Cloud

Ballmer: Windows 7 Will Save £100 A Year

The cloud is here - within limits - said CEO Steve Ballmer, in a London visit to promote Windows 7…

15 years ago

Ballmer Admits Windows Licensing “Gotchas”

Some of the Windows licence fine print includes deliberate "gotchas", Microsoft CEO Ballmer admitted - and he has no plans…

15 years ago

IT Industry Will Contribute 5.8m Jobs To Help Recovery

A Microsoft sponsored study says that the IT giant and the companies in its "ecosystem" will generate $535bn (£334bn) in…

15 years ago

Compliance May Hinder Cloud Early Adopters, Warns Provider

Users may have to choose which apps to put in the cloud, and some should wait till their industry accepts…

15 years ago

Savvis Says Spirit Will Convince Cloud Skeptics

With the Spirit  cloud infrastructure project on the launchpad,  Savvis' CTO Bryan Doerr has plenty to say when we ask…

15 years ago

EC Wants e-Commerce To Flow Like “Oil In Broadband Pipelines”

Digital services must be Europe-wide says commissioner Vivian Reding

15 years ago

MEP Continues To Support Intel Amid EC Anti-Trust Case

European legal committee member Brian Crowley has publicly supported an Irish investment by Intel - which was recently fined €1…

15 years ago

ICANN Community Awaits New gTLD Rules

People wanting to start their own "dot-anything" domain, will have to wait for ICANN to rule on potential trademark conflicts

15 years ago

Romanian Phishers Extradited To US

Two men authorities tied to a phishing scheme pleaded not guilty to charges of identity theft and bank fraud after…

15 years ago

British Broadband Needs To Address Quality

Broadband Britain may have concentrated too hard on coverage, while quality will have more impact on society, according to a…

15 years ago

Gartner: Cloud Computing Will Replace IT Departments

But internal tech staff will be kept busy on the roll-out of internal IT private cloud technology for the near…

15 years ago

Cisco To Acquire Video Conference Specialist Tandberg

The networking giant has made an offer of $3bn (£1.9bn) for its Norwegian rival in the market for video calls

15 years ago

Google Wave Store Could Host SAP, Salesforce Apps

Salesforce.com, SAP and several other companies have lined up to show off applications they created using the APIs from the…

15 years ago

US Loosens Hold On ICANN

A new permanent agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration…

15 years ago

Oracle Fined for Ad Claims

Database giant Oracle is fined $10,000 and directed to take corrective action after running an ad in The Wall Street…

15 years ago

Cloud Scare: Bank Closes “Innocent” Gmail User Down

A US bank has had a Gmail user's account closed down, simply because the bank accidentally sent private data to…

15 years ago

MOD Rolls Out Smart Meters Despite Security Concerns

Defence sites across the UK will be fitted with energy efficiency monitoring technology despite security concerns raised by experts about…

15 years ago

From 2010, Legislation, Not Cost, Will Drive Green IT

Environmental laws will replace cost cutting as the main motivation for developing energy efficient data centres, says analyst Gartner

15 years ago

Review: Parallels Desktop 4.0 “Switch To Mac” Edition

Not only does it virtualise Windows, and move all your software and files with the bundled cable and migration tools…

15 years ago

Broadband Policy Makers Need To Balance Quality And Reach

While Broadband Britain is concentrating on penetration, a study shows that quality may be just as important

15 years ago

Enron Broadband Boss Jailed For Wire Fraud

Joseph Hirko, former co-CEO of Enron Broadband Services, gets 16 months in prison and is ordered to pay $7 million…

15 years ago

Xerox Follows Dell and HP With ACS Purchase

Xerox's proposed $6.4 billion (£4bn) purchase of ACS is part of a trend of major tech vendors buying services companies…

15 years ago

Apple Snow Leopard Server Review

Among a number of feature upgrades, content producers will enjoy the ability to serve up podcasts and Wikis more easily…

15 years ago

HM Treasury Signs With Fujitsu For Green IT

The Treasury is buying energy efficient Fujitsu servers, as part of wider moves to make government IT more sustainable

15 years ago

Mainframe Maker Points To Energy Savings

In a recent survey, BMC found that mainframe users believe the systems can play a significant role for them as…

15 years ago

Market For Cloud Computing Databases Growing

Though cloud computing is increasingly becoming part of enterprise IT strategy, it will likely be a while until large-scale, mission-critical…

15 years ago

Business Set To Trial Google Wave

Google's Wave collaboration platform will soon face its first true test when the company rolls it out to 100,000 consumer…

15 years ago

Review: Acronis Backup and Recovery 10

Acronis Backup and Recovery 10 is an inexpensive, robust backup solution, especially for disk to disk backup situations and bare…

15 years ago

Government Open Source Policy Lacks Teeth

The UK government's open source policy is not policed effectively, leaving UK public sector in thrall to greedy proprietary software…

15 years ago

Are Clouds Compliant?

Never mind security and cost. There's one question around cloud computing that could be a show-stopper, says Peter Judge. Do…

15 years ago