A couple of years back, we heard that servers would be going to liquid cooling,. The idea seems to be resurfacing, says Peter Judge
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Simpler, Easier Campus Networks Promised In Brocade’s HyperEdge Plans
Brocade aims to ease campus LAN management with HyperEdge, to be released next year as part of the its Effortless Network push
Xeon E5 Servers Cut Energy And Eat Big Data: In Pictures
Major server vendors unveil more energy efficient Xeon E5 servers in London
CeBIT 2012: IBM Announces Cloud-Based Desktop Streaming
With a USB stick and a cloud service, IBM is offering a secure enterprise desktop
Micron Introduces First Enterprise 2.5-inch PCIe SSD
The PCIe interface on a hot-swappable 2.5-inch card gives data centre administrators a high-speed option for storage servers
Intel Rolls Out Energy-Efficient Xeon E5 Chips For Cloud And Big Data
IBM, Dell, HP, Hitachi unveil Intel’s Xeon servers offering 80 percent more performance and 50 percent better energy efficiency
AMD Offloads Last Stake In Globalfoundries
AMD has sold the last of its stake in chip fabrication company Globalfoundries, its former manufacturing unit
IBM’s Watson Heads To Wall Street With Citigroup
IBM's Watson is heading to Wall Street following an agreement between IBM and Citigroup's banking operations
Amazon Slashes Cloud Prices Again
Amazon Web Services issues 18th price cut in six years without any "competitive pressure"
Mobile World Congress’s Illusory Highlights
There were plenty of interesting stories from Mobile World Congress 2012, says Peter Judge. But not the ones you expected
Suffolk Schools Wired Up To High Speed Network
Schools, libraries and council buildings in Suffolk have been connected to a high speed network
New Cloud Jobs Are Just Vapour
Resarch from IDC and Microsoft claims that the cloud will create 14 million jobs. Clive Longbottom does not agree
IDC: Cloud Services To Create IT Jobs
Cloud computing services will help to create millions of new jobs over the next few years, according to a Microsoft-commissioned IDC study
Siemens Study Touts Benefits Of Pure IP Infrastructure
Siemens' report also found that businesses are taking a hybrid approach to the cloud
MapR Hadoop Inks Informatica Tie-In
The MapR Hadoop open source batch analytics software package will become available with Informatica's data integration platform through four different vendors
WatchGuard Beefs Up SMB Portfolio With New Appliances
WatchGuard has introduced the XTM 25 and 26 appliances to safeguard small-business networks
Germans Reveal 512Gbps Data Transmission Breakthrough
The fastest fibre transmission in the world, sent data at 512Gbps from Berlin to Hanover and back
G-Cloud Completes First Sale
The government's cloud framework has its first paying customer, despite an outage last week
Comms Expo 2012
COMMS EXPO is the industry leading conference and exhibition for the network and data communications industry.
Content Carries No Legal Liability For Hosts Of Social Media Sites
Google's Blogger site has been likened to a wall of graffiti in a landmark decision that it cannot be sued for malicious content
40 Percent Of UK Businesses Suffered Security Breaches Due To Spam
Survey reveals that most companies rely on insufficient spam-trapping features of their antivirus software
Unmanageable Windows Tablets Do Not Change Anything
Microsoft may have missed a manageability trick with its low-power tablets but it is still ARMed and dangerous, argues Eric Doyle
Mainframe Developer Skills In Short Supply, Compuware Warns
A new Compuware study has revealed that most CIOs are ill-prepared for the shortage of mainframe developers
Cray Makes Big Data Move With Analytics Appliance
Cray is aiming to assist companies dealing with 'big data' analytics with the launch of its new graph appliance
Infinity To Open Data Centre In Stockley Park
Company says getting more data centres within the M25 is a matter of finding the power
Government Departments May Miss Cloud Targets
A senior figure at HMRC has warned that large government departments may miss their Cloud computing targets
Lessons Must Be Learned From Azure’s Leap Year Glitch
Enterprises need to manage their own systems as if it were all on-premises says Chris Preimesberger
Microsoft Will Make Hadoop Data Available Through Excel
With Excel output, the Big Data crunching platform could become more appealing to smaller companies
Microsoft Windows Server 8 Beta Made Available For Testing
Windows Server 8 beta has been released to IT departments for testing and to gain feedback on refining the final release
Apple Could Be Working On Adaptive Audio Streaming
Promise of higher music quality for desktops, and higher download speeds for mobile devices