Datacentre

EMC, Net App Battle for Storage Vendor, Data Domain Hots Up

UPDATED: EMC extends its all-cash offer of $1.8 billion to purchase all outstanding shares of Data Domain to rivel NetApp's…

15 years ago

Customers Get Better Support From Apple Than Dell and HP

Apple customers were more satisfied with the outcome of tech-support calls than HP or Dell customers, according to a study…

15 years ago

Europe’s New Broadband Won’t Be A Telco Monopoly, Warns Reding

Europe needs fast broadband to compete, but the EC will not allow telcos to take advantage and establish monopolies, said…

15 years ago

UK Public Sector Asks for £1 Billion For Radical IT Change

Central Government money could get a quick payback and help meet carbon targets projects by overhauling local IT, says SOCITM

15 years ago

US To Spend £2bn On Smart Grid Technology

The US Department of Energy is ready to spend $3.9 billion (£2.4bn) on efforts to modernise the U.S. electric grid

15 years ago

Microsoft Taking No Chances, Cuts Price Of Windows 7

Microsoft plans price cuts, free upgrades and other incentives to spread Windows 7 to as many users as possible once…

15 years ago

Disaster Recovery The Achilles Heel Of Virtualisation

Many companies are not able to deploy separate backup data centre locations to provide the complete data-recovery system, relying instead…

15 years ago

IBM Helps Cities Get Smarter, Greener

The tech giant has been outlining its vision for making cities more energy efficient at a conference in Berlin

15 years ago

US Announces Plans For Cyber Command

Plans for the Cyber Command come a month after President Obama declared cyber-security a "national security priority" in a speech

15 years ago

Dell Achieves EPA Green Server Status

Dell officials are announcing that two of its PowerEdge server platforms, the R610 and R710, now meet the requirements needed…

15 years ago

Organisations Realising Real Savings From Virtualisation

The most recent example: San Francisco-based IT services provider BEAR Data Systems, has revealed that its hardware and virtualisation tools…

15 years ago

Mobile Data Centres Could Be Runaway Success

An IDC analyst says that interest in the mobile data centres is high, but the global recession is holding down…

15 years ago

Smart Grid Firm EnerNOC Buys Into Carbon Reporting

EnerNOC expects to use carbon accounting firm eQuilibrium to establish a lead role when companies have to meet greenhouse gas…

15 years ago

Companies Cut IT Costs, Improve Efficiencies

While the economy has forced substantial cost-cutting, investment in areas such as virtualisation and cloud computing will increase

15 years ago

IBM Announces New Green IT Plans

In the environmentally conscious section of enterprise IT, there are two camps: the true green-bleeding companies who innovate, and the…

15 years ago

HP Floats New Cloud Consulting Service

HP is offering new consulting services designed to help enterprises develop and implement a cloud computing strategy

15 years ago

Bing Generates Bling For Microsoft

Microsoft's paid clicks increased by around 15 percent in the first two weeks of Bing's release, Efficient Frontier says

15 years ago

Lost-Laptop Council Breached Data Rules

Stolen laptops had unencrypted personal data - and Manchester City Council's response may not be enough

15 years ago

UK Council Breaches Data Rules Following Laptop Theft

But the organisation says it won't ban the download of important data onto mobile devices but ensure that only "essential…

15 years ago

Wikimedia Moves Into Green European Data Centre

Open information and sustainable infrastructure go hand in hand according to Wikimedia and EvoSwitch

15 years ago

Apple Sold 1Million iPhones In Three Days

Apple sold 1 million iPhone 3G S smartphones in three days, doubling analyst estimates

15 years ago

BigMachines Updates SaaS Sales Platform

BigMachines is the latest company to help streamline enterprise processes such as quote-generation and complex pricing management through the use…

15 years ago

Moka5 Offering Hosted Desktop Virtualisation

Moka5 officials say they have found a way to make desktop virtualisation work for both the business and the end…

15 years ago

Swiss Supercomputer One Of The Largest In Europe

The massively parallel Cray XT5 supercomputer is now capable of delivering a sustained data transfer rate of 20 GB/s for…

15 years ago

James Gosling: Sun Is Better Off At Oracle Than At IBM

The future for Java is an unknown, says its creator James Gosling. But at least Sun Microsystems is owned by…

15 years ago

EC Aims To Slash Red Tape With IT

Around €14 million has been earmarked to improve online services across several European countries

15 years ago

China Calls On Google To Control Explicit Content

China has begun blocking Chinese-language search engine results deemed pornographic and is calling on Google to do more to combat…

15 years ago

IBM Discusses Smarter Planet Plan

IBM has outlined how it is using its Maximo software, gained in its 2006 acquisition of MRO Software, to help…

15 years ago

Citrix Hits VMware with Free XenServer 5.5 Download

The new XenServer has better back-up. conversion and search - and you can get started with a free download. VMware…

15 years ago

EC Predicts Internet-Enabled Yogurt Pots (And Smart Meters)

But only with IPV6 in place and the help of a truly international ICANN says the European Commission

15 years ago