Cloud

Cisco Upgrades UCS Blades With Xeon 7500

Cisco is building Intel's Xeon 7500 chips into its servers in a major revamp of UCS, the converged data centre…

15 years ago

Green Grid Pushes PUE As Global Data Efficiency Metric

Industry group Green Grid is pushing for an international agreement on data centre standards

15 years ago

Microsoft Discontinues Intel Itanium Support

Microsoft plans to end support for Intel's Itanium processors, citing the high-end scalability and reliability of new x86 chips from…

15 years ago

Intel’s Barrett Defends Fiorina In US Senate Race

Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett says ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina, now running for the U.S. Senate, is being unfairly criticised…

15 years ago

MySQL Boss Heads To Cloud Software Maker

Marten Mickos was a key figure in guiding the open source MySQL database into worldwide significance

15 years ago

Microsoft Submits Linux Driver Updates

Microsoft has updated the the Hyper-V Linux Integration Services that it contributed to the Linux community in 2009

15 years ago

AMD Gains Modest Market Share Growth At Intel Expense

AMD has managed to grow its market share by a modest 1.6 percentage point, but Intel remains the undisputed chip…

15 years ago

Watchdog Chief Blasts Government’s IT Spending Record

The departing chairman of a parliamentary watchdog has heavily criticised the Government's record of IT spending in an open letter

15 years ago

BT Clears Flooded Telephone Exchange

BT is still working to restore services at its telephone exchange in Paddington, after a flood caused major disruption to…

15 years ago

IBM: Why Xeon Servers Aren’t A Me-Too Game

Intel Xeon servers promised to replace specialised RISC processors with bog-standard systems. So why is IBM consultant Tikiri Wanduragala telling…

15 years ago

Businesses Need Mobile Device Management

Mobile operators are struggling to to cope with oversubscribed spectrums, forcing enterprises to resort to mobile management services, says Andrew…

15 years ago

Tech Hiring Slow But Demand For Key Skills Persists

Not much hiring is expected in the second quarter, but certain skills are in demand

15 years ago

New Xeon 7500 Treads On Itanium’s Toes

Intel says its Xeon 7500 gives its biggest performance jump yet. Others wonder if it spells the end for Itanium,…

15 years ago

Telehouse Opens Flagship Green Data Centre In London

Today saw the official opening of Telehouse West: a new data centre in East London which provides heat to the…

15 years ago

Flood At BT Exchange Plays Havoc With Phone Lines

BT has been forced to close its North Paddington telephone exchange after it was damaged by a flood, causing widespread…

15 years ago

BT To Bring Super-Fast Broadband To South-West

Nearly 200,000 homes in the in the South-West could get access to BT's "high ca-pasty" broadband

15 years ago

Green IT Certification To Help Companies Tackle Emissions

CompTIA has launched a new green IT certification, adding to the range of green IT qualifications available to IT managers

15 years ago

CERN Breaks Record Despite Glitches

CERN scientists are calling the successful collision of proton particle beams at 7 TeV in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)…

15 years ago

Dell Expands Printer Portfolio

Dell has released eight new printer models, as the PC maker looks to take the fight to the likes of…

15 years ago

CIOs Tag Legacy Apps As Most Painful

Legacy applications cause the biggest headache for corporate IT management, despite them being a minor part of the overall product…

15 years ago

Former IBM CEO-Contender Guilty Of Securities Fraud

Robert Moffat, a 31-year IBM veteran and at one time considered a possible IBM CEO candidate, pleads guilty to his…

15 years ago

GE Experimenting With Smart Grids

A pilot programme employing WiMax 4G communications and GE smart meters has been demonstrated in Michigan

15 years ago

Aruba Puts Branch Office Networks In The Cloud

No more network boxes in the branch office, says Aruba

15 years ago

HP Strike Action Called Off By Union

HP workers have suspended their two-day strike action as talks continue over pay freezes and redundancies

15 years ago

AMD Launches 12-Core ‘Magny-Cours’ Opteron Chip

AMD is rolling out its 12-core Opteron chip a day before Intel unveils its eight-core “Nehalem EX” Xeon processors for…

15 years ago

Ireland Gets Much-Needed IBM Smart City Investment

The Emerald Isle could receive an economic boost from a new IBM facility focused on smarter infrastructure

15 years ago

Transfer Your IT Problems To The Cloud

Virtual infrastructure is set to move workloads to the most cost-effective platform but, while applications exceed the ability of cloud…

15 years ago

Ex-Brocade CEO Convicted Of Stock Option Backdating

Ex-CEO of Brocade Communications was found guilty by a federal jury on 26 March of intentionally backdating stock options

15 years ago

Google Ultra-fast Broadband Offer Proves Popular

Google's offer to test 1G-bps broadband access in U.S. communities drew responses from more than 1,100 communities and 194,000 individuals

15 years ago

Data Breach Remains Top Security Worry

The ever-present threat of data breaches is keeping business executives awake at night, according to a new survey from IBM

15 years ago