Regulation

Sun Shareholders Launch Lawsuits Against Oracle Deal

The legal actions claim that the £4.8bn compensation proposed by Oracle is unfair and inadequate

16 years ago

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

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

Ballmer Discusses “Valuable” Yahoo Deal

Microsoft and Yahoo had a much-publicised battle in 2008 surrounding a possible takeover

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

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…

16 years ago

Vizioncore Manages Multiple Virtual Machines

vControl lets end users set up virtual machines in the leading hypervisor environments - and IT can manage them all…

16 years ago

IBM Makes Its SMB Blades More Dynamic

Upgrades to the BladeCenter Express product should let smaller businesses save power and mix operating systems, IBM says

16 years ago

Microsoft To Lose Another 3000 Staff

That more or less completes the 5000 announced earlier. But there could be more in store

16 years ago

ISO 27001 Security Management? “It’s Bloody Brilliant!”

Security standards let management push back against over-enthusiastic IT security fans, says governance expert Alan Calder

16 years ago

UK Spies Compare Web Monitoring To WWII Codebreaking

GCHQ claims an internet surveillance project is nothing sinister but simply part of its ongoing struggle to keep pace with…

16 years ago

Windows Server 2008 R2: Better For Virtualisation

The new 64-bit-only Windows Server hosts a number of virtualisation improvements but migration may be problematic

16 years ago

Windows 7’s Costly Compatibility Issues

Polished yes, but elevated costs ensuring hardware and software compatibility may hold back business adoption of Windows 7

16 years ago

EU Wants ICANN Free Of US Government Control

Less government involvement in a fully privatised ICANN is the way forward according to European regulators

16 years ago

Microsoft SharePoint Secured

How to cut through the hype and choose the right SharePoint security product.

16 years ago

IT Cuts Create Long-Term Risks

Half-baked IT cuts now could harm your company in the future, according to research from Deloitte

16 years ago

IBM Combines Cloud And SOA

WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance gives businesses a place to store SOA images and patterns that can then be brought into cloud…

16 years ago

Seagate Launches Self-Managing Back-up Appliance

The Replica appliance from Seagate Technology safeguards applications, operating systems and all other data, without any human intervention

16 years ago

AMD Believes There Is Life After 40

The anniversary comes at a time when AMD is fighting a two-front battle against rival Intel and a global recession

16 years ago

Cloud Computing Forerunner Facing Bankruptcy

Cassatt, the infrastructure management software company started by BEA Systems founder Bill Coleman, is running out of money

16 years ago

How To Run An Efficient Data Centre

The technology to make data centres more efficient is well-proven - but it's only implemented on a minority of data…

16 years ago

HP ProCurve Jumps Into The Firewall Market

Hewlett-Packard's ambition to offer under-one-roof network security starts with ProCurve Firewall, putting HP head to head with other security vendors.

16 years ago

NHS Moves To Microsoft Exchange

The world's biggest email migration went all right. But what about the stalled £12.7 billion project for patient records?

16 years ago

IBM Takes Brocade Equipment To Fight Off Cisco

IBM will sell Brocade's Ethernet switches under its own brand - in response to Cisco's move to sell servers

16 years ago

UK IT Employment Still Better Than Post Y2K

The recession is taking its toll but conditions are not as dire as previously believed according to research

16 years ago

IBM Computer To Compete In TV Game Show

IBM researchers have worked for two years to create a system that can understand and respond to open-ended, natural-language questions

16 years ago