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Transformational Disaster Recovery In A Hybrid Universe

Cloud services and virtualisation are opening up new potential for disaster recovery, providing flexibility, cost savings and choice

AMD Hires Intel Engineer As Server CTO

AMD has reached into the ranks of its larger rival, hiring former Intel engineer Donald Newell as vice president and CTO of its server business.

Enterprises Increasingly Keen On IAAS, Yankee Finds

More and more enterprises are adopting Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS), a new report from the Yankee Group has discovered

HP Opens Bidding War With Dell Over 3PAR

Dell is not the only one after storage company 3Par, after HP threw its hat into the ring and made a formal offer for the company

Analysts Question Intel-McAfee Deal

Industry analysts see a number of challenges facing Intel if it successfully acquires McAfee

Intel’s McAfee Buyout Takes Security To The Next Level

Intel’s purchase of McAfee could make security a ubiquitous feature across a wide variety of smart devices and consumer products

Intel’s McAfee Acquisition Means Chip-Level Security

Intel is buying software security firm McAfee for $7.9 billion. It’s now time to bake security into the hardware rather than layer it on, says Eric Lundquist

HP Announces Strong Results, But No Hurd Replacement

The company pushes sales and R&D plans as it continues to wrestle with its ex-CEO's sudden departure

eWEEK Readers Doubt The Cloud

Years of hype haven't convinced eWEEK Europe readers. Half our poll don't trust the cloud. Next: how are you going to get greener?

Oracle Takes Aim At VMware

Oracle is taking on a more aggressive virtualisation stance against the better-established competition

IT Investment To Rise, But Employees Look To Flee

Enterprises are to increase IT spending this year, but it may not be enough to keep employees on board

Chip Market Grows As Intel Dominates, IDC Finds

Worldwide sales and shipments of PC microprocessor units saw uncharacteristic growth during the second quarter of 2010, IDC has found

Silly Season: Electricity From Waste Server Heat?

It's not perpetual motion, but the idea of generating electricity from server heat is a very wasteful way to save energy, says Peter Judge

Microsoft Working On ‘Orleans’ Cloud Technology

Uncovered documents describe 'Orleans' as a programming model that could augment Windows Azure

Chip Start-Up Focuses On Probability Processing

Many now ubiquitous applications are not looking for the yes/no answers, but rather the best guess answer from among a number of possibilities

HP Boosts Security With Fortify Acquisition

Despite its recent executive turmoil, HP has announced that it plans to acquire Fortify Software for an undisclosed sum

Environment Agency Plants Itself In Green Data Centre

The UK Environment agency is using Capgemini's Swindon data centre, claimed to be the world's greenest with a PUE of 1.08

Dell’s 3PAR Buy Will Boost Its Enterprise Strategy

Dell's acquisition of IT storage provider 3PAR, which develops virtualised storage solutions, allows it to expand its broader enterprise portfolio

Continuity Adds Private Cloud Capabilities To Recovery Software

RecoverGuard Version 5.2's Private Cloud Advisor provides full availability and recoverability in the private cloud, or pool of shared data storage

Hacked Widget Compromises Parked Domains

The compromised widget launched a drive-by attack against users running Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera

IBM Announces New Power7 Systems

The new systems are part of a year-long rollout of workload-optimised systems for the demands of emerging business models such as smart electrical grids

Dell Puts Badge On Aruba Wireless LAN

Offices need Wi-Fi, says Dell, as it agrees to sell Aruba kit under its own badge

Oracle Axes OpenSolaris Development

The company will no longer allow open source developers to participate in the development of Solaris, according to an internal email

Toshiba Launches Faster NAND For Solid State Drives

The company says its Toggle Mode NAND uses a faster interface than conventional asynchronous NAND memory, with lower power consumption than other synchronous DDR NAND chips

Bournemouth Sewer Fibre Rollout Sinks

Plans to wire up the UK town of Bournemouth using the sewer system have fallen through following 'contractual problems'

IBM Ends Legal Tussle With Oracle Over Employee

IBM has dropped its effort to stop a former Big Blue employee from joining rival Oracle

Critical Testing: Mobile Workstation Laptops

Guidance for selecting a mobile workstation for those high-value employees who most process compute-intensive workloads on the road

Oracle SPARC Server Road Map Holds Promise

Oracle executives are finally talking about plans for the high-end Sun SPARC servers. Now they need to execute on those plans, analysts say

Oracle Outlines SPARC And Solaris Road Maps

Oracle officials say Solaris 11 will arrive in 2011, and SPARC performance will at least double every other year until 2015