Datacentre

Oracle On The Prowl For Chip Maker

Shares in ARM Holdings rose 6 percent when Oracle boss Larry Ellison said that he may purchase a chip company

14 years ago

Network Vendors Play The Green Card

Data centres could make "huge" energy savings through lower energy networks, says Juniper

14 years ago

Growing Global IT Debt Hits $500 Billion, Reports Gartner

There is an urgent need to plan for application overhaul to address growing IT debts from maintenance backlogs, Gartner reports

14 years ago

European Parliament Calls For EU-Wide Copyright Law

As if the UK Copyright Act was not controverisal enough, now the European Parliament is calling for a wide ranging…

14 years ago

London Remains Largest European Data Centre Market

Campuses oputside the capital may overtake it in total space, but London will stay the largest data centre market in…

14 years ago

Carbon Markets: Reinventing Capitalism Or Rebranding Socialism?

If we really want to reduce carbon emissions and avert an energy crisis, Peter Judge thinks it's time to move…

14 years ago

Cost-cutting Power7 Express Servers From IBM

IBM is rolling out Power7 Express servers for smaller enterprises and cost-conscious businesses

14 years ago

SGI Ships HPC Storage Arrays For Mixed Workloads

The SGI InfiniteStorage 16000 system features industrial-strength data storage and dual-level speeds of 8Gb Fibre and 40Gb InfiniBand

14 years ago

LTE Network Goes Live In Las Vegas

A 4G LTE network has been activated in Las Vegas by MetroPCS Communications, which plans to extend it to other…

14 years ago

Up To 5,000 Firms Could Face CRC Fines Next Week

Fines for non-registration to the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme before 30 September could net the government up to £1.5 million

14 years ago

It’s Time For Local Authorities To Get Open Source

A commitment to open source by a local authority in the UK could be groundbreaking, says Mark Taylor of Sirius

14 years ago

Bristol Council Mulls Open Source/Microsoft Tie Up

Bristol City Council is considering a scheme which adopts open source alongside existing Microsoft software

14 years ago

Data Centres Need Green Switches

As the proportion of power used by network switches in virtualised data centres increases, managers need to think about going…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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

14 years ago

BT Offers Fibre Incentives

BT is offering free Infinity upgrades to users who sign up now for one of its standard broadband packages

14 years ago

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

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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

14 years ago

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…

14 years ago

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"

14 years ago