years ago

New Submarine Fibre Optic Cable To Link BRICS Countries

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will get superfast connection to each other and the United States

13 years ago

Rackspace Launches OpenStack Cloud Services

Rackspace is initiating a major OpenStack push, building on the project it started in 2010

13 years ago

US Adults Opt Out Of Internet

One in five US adults do not use the Internet, many saying they don't go online because the technology is…

13 years ago

Microsoft UK Gets New Boss

Microsoft has announced a reshuffle with a new managing director in the UK, as the former UK MD moves off…

13 years ago

Home Office IT Director To Lead G-Cloud

Home Office IT director Denise McDonagh is to replace Chris Chant as the G-Cloud leader

13 years ago

Shuttleworth: Cloud Jobs Need Migration Help

Mark Shuttleworth says the industry needs portable workloads. He describes Canonical's solution to TechWeekEurope

13 years ago

Microsoft Provides Education Cloud For 7.5 Million Indians

The biggest cloud deal ever: Microsoft supports 7.5 million-strong Indian education system

13 years ago

IBM and Red Hat Join OpenStack Foundation

The OpenStack Foundation has gained powerful new backers after IBM and Red Hat joined up

13 years ago

Interxion Puts Data Centre Staff In Pods For Olympics

Olympic transport trouble won't keep data centre staff from their jobs in London

13 years ago

Cisco Grows UC And Networking Portfolio For SMBs

Cisco has expanded its portfolio of switches, routers and UC products geared towards the smaller business

13 years ago

BE Broadband Confirms FTTC Fibre Service Delay

BE Broadband has informed its customers that its fibre service plans have been delayed until next year

13 years ago

ICANN Reassures Over Dot-Anything Delay

New domains on hold while ICANN sorts out the registration system

13 years ago

G-Cloud Boss Slams Unacceptable Government IT

The outgoing director of the G-Cloud framework has delivered a withering assessment of 'unacceptable' IT within government

13 years ago

EMC Announces VSPEX For Quick Fix Cloud Infrastructure

EMC hooks up with partners to offer a data centre package for companies who want to get to the cloud…

13 years ago

Google+ Revamp Aimed At Facebook

Google+ changes are introduced, but some question the 170 million users claim

13 years ago

Intel Announces Atom-Based Centerton for Low-Energy Microservers

Atom-based system-on-chip uses only six watts, making it Intel's greenest processor yet

13 years ago

Amazon Launches ‘Powerful’ CloudSearch

CloudSearch offers a managed search service that can scale well, just like other Amazon services

13 years ago

Intel Predicts Arrival Of 75 New Ultrabook Designs

Intel executives have predicted that 75 new Ultrabook designs from different vendors are about to hit the market

13 years ago

Citrix Extends Social Collaboration With Podio Purchase

Citrix is acquiring Danish company Podio in order to enhance its social collaboration cloud service for SMBs

13 years ago

Oracle Launches New Xeon E5-based Server Lineup

Oracle has unveiled a new lineup of Sun rack and blade systems based on Intel’s new Xeon E5-2600 chips

13 years ago