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Is Sustainability Just A Job For Vendors?
Gartner says users can relax about Green IT and has told vendors to get their act together. Peter Judge asks if we can leave sustainability to the people selling kit
1E Upgrades NightWatchman Power Control
New desktop management software saves Aviva the equivalent of the emissions from 500 cars
IBM: The Mainframe Is Back
IBM's Tom Rosamilia explains why the company’s hardware business, led by the mainframe, can continue to drive profit
Broadcom Releases Samples Of Its 100Gb Ethernet Silicon
Broadcom unveiled the BCM88600 chip for 100GbE switches to meet the growing demands of data and video network traffic
Windows 7 Adoption Spurred On By General Tech Refresh
Microsoft's Windows 7 will see greater adoption by businesses in the coming years, according to Forrester Research
IBM Accelerates Analytics Push With Cognos 10
IBM expands its business analytics strategy with the release of Cognos 10 and other software and services at its Information On Demand conference
Oracle Snaps Up Art Technology Group for £624 Million
Oracle is once again splashing the cash, this time over half a billion pounds for e-commerce software provider Art Technology Group
ITU Sends Satellite Terminals For Pakistan Floods
To get links to flood-ravaged regions of Pakistan, the ITU has installed 100 satellite terminals
F5 Brings Scalability To VMware View 4.5: Review
F5 Networks helps enterprises embrace Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technology with new WAN optimisation and acceleration technology
PayPal Service Disruption Continues In UK
A worldwide PayPal outage on Friday is still continuing for some UK customers, according to reports
CloudSleuth Community Aims To Provide Cloud Insight
The partner-driven CloudSleuth community, launched by Compuware, aims to improve performance of the cloud's federated infrastructure
Bocada Tweaks Prism Data Protection Software
Bocada's new data protection service management software improves reporting on trend analysis and speeds up report rendering
Data Growth Most Pressing Enterprise Concern, Gartner Warns
A new Gartner study has found that data centre managers are most concerned about data growth
BT Broadband Outage Hits 20,000 Homes
BT says it has resolved an issue that left more than 20,000 households without broadband service
Comms Gets Personal With Body Networks
The IT Crowd gets a new definition as researchers in Belfast envisage people as 4G transmitters
Budgets And IT Jobs Predicted To Rise Next Year
The industry is predicted to see a modest rise in IT jobs next year, with budgets also expected to increase
BT Takes Wi-Fi Underground At Charing Cross Tube
BT and London Underground will let commuters browse by testing Wi-Fi at Charing Cross Tube station
China Makes World’s Fastest Supercomputer With Nvidia GPUs
The Tianhe-1A supercomputer in Tianjin uses 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 GPUs and 14,336 CPUs
PCI-DSS 2.0 Emphasises Transaction Log Management
The PCI Security Standards Council has updated the PCI DSS and PA-DSS with clarifications to help businesses improve compliance and security
IBM Tops Gartner And WWF’s Green IT List
Lenovo and Verizon didn't do so well in Gartner and WWF's list of the 19 greenest ICT companies
Ofcom Wants 2G Spectrum Open To Mobile Broadband
Ofcom has begun a consultation process over opening up the 2G radio spectrum for 3G services
MP Slams ICO Over Google WiSpy
The US FTC has cleared Google, but British MPs want the ICO to get tough over it's Wi-Fi snooping
Intel Forms Open Standards Alliance For The Cloud
Open standards are needed for cloud-based data centres, says Intel and its new Open Data Center Alliance
Extreme Switches To Target Virtualised Data Centres And Cloud
Extreme releases Ethernet switches offering greater flexibility in virtualised and cloud computing environments
SAP Preps For Oracle Trial As Revenues Rise
The looming Oracle lawsuit has cast something of a shadow over SAP, despite the company reporting robust revenues and profits
BT Warns Home Hardware Could Hold Back Fibre
100Mbps fibre speeds might be held up by users' routers and Wi-Fi, as well as cloud applications, says BT
Ozzie: Is Microsoft Doomed In The Post-PC World?
Ray Ozzie leaves Microsoft with a warning that it failing to adapt to the cloud-centric world after PCs. Nicholas Kolakowski says he may be right
StorageTek Library Extension For Mainframes Released
Oracle has released a highly-scalable additional tier of storage for mainframes which can also be used in x86-based systems
IBM Replaces 700 SAP Installations With DB2
IBM has boasted that it has managed to displace more than 700 SAP deployments with its DB2 database