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Cisco's entry to the blade server market back in March raised a few eyebrows from traditional server providers, but the networking giant has now unveiled some new additions and pricing details for its rack-mounted servers.
IBM has kept hold the mainframe market illegally, say critics, tying hardware and software, and witholding licences. The issue is under investigation now
Despite estimates that energy prices could increase by as much as 60 percent, the government has said smart metering could help cut bills in the long term
Adobe Systems has unveiled a slew of product announcements around its ColdFusion development environment
IBM's big iron business is reportedly facing a probe from federal investigators, over possible antitrust violations.
The government's universal broadband provision may be slower than we'd like, but it's an essential part of social inclusion, said the former Minister behind Digital Britain
Parallels has launched a bare metal hypervisor, aimed at application service providers.
Panda MOP reduces end point security costs, protecting servers and workstations from malware, and is truly cloud-based, allowing all systems to be managed from a central location anywhere
After a bruising summer of fighting between Microsoft and open source activists, not many people took Microsoft's open source body - Codeplex - seriously. Jason Brooks asks, what if it's serious?
Connecting individual homes is too costly for some developing countries but schools can act as a broadband hub for an entire community, according to the UN
The cloud is here - within limits - said CEO Steve Ballmer, in a London visit to promote Windows 7 and the rest of Microsoft's current catalaogue
Some of the Windows licence fine print includes deliberate "gotchas", Microsoft CEO Ballmer admitted - and he has no plans to make things simpler
Users may have to choose which apps to put in the cloud, and some should wait till their industry accepts it, warns cloud provider Savvis
With the Spirit cloud infrastructure project on the launchpad, Savvis' CTO Bryan Doerr has plenty to say when we ask him whether users are ready to trust the cloud
Digital services must be Europe-wide says commissioner Vivian Reding
European legal committee member Brian Crowley has publicly supported an Irish investment by Intel - which was recently fined €1 million for market abuse
People wanting to start their own "dot-anything" domain, will have to wait for ICANN to rule on potential trademark conflicts
Two men authorities tied to a phishing scheme pleaded not guilty to charges of identity theft and bank fraud after being extradited to the United States
Broadband Britain may have concentrated too hard on coverage, while quality will have more impact on society, according to a study
But internal tech staff will be kept busy on the roll-out of internal IT private cloud technology for the near future
The networking giant has made an offer of $3bn (£1.9bn) for its Norwegian rival in the market for video calls
Salesforce.com, SAP and several other companies have lined up to show off applications they created using the APIs from the open-source Google Wave platform.
A new permanent agreement between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration declares ICANN is independent and not controlled by any one entity.
Database giant Oracle is fined $10,000 and directed to take corrective action after running an ad in The Wall Street Journal and The Economist
A US bank has had a Gmail user's account closed down, simply because the bank accidentally sent private data to it. Cloud services expose us to the consequences of others' stupidity, says Jim Rapoza
Defence sites across the UK will be fitted with energy efficiency monitoring technology despite security concerns raised by experts about the technology
Environmental laws will replace cost cutting as the main motivation for developing energy efficient data centres, says analyst Gartner
Not only does it virtualise Windows, and move all your software and files with the bundled cable and migration tools included, it teaches you Mac too
While Broadband Britain is concentrating on penetration, a study shows that quality may be just as important
Joseph Hirko, former co-CEO of Enron Broadband Services, gets 16 months in prison and is ordered to pay $7 million in restitution after pleading guilty to wire fraud.