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IBM Ends Legal Tussle With Oracle Over Employee

IBM has dropped its effort to stop a former Big Blue employee from joining rival Oracle

Critical Testing: Mobile Workstation Laptops

Guidance for selecting a mobile workstation for those high-value employees who most process compute-intensive workloads on the road

Oracle SPARC Server Road Map Holds Promise

Oracle executives are finally talking about plans for the high-end Sun SPARC servers. Now they need to execute on those plans, analysts say

Oracle Outlines SPARC And Solaris Road Maps

Oracle officials say Solaris 11 will arrive in 2011, and SPARC performance will at least double every other year until 2015

Cisco Boss Warns Of ‘Wild Card’ Economy

Cisco CEO John Chambers said the market and customer comments were creating “unusual uncertainty” in the economy

Virgin Media Business Launches 10Gbps Service

Virgin Business Media is looking to assist businesses dealing with large data loads with the launch of a faster high-capacity service

Hawking Team Uses Supercomputer To Explore Space

COSMOS is using one of the world's fastest supercomputers to analyse its data and research into the origins of the universe

Two Studies Point To Rise In Tech Hiring

Two studies have shown that while the number of tech job openings has cooled slightly, there has been rise in recruiting activity

Windows Will Be Big In The Cloud, Says Rackspace

Linux rules the cloud, but users want greener servers for Windows too, says hosting provider

Newcastle Data Centre Achieves BREEAM Excellence

A new data centre being built in Cobalt Park in Newcastle has achieved a BREEAM Excellent rating, even before completion

Dell Launches GPU Expansion Chassis For HPC

Dell's PCIe chassis offers 17 Teraflops of GPU power to PowerEdge servers in specialist data centres

Inmarsat Pushes Ahead With Satellite Broadband Plans

Providing broadband via satellite is becoming an increasingly viable way to provide access to remote areas

The Emerging Security Assumption

As embedded security become the norm, vendors talk about it less and less, but embedded security shouldn’t be assumed security, says Larry Walsh

Tektronix Acquires Security Provider Arbor Networks

Tektronix Communications signs a definitive agreement to buy network security provider Arbor Networks

Microsoft And Polycom Launch UC Partnership

Microsoft and Polycom are entering an alliance that will include jointly developing, selling and marketing unified communications products

HP Begins Job Search For New CEO

Details have began to emerge of the woman at the centre of the scandal that led Mark Hurd to resign as boss of HP

The Future Of Spanning Tree Protocol Looks Bleak

Cisco's debut of its FabricPath Switching System for the Nexus 7000 platform shows that Spanning Tree Protocol is on the way out, says Cameron Sturdevant

Analysts Put Positive Spin On HP Scandal

Despite his abrupt exit from HP, former chairman and CEO Mark Hurd and his management team have put the company in a solid position, according to analysts

Green Data Centre IT Showing Growth

Companies are beginning to focus more on implementing systems that will reduce their energy expenses and carbon emissions, according to a report

BT Reprimanded Over Fibre Advert Claims

Another communications provider is in trouble with the advertising regulator, after BT boasted that its fibre-based service could deliver the Internet 'instantly'

Lenovo ThinkCentre Towers Feature Thin Designs

Lenovo engineers “sweated the small stuff” on the new M70e and A70 ThinkCentre towers, shaving power use by 15 percent

Why Data Centre Owners Want Carbon Laws Terminated

The data centre industry wants the government to embrace tech as a force for good when it comes to climate change. Time to sort fact from fiction, says Andrew Donoghue