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Efficient Cogeneration Power For New Facebook HQ
Facebook is ensuring its new headquarters in California is a fit place for sustainable living
Red Gate To Send Lucky Database Admin Into Orbit
A competition exclusively for DBAs will send one into space - but Red Gate promises to bring them back
Rackspace Now Supporting On-Site Private Clouds
Rackspace has expanded its support to manage OpenStack private clouds in customers' data centres
Apple’s iCloud Will Attract New Developers
The launch of the iPhone App Store created a rush to build third-party services. J Gerry Purdy thinks iCloud may have the same effect
Broader Campus Networking Ability From Brocade
Brocade is unveiling campus networking products to undercut and outperform Cisco and others
Vidyo Takes Soft Approach To Cloud Conferencing
The Virtualized VidyoRouter will take video conferencing to public, private and hybrid cloud environments
HP May Be Settling Its WebOS Indecision
Hewlett-Packard executives are meeting to decide the fate of its webOS division, according to reports
Fujitsu Preps 23.2 Petaflops Supercomputer Launch
Fujitsu is commercially entering the supercomputer sector with the launch of a 23.3 petaflops machine
Tech City Firms Get Intel Supercomputer
Intel will offer free supercomputing access to startups in London's Silicon Roundabout
Taming Consumer Devices In Business
As consumerisation blurs the lines of personal and professional, Comtact’s Dominic List looks at ways to cope
Cloud Could Cut Electricity Bill By £1.2bn
Cloud can reduce emissions and energy consumption across the IT estate by 50 percent
Hackers For Hire At Bargain Prices
The cost of hiring a hacker is so affordable and effective, it is no wonder the craft is expanding, reveals Eric Doyle
Adoption Of Cloud Recovery Service Increases
Gartner research has discovered a growing uptake of recovery-as-a-service (RAAS) among businesses
RBS Confirms Weekend Online Banking Outage
RBS has confirmed that its online banking service is back and working, after failing at the weekend
How Can Schmidt Claim Google Is Not Dominant?
Google's chairman has already said that the search giant is in the monopoly class. Clint Boulton is stunned to hear him denying it now
One Third Of Enterprises Plan To Switch Hypervisor
Enterprises want to virtualise more, but don't necessarily intend to do it with their current hypervisor
Consumers Hold Firms Accountable For Breaches
Consumers demand better data protection or their business goes elsewhere: Unisys Security Index
AMD To Axe 10 Percent Of Staff In Cost-Savings Push
AMD says the job cuts will position the company to pursue efforts in low-power computing and the cloud
IBM Uses Analytics To Boost Security Systems
IBM's data analytics expertise is being applied to data from several sources to identify security threats
Small Business Confidence Rises, Hiring Flatlines
A survey of small businesses in the US has revealed they are feeling more positive, but hiring remains depressed
Kroll Ontrack Updates E-Discovery Cloud Service
Kroll Ontrack updates its cloud-based e-discovery software to better enable internal document discovery
Virgin’s 100Mbps Broadband Reaches 20m Brits
Virgin's superfast broadband network is now available to 20 million people in Britain - or a third of the population
Red Hat: The Integrated Stack Is Critical
Embedded virtualisation makes more sense than having a layer of software underlying the operating system, says Navin Thadani
Apple Admits iPhone 4S Battery Drain, Promises Fix
Apple has admitted there are battery life problems in iPhone 4S but an iOS 5 update is in hand to reduce the load
Informatica Teams Up On Free Hadoop Parser
The Informatica/Hortonworks parser turns complex data into structured or semi-structured format in Hadoop
Bocada Launches VM Backup Monitoring Package
Bocada Vision addresses issues of VM recoverability by providing insight into backup success and recovery points
IBM Watson Goes To School
IBM has taken its Watson computer to Harvard and MIT school to test students' skills
AMD Grows Thanks to Notebook APU Traction
New figures from Mercury have pointed to a rise in AMD's processor share, but Intel dipped slightly
CSR Promises Indoor Navigation With New Chip
CSR has developed a 'breakthrough' chip that it says can even work indoors, and tell what floor you are on