What does the name of Fujitsu's new blade-based data centre system, the Dynamic Cube, actually mean? Forget the speeds and feeds - Peter Judge wants occult significance
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Aruba Launches Virtual Branch Offices
Remote networking made easy, says the wireless specialist
Fujitsu Claims Energy Lead With Dynamic Cube Primergy BX900
Cisco and HP should fear the German engineering in this brute's cooling system, and its two extra blades, says Fujitsu
Government Demands Green IT Metrics As Standard
The UK Department for Work and Pensions says it won't pay extra for information about the carbon impact and efficiency of IT products and services
Sun Shareholders Launch Lawsuits Against Oracle Deal
The legal actions claim that the £4.8bn compensation proposed by Oracle is unfair and inadequate
Intel And Novell Planning Netbook Linux Platform
Novell announced it will create a Moblin-based product for netbooks that it will push to OEMs and ODMs.
Google Discusses Plan For Greater Openess
At least one consumer advocacy group has decided to refute the search engine giant's claims in a particularly high-profile way
CA Pushes Mainframe Future
Mainframe vendors such as IBM and CA are aggressively pushing forward the mainframe as an alternative to more distributed environments
UK Claims World’s First “Mandated” Green IT Targets
An update to the Greening Government ICT strategy this July will include 10 "mandated targets".. but will that mandate be backed with penalties?
Extreme Brings Hibernation To Network Blades
If your blades can go to sleep, then your hot standby network can be a bit cooler, says Extreme Networks
3Com Launches New H3C Brand and Enterprise Switch
Updated: There's life in 3Com yet. It's pressing its home-market advantage... from its Chinese customer base
Sustainable Supply And the Trouble With Tantalum
There's more to sustainable IT than low-power servers. consider the materials with which your equipment is made, and you may get a shock, says Simon Perry
Gmail Suffers Two New Outages
Google's Gmail service reportedly failed at 11am this morning - but our evidence is there was an earlier failure with some emails not restored
BCS Launches “Formal” Green IT Qualification
Issues such as the impact of environmental legislation and reducing carbon emissions will be covered in the three day course and exam
Businesses Will Buy 3.5m Netbooks in 2010
Research firm Techaisle predicts netbook sales worldwide will climb in 2009 and 2010 as IT budgets get trimmed and companies look to cut technology costs
Dell And Nvidia Back Affordable Supercomputing
Dell is offering Nvidia's Tesla GPU technology in three of its Precision workstations, a move it says will make supercomputing capabilities more affordable to users
Ballmer Discusses “Valuable” Yahoo Deal
Microsoft and Yahoo had a much-publicised battle in 2008 surrounding a possible takeover
Google’s Brin Discusses Cloud’s Silver Lining
Despite the global economic recession, Brin is optimistic about Google's ability to innovate and exploit upcoming IT revolutions such as cloud computing
Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) Has Security Gaps
Cisco has formed impressive partnerships for its new UCS, but why is there no security provider.on the list?
After Ten Years, Is IPv6 Finally Needed?
Internet founder Vint Cerf says the address crisis is serious now - and this time Google believes it
Oracle Is Nuts To Stick With Sun Hardware
Larry Ellison has committed Oracle to investing more in Sun's SPARC, apparently because he think servers are like iPhones. That's just silly, says Peter Judge
Siemens Offers Whole-Company Green IT Consultancy
Siemens IT for Sustainability could be what the IT department needs to green the other 90 percent of the company
Met Office Wants Green DC Supercomputers
The government's weather prediction department would waste less energy if it avoided converting from DC to AC current - but it still needs more power
BA: Too Much Vendor “Bollocks” In Green IT
The chief information officer of BA defended the airline's green efforts - while sniping at "greenwash" from IT vendors
Green IT Is Mainstream: Now Comes The Hard Part
The move to greener IT is unstoppable - even in a recession. But IT departments have a tough job getting their message with the other 90 percent of the company, says Forrester's Chris Mines.
Swede Faces Nasa-hacking Charges
After a federal investigation, the 21-year-old man now faces multiple charges here in the United States
SSDs Could Save Equivalent Of Gambia’s Entire Power Usage
SSD market researcher iSuppli says the increased deployment of SSDs could enable the world's data centres to reduce their cumulative electricity consumption by a whopping 166,643 megawatt hours from 2008 to 2013
Cisco Reports 24 Percent Profits Fall
Product sales decreased by 22 percent, while service maintenance sales climbed by 9.4 percent, Cisco says.
Green PC Specialist Sets Sights on Server
PC power management specialist 1E is launching a product aimed at the server
Deutsche Bank: Blades Key To Green Data Centres
The banking group believes that providing they are deployed in the right way, blade servers are most efficient way to turn energy into computing power