Cloud

BMC To Acquire Virtualisation Mapping Specialist Tideway

BMC is bulking up its business service management capabilities by adding Tideway's Foundation IT discovery software, which helps companies map…

15 years ago

British Users Choose Homes For Broadband Speed

Broadband speed is a key factor in where British people choose to live: four out of ten admit they would…

15 years ago

Star Launches Managed Virtualisation Service

Business ISP Star is offering a service that will allow organisations to offload virtual server management onto its own hosted…

15 years ago

Lord Digby Jones: Postal Strike Will Boost Online Economy

Small businesses won't let postal workers stop them. They will move online, a BT conference heard.

15 years ago

Win 7 Signals End Of XP’s Corporate Reign

XP's domination of business PCs looks likely to end with the arrival of Windows 7,Forrester has predicted, although question marks…

15 years ago

IBM Hardware Boss Arrested For Insider Trading

The man in charge of IBM's $20 billion a year hardware business has been arrested over an insider trading scheme…

15 years ago

Conservative Government Would Scrap Broadband Tax

The Tories claim that the proposed 50p tax will be scrapped while the government is issuing mixed messages about its…

15 years ago

Accenture Acquires Nokia Services Business

Accenture completes its acquisition of the professional services unit of Nokia, a move that will help take Accenture more directly…

15 years ago

Open Source Will Change Enterprises, Says BT Guru

Software licences are a fiction, and open source is ready for use by every consumer, says Jeremy Ruston, BT's head…

15 years ago

IBM Mainframe Monopoly Probe Questioned By Analyst

Is there really such a thing as a mainframe monopoly, and is the Federal probe into IBM's activity just a…

15 years ago

IT Optimistic Over Budgets For 2010

IT managers are expecting a little more money in their budgets for 2010 according to one report, but it seems…

15 years ago

Businesses More Open To Windows 7, Than Vista

Good news for Microsoft as the nightmare reception of Vista by the business sector looks to be over, after a…

15 years ago

Intel And AMD Clash Over Evidence Retention

Feuding chip giants Intel and AMD are once again clashing over Intel's antitrust lawsuit, with both parties claiming the other…

15 years ago

Space Agency Says Cloud Will Speed Galaxy Mapping

The European Space Agency says the Gaia galaxy-mapping project will cut its computing costs by 50 percent by using cloud…

15 years ago

TalkTalk Uses Barry Manilow To Attack UK Net Cut-Off Plan

Lord Mandelson's plan to cut off Internet file sharers is under attack from TalkTalk - using the music of Barry…

15 years ago

Few Options Open To Cisco In Tandberg Bid

Now that Tandberg shareholders have rejected Cisco Systems' $3 billion bid, the networking giant has to decide whether to up…

15 years ago

UK Firms Block Facebook Over Legal Fears

Over 50 percent of UK organisations block access to social media sites, because Facebook data could be required in legal…

15 years ago

IT Managers Need To Invest In Efficiency

IT professionals are being judged by efficiency, not results - and they need to understand the best way to get…

15 years ago

Citrix Tempts VMware Users With Migration Program

The gloves are coming off in the virtualisation market after Citrix launched a migration program designed to lure users away…

15 years ago

Open Source Could Save UK Schools £60 Million A Year

A national partnership has been launched today at Bletchley Park, to encourage UK local authorities to look at implementing open…

15 years ago

Finnish Government Makes 1Mbps Broadband Legal Right

But it's just a stepping stone to the eventual aim of mandating 100Mbps broadband by 2015 - compared to the…

15 years ago

HP Discusses Green Data Centre Progress

With data center power and cooling costs becoming a key issue for businesses, vendors such as Hewlett-Packard are using their…

15 years ago

Recession Hasn’t Killed Data Centre Demand

Is the recession cutting demand for data centre space? Not according to analyst Nick Mayes of PAC Consulting.

15 years ago

Google Docs Gets Makeover And Offers Better Sharing

Search engine giant Google has given its Docs suite a makeover, as it seeks to position the productivity suite less…

15 years ago

NaviSite Launches Enterprise-Class Cloud Platform

NaviSite has unveiled an alternative to public cloud offerings such as Amazon's EC2, by launching its own enterprise-class cloud offering,…

15 years ago

Windows 8 Will Be In The Cloud, Whatever Ballmer Says

Microsoft is working on Windows 8 - and it will be heavily based on the cloud, whatever Steve Ballmer may…

15 years ago

Cisco Acquires Wireless Specialist Starent

Cisco is buying wireless infrastructure company Starent for $2.9 billion, the latest significant acquisition this year, following such purchases as…

15 years ago

Dell Says Efficiency Drive Will Shrink IT Industry By £125Bn

Michael Dell aims to cut spending on IT by end user companies by pursuing the concept of the efficient enterprise

15 years ago

Meru Launches Wireless Service Assurance

Network access points can pretend to be laptops, to gather performance data and determine whether faults are in the network…

15 years ago

Barracuda Launches European Backup Offering

Hot on its Purewire acquisition, security vendor Barracuda Networks has launched a cloud backup service for European users

15 years ago