Cloud

Ex-Microsoft Space Tourist Returns To Earth

Simonyi is perhaps most famous for spearheading the development of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and other productivity applications

16 years ago

US Power Grid Hacked: Is The Smart Grid Safe?

Foreign spies placed malware on the US electricity grid. Where does this leave government security, and the Green Grid?

16 years ago

Enterprise Networks Can Cut Emissions, Too

From Energy Efficient Ethernet to a company's own supply network, there's a lot that networks can do to reduce a…

16 years ago

Microsoft’s XP Support Still Beats The Competition

From next week, Microsoft Windows XP and Office 2003 support and fixes will cost money. But that is much better…

16 years ago

Thin Client Add-In Card Prolongs PC Life

Booting from an add-in card slims a PC down and gives it a new lease of life, says IGEL

16 years ago

Data Robotics Launches Self-Managing Storage For SMBs

Self-monitoring and self-healing without IT intervention, says vendor

16 years ago

Sun’s Board Mulls Next Steps In IBM Deal

It is possible that a deal still can be reached but it will most likely be at a lower price…

16 years ago

Start-up Takes On Virtualisation Security

The HyTrust Appliance is designed to give IT administrators greater control over their virtual environments and ensure greater security and…

16 years ago

AMD Offers Customer Discounts

AMD officials say the program will help customers weather the recession and also highlights the stability of the Opteron platform

16 years ago

Salesforce.com Launches Free Mobile Service

Launched in London, and runs on iPhone, Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices

16 years ago

CBI Urges UK To Back Smart Meters

But security concerns may force the government to take a slower approach

16 years ago

UK Reveals £650m ID Card Contracts

The government has awarded contracts to CSC and IBM to upgrade biometric passports and other systems that will pave the…

16 years ago

Analysts Claim IBM Still Sun’s Best Option

IBM offers Sun the best chance at a good selling price, and is the best option among HP, Oracle and…

16 years ago

Sun Targets Growing Healthcare Sector

Creating a more efficient and secure way to exchange such medical information will lead to better patient treatment and improved…

16 years ago

Sun, Do You Have A Plan B?

As its deal with IBM evaporates, Sun needs a backup plan. Chris Preimesberger thinks there might be another deal on…

16 years ago

IBM’s Sun Acquisition Breaks Down

Sun Microsystems rejected IBM's $7 billion bid, according to reports - or is it a negotiation tactic?

16 years ago

Double-Take Offers Any-To-Any Server Migration

Fail-over vendor moves to physical and virtual server migration

16 years ago

Red Hat UK MD: Recession Will “Legitimise” Open Source

The recession has been good for open source vendors but not so good that Red Hat 's UK boss wants…

16 years ago

Cambridge University To Offer Cloud-Based HPC

The University of Cambridge is planning a commercial high performance computing cloud, driven partly by a successful move to meter…

16 years ago

Reports Claim IBM Is Close To Sun Buyout

Sun has agreed to accept a lower price in return for stronger commitments from IBM that it will complete the…

16 years ago

Amazon Launches Hadoop Cloud Computing Beta

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a public beta of a service that makes it easier to provision capacity for…

16 years ago

Servers Can Be Both Eco and Logical, Claims Rackable

Is there room in the market for a specialist builder of data-centre servers? Rod Evans, the boss of Rackable Systems'…

16 years ago

More Wi-Fi In Smartphones = A Security Risk

Wi-Fi has become an essential feature of smartphones, and more apps are using it. But they may not be secure,…

16 years ago

Rackable CEO Explains SGI purchase

It's a tiny deal compared to the proposed IBM-Sun Merger, but Rackable will do well with SGI, says Mark Barrenechea

16 years ago

Rackable Plucks SGI From Chapter 11

Rackable's announcement came the same day that SGI filed for bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years

16 years ago

Earth Hour Fails To Slow Internet Usage

Internet usage continued to suck down power with no slowdown before, during and after Earth Hour

16 years ago

Microsoft Launches New Cloud Applications

Microsoft, like Google, Salesforce.com and other major IT entities, have been exploring ways to bring software-as-a-service (SaaS) to an ever-broader…

16 years ago

UK Start-Up Plans Pedal-Powered Green Data Centre

Financial services companies looking to cut IT costs could make use of pedal power

16 years ago

Google Springs AI April Fool

The search giant makes light of rumours about its intentions for artificial intelligence

16 years ago

Google Plans Venture Capital Fund Despite Downturn

Google is setting up Google Ventures, a venture capital fund with the capacity to invest in emerging areas such as…

16 years ago