Datacentre

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bletchley Park Gets £250,000 Government Funding

Second world war codebreaking centre Bletchley Park has been given a £250,000 government grant to pay for repairs to the…

15 years ago

Mandelson Adds Government Backing For Innovation Centres

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has announced Government support for the development of a network of technology and innovation centres

15 years ago

Talking Cars Take A Trip In Amsterdam

Smart vehicle projects funded by the European Commission have been undergoing tests in the Dutch city

15 years ago

IBM Launches Out-Of-The-Box Smart Grid Tech

IBM and eMeter have announced a bundled software package of eMeter’s software bundled on IBM Power7 systems for Smart Grid…

15 years ago

US Moves To Protect Electricity Grid From Attack

The Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense Act would take measures to protect the electricity grid from telecommunications intrusions

15 years ago

Dell Launches Private Cloud Systems

Dell is introducing a new suite of hardware software and services to support cloud computing infrastructures

15 years ago

Dell Fine Tunes Servers And Services For The Cloud

Dell has taken the wraps off new hardware, software and services offerings that are optimised for cloud computing environments

15 years ago

Budget Looks To Green Power, But IT Mostly Ignored

Despite the precarious state of public finances, the Chancellor has announced funding for a green investment bank - but, overall,…

15 years ago

UK Uses Space Data To Combat Climate Change

As well as helping to meet green goals, the new space centre will generate UK jobs

15 years ago

Data Centre Undergoes Tech Refresh While Still Live

A data centre belonging to Hounslow Borough Council has been refurbished and upgraded, while still operating a 'live' environment

15 years ago