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Update: Gmail is back, after a two-hour outage. The company has not yet said how many people were affected, but twitter traffic from round the world reveals a major outage. That's a pain for millions of ordinary users - but it could be ...
The Midlands now has a cloud computing data centre, which lets local companies grow without huge IT investments, says ADA Technology Services.
Managing IP addresses on an enterprise network could be easier thanks to a new module, which network appliance maker Infoblox says is the iTunes of networking.
UK-based low-energy system maker VeryPC has announced new models, including a storage processor with up to 12TB of storage and dual Intel Xeon processors with up to 48GB or RAM.
Network access control is a useless marketing buzzword; users and vendors should just get on with security management, experts have said.
Figures just released for PC shipments in Q4 2008 reveal the big inroads made by mini-notebooks into the Western European portable market, which drove sales for various leading manufacturers.
The first results of an annual IDC survey reveal that UK enterprises are approaching 2009 IT budgets with caution and prioritise cost-cutting and efficiency projects.
A standard for energy-efficient Ethernet, due in 2010, will unleash a barrage of green marketing, promising savings for IT managers
Whether they act to stave off a global crisis, or a meltdown in their own budgets, IT professionals need to have better information if they are going to clean up their act.
Now the word is out: there is money to be made in sustainable IT, we can expect the usual feeding frenzy as vendors try to cash in. This time, we can't afford to fall for phony greenwash.
The UK government will slash its IT spending, in a bid for greater standardisation and simplification, according to Treasury advisor Martin Read.
The energy provider has consolidated its data centres across Europe amid rising power prices
System management announcements can be vague; stir in the cloud and you have a recipe for complete incoherence. But IBM's cloud announcements have substance, analysts say.
Intel has delayed the four-core "Tukwila" `version of its Itanium processor, originally billed as the first 2 billion transistor chip and scheduled for 2007.
Intel will give details of a 2.3 billion transistor, eight core processor, and smarter system-on-chip (SOC) modules that include wireless networking and graphics on the die itself, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, ...
Sustainable IT departments will have to weather some big changes. One of the largest is the move to virtual servers. What, we asked Citrix, is so green about virtualization?
The new release of Citrix's XenDesktop product aims to make desktop virtualization cheaper and friendlier for office workers, by increasing the number of desktops that one server can support while improving multimedia and voice deliver ...
Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free Solaris-based OS shows that Sun will not follow IBM and HP in letting ...
IBM and the U. S Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have signed a new contract to build the next generation of IBM's BlueGene supercomputers at the famed DOE facility. The first IBM BlueGene supercomputer, ca ...
How ready is Windows 7? Ready enough so there will be no Beta 2. Microsoft plans to go directly from Beta 1 to release candidate.
CIRBA announced Version 5.1 of its virtualization capacity management tool on the 28th January, 2009. I'll be reviewing CIRBA 5.1, and here's why. As virtual infrastructure pervades the data centre, capacity planning--along with other ...
Panasonic is adding new features and functionality to its line of rugged Toughbook laptops, designed for use in more strenuous environments. The Panasonic Toughbook 30 laptop and the Panasonic Toughbook 19 tablet notebook offer improve ...
IBM has laid off some 2,800 employees, with more to come, according to the Alliance@IBM organisation. Big Blue has had job cuts in both its Software Group and its sales and distribution group, with more to come in the company's Systems ...
A European court rejects Intel's request to delay a hearing in front of the European Commission, Europe's main antitrust body. The case against Intel, still the world's largest producer of x86 processors for PCs and servers, dates back ...
A new survey shows 44 percent of the wireless devices used by retailers are vulnerable to attacks by data thieves. And that's the good news. A year ago, the same Motorola survey showed 85 percent of retailers were sitting targets for d ...
IT is a serious polluter - but it's also the key to reducing carbon outputs, says Dr Hamadoun Touré of the ITU. We can use technology to slash our emissions, and still save the third world, he says. And while we are about it, why do ...
The IT industry has a poor record of wasting energy in data centres, says server maker Sun Microsystems. But the company wants to make amends: it has attacked the source of the problem, and rewritten the rules for cooling and power.
In the current economic slowdown, IT administrators are under constant pressure to build and maintain solid networks while every equipment purchase they make is scrutinised. Knowledge Centre contributor Paul Hooper offers five ways tha ...
Advanced Micro Devices is updating its line of 45-nanometer Opteron processors with five new energy-efficient models that work within 55-watt thermal envelopes. In addition, AMD is rolling out a pair of high-performance, 45-nm Opteron ...
UPDATED: Sun confirms that layoff notifications were sent to about 1,300 employees as the result of its action 14th November, 2008. Reductions were made across all levels, including vice presidents and directors, the company says.