Datacentre

BT’s SmartReach To Advise On Smart Meter Rollout

BT, Arqiva and Detica have formed the SmartReach consortium to speed up rollout of smart meters

14 years ago

European E-Waste Directive Delayed Until 2011

Rules governing the recycling of old IT equipment have been delayed yet again, after the WEEE directive was pushed back…

14 years ago

Botnet Warning As Spammers Prep For Holiday Season

Security expert are warning that new botnets are on the way after recording a rise in virus activity in the…

14 years ago

Internet Users To Exceed Two Billion People By Year End

More and more people are utilising the Internet, with a third of the world's population expected to have some form…

14 years ago

HP Builds For The Future With Data Centre Training

Building a data centre requires a specialised skills set, HP is offering an education path with its new training programme

14 years ago

IBM Includes Windows In Its Test Cloud

IBM has enhanced its Smart Business Development and Test package for the IBM Cloud and added support for Windows

14 years ago

Does Gartner Think The Green Data Centre Is Done?

The top analyst firm has crossed Green IT off its list of priorities for CIOs next year, says Peter Judge.…

14 years ago

Chancellor Pledges £1bn For Green Investment Bank

The government has renewed its sustainable commitment with £1 billion investment for a Green Investment Bank

14 years ago

Cameron Pledges £650m To Cyber Defence Strategy

Prime Minster David Cameron kicked off national cyber security funding with the announcement of a £650 million budget

14 years ago

Unisys ClearPath Mainframes Gain Home-Grown Virtualisation

Unisys brings sPar virtualisation to its ClearPath mainframes that take advantage of speciality engines on the systems

14 years ago

North East England Set For Smart Grid Trial

A smart grid project is being proposed that could see 14,000 smart meters installed in homes and business across the…

14 years ago

Scientists Advance Toward ‘Spin’ Computers

A breakthrough at a California university could mean faster computers with no need to boot up

14 years ago

FSF Fights BSA Over EC Support For Open Standards

The Free Software Foundation has accused the BSA of sabotaging the EC's support for open standards

14 years ago

Video: Virtualisation Benefits Exposed At IP Expo

Cutting hardware and saving energy pale beside the simple savings in admin time, say IT managers

14 years ago

CA Boosts Profile Of Cloud Automation Suite

The new product line includes updated products and some new tools for automating and standardising virtualisation and cloud management

14 years ago

Ray Ozzie Quits Key Microsoft Role

Ray Ozzie is to step down from his role as Microsoft's chief software architect, with no plans to refill the…

14 years ago

Google: Instant Search Is Expensive

The new Google Instant feature is popular with users, but imposes a heavy load on the company's technical infrastructure

14 years ago

‘Get Online Week’ Takes Aim At Web Novices

Internet virgins are being targeted in a new seven day drive aimed at getting people to try out the World…

14 years ago

Study: Fibre Bandwidth ‘Capacity Crunch’ Coming

Even fibre optics have limits, according to research by the University of Southampton

14 years ago

Google’s Ad Business Booms Thanks To YouTube

Google officials have claimed the search engine is making $2.5bn in display advertising from YouTube and $1bn in mobile ads

14 years ago

Unified Comms Suite From Star Targets SME Market

A unified communications service is being offered by Star as a SaaS service for £45 per user per month

14 years ago

Blade Launches 40G RackSwitch For Data Centres

New RackSwitch G8264 brings 40G capabilities to the data centre with advanced network management and virtualisation capabilities

14 years ago

Why Oracle Won’t Buy EMC Anytime Soon

A merger between Oracle and EMC would not simply create a larger Oracle but a conglomeration of some of the…

14 years ago

Major Increase In Cyber Defence Spending Expected

Despite spending cuts across the board, the government is expected next week to invest £1 billion to foil cyber attacks

14 years ago

Informix Database Updated For Performance

IBM has updated its Informix database with particular emphasis on improving the overall performance

14 years ago

IP Expo: Take My Phone But Leave My Network Alone

Survey finds that most businesses would rather lose their phone service than their Internet Protocol (IP) connection

14 years ago

HP Joins Others In Signing Government MoU

HP has joined the likes of Oracle and Microsoft, plus big name IT services firms, to sign a Memorandum of…

14 years ago

EMC Moves into Big Database World with Greenplum Appliance

EMC's answer to the Oracle Exadata and IBM Netezza servers is the Greenplum Data Computing Appliance

14 years ago

Energy Efficiency: Storage Steals A March

Everyone wants more efficient kit in their data centres, says Peter Judge. It looks like storage has got ahead of…

14 years ago

VMware Automates Its Cloud IT Services

The provisioning process of vCloud Director gains workflow automation through VMware's Request Manager

14 years ago