Besides the obvious benefits, liquid cooling lets you simplify your data centre, says Peter Judge
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Xen Launches The Mirage Cloud OS
Sean Michael Kerner welcomes Mirage, the Xen project's bid to make a specialised cloud operating system
Bill Cramming – The Hidden Danger Of BYOD
Wayne Rash is enraged by the little extras in staff phone bills
Google And Facebook: Back Off Government, Snooping Is Our Business!
How can Facebook and Google tell the US government to limit surveillance, and then ask for more scope for snoop themselves, asks Tom Brewster
How The Government Supports Tech Startups
Lawyers Emma Cartwright and Douglas Badder give a thumbs-up to the Government's support for startups
IT Life: Looking For Answers
Security analyst Jonathan French likes to be solving problems
Amazon’s Drone Delivery Is An Air Traffic Control Nightmare
Pilot Wayne Rash shoots down Amazon's ambition to deliver goods by drone
Does Santa Have a Data Centre In A Box For You?
What's in the package under your Christmas tree? Peter Judge thinks it could be a modular data centre
Baddies Bash Bountiful Bitcoins
As the value of a Bitcoin increases, so does the scale of attacks on the currency, says Sean Michel Kerner
Check Point: Good Security Is About Discovering The Unknown
Gabi Reish from Check Point explains why traditional IT security solutions are becoming irrelevant
Banks Must Not Take The Internet For Granted
Banks and other bodies can be hit badly if their Internet service fails, warns Stephen Bonner
Sales Bonanza Creates A BYOD Nightmare
So-Called Black Friday sales mean IT departments will have random consumer kit to support, warns Wayne Rash
Do you Need RFID Protection For Your Physical Wallet?
Can thieves scan the RFID chips in your credit cards? Sean Michael Kerner has a tinfoil-lined wallet just in case
Cyber Monday: The Day Of The Marketing Tentacles
Cyber Monday sucks, and it's all a sign of the faltering creativity of marketers, who are getting ever more invasive, says Tom Brewster
IT Life: Changing the World One Whiteboard At A Time
Martin Large knows a bit about solving problems and selling things
Mozilla Revenues Grow, But So Does Dependency On Google
Mozilla's revenues have come a long way, but most of its income is from one source, says Sean Michael Kerner
Does Efficiency Make Any Difference At All?
Cheap efficient data centre just allow us all to consume more, warns Peter Judge
Smartphone Kill Switches Are No Use Till Thieves Know About Them
Apple has kill switches that work, but ill-informed thieves will still kill for an iPhone, says Wayne Rash
Putting Businesses On A Data Diet
Virtualisation has created a glut of duplicated data. Virtualised databases can trim the fat away, says Iain Chidgey
IT Life: From Modems To Data Security
Colin Tankard likes modems - and makes his living in data security
CA Expo: DevOps Still Top Of The Agenda
CEO Mike Gregoire says CA's fascination with rapid development practices is not going away
eBay’s Data Centre Innovation Won’t Stop With Fuel Cells
Fuel cells and recovered energy are nothing. eBay's Dean Nelson has more ideas up his sleeve
When Salesforce Connects Us All, Privacy Becomes Impossible
Tech companies are pursuing the hyper-connected dream, and we will follow, regardless of the massive impact it will have on our privacy and security, says Tom Brewster
Google And Facebook: Green Goals Clash With Libertarian Leanings
The Internet giants may be cleaning up their energy act, but Peter Judge asks how deep is their care for the planet
Samsung Looks To The Enterprise As The Smartphone Market Saturates
Samsung' wants to replace BlackBerry and be a major enterprise provider, Jae Shin and Andrew Mills tell TechWeekEurope
Big Data Strikes The Right Chord With Music Listeners
Mat Young explains the big data magic behind companies like Spotify and Shazam
DNS Vulnerability And The New Gunpowder Plotters
When groups like Anonymous go on the warpath, companies' DNS services are where they may strike first, warns Chris Marrison
How An Adobe Flaw Let Anonymous Into The FBI
Adobe users' passwords were stolen and the FBI got hit. Sean Michael Kerner smells password reuse
Linux Foundation: Open Source Tizen Is Alive And Well
The Linux Foundation's Brian Warner says Tizen 'scratches an itch' unaddressed by smartphone market
Tech Club: ‘The Threat Landscape Is Too Big – You Have To Pick Your Battles’
Sat Birdi, CEO at vzInternet, says we need to protect authenticity of online transactions in order to stop fraud