Cloud

Microsoft Will Make Hadoop Data Available Through Excel

With Excel output, the Big Data crunching platform could become more appealing to smaller companies

13 years ago

Microsoft Windows Server 8 Beta Made Available For Testing

Windows Server 8 beta has been released to IT departments for testing and to gain feedback on refining the final…

13 years ago

Apple Could Be Working On Adaptive Audio Streaming

Promise of higher music quality for desktops, and higher download speeds for mobile devices

13 years ago

Tata Confirms Interest In C&W Bid

The Indian conglomerate Tata has signalled its possible interest in acquiring Cable & Wireless Worldwide

13 years ago

RSA 2012: EMC Offers New Security And Risk Management Services

EMC has launched an advisory service to help organisations deal with governance, risk and compliance

13 years ago

IBM Tackles e-Waste With Chinese Server Facility

IBM has opened its first server refurbishing facility in China in an effort to tackle the growing problem of e-waste

13 years ago

Virgin Media Begins Nationwide Broadband Speed Upgrade

Virgin Media has begun its Double Speeds programme where customers will see their broadband speeds doubled

13 years ago

EIROforum Launches Helix Nebula European Science Cloud

The public-private partnership hopes to solve the greatest scientific challenges of our time

13 years ago

IntraLinks Offers Secure Intra-Company Mobile Collaboration Environment

IntraLinks Connect secures and audits access to files stored in its Cloud for remote access by any device, with the…

13 years ago

Why We Can’t Laugh At Microsoft’s Misery

Through a probably trivial date error, Microsoft's Azure has screwed things up for all the other cloud providers, says Peter…

13 years ago

Windows Azure Leap-Year Glitch Takes Down G-Cloud

Microsoft says that most services have now returned to normal after a day of chaos

13 years ago

Google Pushes Out Its Privacy Policy Changes Despite Regulatory Disdain

Google is going ahead with privacy policy changes today despite pleas from European Union and US officials

13 years ago

Rising Server Maker SeaMicro Acquired By AMD

AMD has bought rising star SeaMicro for its low-power-consumption, small footprint microservers for private or hybrid cloud systems

13 years ago

IBM ‘Rebalances’ By Axing 1,200 Staff

Big Blue has reportedly laid off as many as 1,200 workers, mostly in United States and Canada

13 years ago

Google To Patent Fibre Optic Cable Deployment Method

The “edging strip” could make fibre-to-the-home installation simpler by removing needed to dig trenches in customers' gardens

13 years ago

HP To Axe Half Of The WebOS Workforce

275 webOS workers lose their jobs despite HP's previous assurances they would be redeployed

13 years ago

Report Praises Green Credentials Of eBay’s Arizona Data Centre

Data centre achieves "new levels of energy efficiency", according to a study by the Green Grid

13 years ago

4G LTE Network From UK Broadband Goes Live In London

This morning, in a London borough, a 4G LTE network was switched on, promising speedy mobile broadband

13 years ago

Hotter Data Centres Need To Find Tougher Kit

Hotter data centres waste less energy but we need vendors to support higher temperature tolerance in their hardware, says Peter…

13 years ago

HP Tackles Security Risks With Integrated Platform

HP is to assist businesses struggling to tighten up their security with an integrated platform that spans multiple environments

13 years ago

MWC 2012: Mobile Will Change The World Says Google’s Schmidt

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt challenged attendees to use mobile technology to create a global community of equals

13 years ago

HP Led In Server Shipments In 2011 But IBM Topped Server Revenue

A Gartner study shows IBM topped the server market in revenue for 2011 while HP led the market in server…

13 years ago

MWC 2012: Telefonica To Offer Virtualised Samsung Galaxy S II

Telefonica Digital is to offer a virtualised Samsung smartphone that contains both a corporate and personal identity

13 years ago

RSA 2012: Sophos And Egnyte Secure Mobile Documents

Documents are increasingly being exchanged through the Cloud, encryption is one way to prevent their misuse

13 years ago

IBM Sets 100-Microsecond Quantum Computing Record

With quantum bits that last long enough to do actual work, IBM hopes extremely fast computers are on their way

13 years ago

Yahoo Threatens Patent Lawsuit Against Facebook

Yahoo says Facebook infringed between 10 and 20 of its patents

13 years ago

Cisco To Buy Optical Networker Lightwire For £171m

Cisco takeover is signal of intent as it makes second significant optical IT acquisition in two years

13 years ago

Oracle Exalytics Exits Experimental Stage

Oracle's in-memory Big Data analytics appliance, Exalytics, has now moved out of the testing stage to reach GA status

13 years ago

Dell Launches Hot Servers And Upgrades Networking

Hot-running Xeon E5 servers and Gigabit Ethernet are top news in Dell's "Spring Collection"

13 years ago

MWC 2012: Qualcomm Reveals Snapdragon S4 Pro Chip

Qualcomm is offering a Pro version of its Snapdragon S4 processor to cater for advanced operating systems

13 years ago