As the proportion of power used by network switches in virtualised data centres increases, managers need to think about going green, says Stephen Garrison
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HP Puts Mobile Device Management In The Cloud
To help IT managers keep track of employee smartphones, notebooks and other wireless devices, HP is now offering a cloud-based mobile management system
Seagate Adds USB 3.0 To New External Drives
Seagate is shipping external portable hard drives that now include a USB 3.0 interface, for faster data transfers
BT Offers Fibre Incentives
BT is offering free Infinity upgrades to users who sign up now for one of its standard broadband packages
Mark Hurd Talks Up Oracle Exadata
Newly anointed Oracle co-president Mark Hurd used his keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference to highlight Exadata Database Machine X2-8
Corporate Tango: HP Drops Lawsuit Against Hurd
Hurd will be working full time for Oracle and, since Oracle and HP are closely aligned, the two companies will be strategic partners, says Chris Preimesberger
Man Jailed For Online Money Laundering
American authorities have sentenced a 38-year-old man to six years in prison for laundering money via an online payment system
Boris Sets 2012 Deadline For Mobiles On The Tube
Mobile phones are set to arrive on the Underground by 2012, but mobile operators are being asked to share the installations costs
Yahoo Unveils ‘Chicken Coop’ Green Data Centre
A chicken shed design lets Yahoo equal the world record for data centre efficiency, and cuts energy costs by 40 percent
Google Brings Two-Factor Security To Apps
Google has responded to cloud security fears by increasing security on its Google Apps
Oracle Rolls Out MySQL 5.5 Release Candidate
MySQL Server and InnoDB have been enhanced to improve performance and scalability when running on the latest multi-CPU and multi-core systems
Oracle’s Exalogic Targets Amazon Web Services
Oracle's new offering for private clouds features Oracle's own virtual machine technology and two guest operating systems – Solaris and Linux
Pigeon Beats Rural Broadband In File Transfer Challenge
Feathers could be ruffled at some telco providers after a pigeon turned out to be faster than a broadband connected computer in a file transfer challenge
Scientists Develop Chip For Quantum Computer
British boffins have made a quantum leap with a new photonic chip to power the supercomputers of the future
Dell M4500 Mobile Workstation: Review
While the M4500 holds its own among the latest generation of 15.6-inch power laptops, it is the most expensive to get to 16GB of RAM
Chattering At The Water Cooler
Most social networks are geared for individual rather than corporate promotion, but corporate social networking tools are providing a new angle, says Cameron Sturdevant
eWEEK Readers: Hurd Instinct Threatens HP
Our poll says Mark Hurd's job is to steal HP users, for his best buddy Larry. Next: tell us your favourite browser
Invincea Protects PC Browser Through Virtualisation
By moving Internet Explorer into a virtual environment, Invincea claims it can protect enterprise endpoints from Web-based malware
Quantum Aims Removable Disk System At SMBs
Quantum is looking to the small to medium business market with its entry-level RDX system that includes removable storage cartridges
Zendesk Hosted Customer Help Desk: Review
Zendesk is a hosted customer help desk service that is easy to deploy while remaining quite amenable to customisation
Virtualisation Security Is Prime Concern For IT
A survey of UK IT managers has shown that virtualisation and data security are their key concerns for the next year
Greenpeace Spoof Slates Facebook’s ‘Dirty Data’
A Greenpeace animated video called "The So Coal Network" is taking on the Facebook movie, "The Social Network"
Nokia World Saves The Best Till Last
At Nokia World its CEO-elect put in an appearance while elsewhere a key designer of PalmOS was recruited.
EMC’s New Services For Private Cloud Deployments
EMC is offering improved efficiency and reduced costs when creating Oracle-based virtualised cloud environments to deploy business applications
Dell Shows Off Atom-based Tablet
Dell has offered a sneak peek of an upcoming mobile device that can be run as a tablet or as a netbook at the IDF show
Cisco Adds New Services To Its Data Centre Portfolio
Cisco has revamped its Data Centre 3.0 strategy by adding extensions for its unified computing products and a set of Unified Network Services
Amsterdam Doubles Bandwidth With Brocade 100Gb Switch
Brocade's rumoured 100Gbps Ethernet switch has emerged at Amsterdam's AMS-IX Internet exchange
Intel Workstation Clusters For Low-Cost HPC Power
Intel claims that businesses can access HPC-levels of compute power using its cube-clustered computing concept.
On-Demand Workload Provisioning With Cloud Manager
Novell's hypervisor-agnostic, cloud management product offers a built-in connector to the company’s Sentinel security platform.
First Virtualised Database Platform From Startup Delphix
Creating Delphix virtual copies of databases to run concurrently on disk offers new outlook for database administrators.