Datacentre

Recession Drives Green IT Into Data Centres

Despite squeezed budgets, green IT is changing tech buying behaviour and data centre structures.

15 years ago

Northumbria University Gets Wyse to Sustainable IT

A major new deployment of energy efficient thin client computers complements campus green-building design features as part of an environmental…

15 years ago

Phones4U Cuts Energy With Fujitsu Primergy

A new BladeFrame-based data centre infrastructure will allow the mobile phone retailer to cut costs and support new growth

15 years ago

Canonical Puts Ubuntu Enterprise Services Into The Cloud

Canonical, the founder of the Ubuntu Linux project, has launched new professional services to help and support users building private…

15 years ago

Cisco Pushes Beyond Traditional Roots To Challenge HP, IBM

Cisco chief John Chambers has pointed to new sectors it will either enter or grow in, bringing it into even…

15 years ago

Researcher Discovers Theft Of 88,000 FTP Credentials

A Trojan which stole 88,000 FTP credentials may have been in action for more than two years, say researchers

15 years ago

Globalisation Poses Urgent Questions

ICT professionals tend to view globalisation as an inevitable and positive force for change. But, asks Simon Perry, what sort…

15 years ago

Report Sees Big Growth Future for SaaS Security

A report from research firm Infonetics predicts software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the future of managed network security.

15 years ago

Oracle Deal DOJ Delays Simply an “Irritation” for Sun

The US Federal government has decided to spend more time performing due diligence on the proposed Oracle-Sun merger, while Java…

15 years ago

Apple Confirms Jobs Goes Back to Work

Apple chief Steve Jobs has returned to work after a six-month medical leave that involved a liver transplant, a company…

15 years ago

Microsoft To Open Green Cloud Dublin, Chicago Data Centres

Microsoft plans to roll out two new data centres in Dublin and Chicago in July, preparing for increased demand for…

15 years ago

SMBs Will Be The Dominant Market In The Cloud, Says Parallels

Head of automation and virtualisation software company, Parallels is betting big on the cloud. But Serguei Beloussov says operating system…

15 years ago

Microsoft Moves Into Energy Metering

New online application beta aims to help US consumers track, understand and reduce home energy usage.

15 years ago

Sun Ray Users Get More Options With RingCube Desktop Virtualisation

Sun Microsystems and RingCube are joining forces to offer Sun Ray users more options when deploying a desktop virtualisation environment.

15 years ago

Gartner Predicts PC Shipment Growth Upturn in Fourth Quarter

Gartner's latest assessment of worldwide PC shipments expects the PC market to post positive growth in the fourth quarter, and…

15 years ago

Tory Paper Demands Government Give Back Our Data

A new Conservative think tank report is calling for citizen-centric, open source IT development to put an end to wasteful,…

15 years ago

EMC, Net App Battle for Storage Vendor, Data Domain Hots Up

UPDATED: EMC extends its all-cash offer of $1.8 billion to purchase all outstanding shares of Data Domain to rivel NetApp's…

15 years ago

Customers Get Better Support From Apple Than Dell and HP

Apple customers were more satisfied with the outcome of tech-support calls than HP or Dell customers, according to a study…

15 years ago

Europe’s New Broadband Won’t Be A Telco Monopoly, Warns Reding

Europe needs fast broadband to compete, but the EC will not allow telcos to take advantage and establish monopolies, said…

15 years ago

UK Public Sector Asks for £1 Billion For Radical IT Change

Central Government money could get a quick payback and help meet carbon targets projects by overhauling local IT, says SOCITM

15 years ago

US To Spend £2bn On Smart Grid Technology

The US Department of Energy is ready to spend $3.9 billion (£2.4bn) on efforts to modernise the U.S. electric grid

15 years ago

Microsoft Taking No Chances, Cuts Price Of Windows 7

Microsoft plans price cuts, free upgrades and other incentives to spread Windows 7 to as many users as possible once…

15 years ago

Disaster Recovery The Achilles Heel Of Virtualisation

Many companies are not able to deploy separate backup data centre locations to provide the complete data-recovery system, relying instead…

15 years ago

IBM Helps Cities Get Smarter, Greener

The tech giant has been outlining its vision for making cities more energy efficient at a conference in Berlin

15 years ago

US Announces Plans For Cyber Command

Plans for the Cyber Command come a month after President Obama declared cyber-security a "national security priority" in a speech

15 years ago

Dell Achieves EPA Green Server Status

Dell officials are announcing that two of its PowerEdge server platforms, the R610 and R710, now meet the requirements needed…

15 years ago

Organisations Realising Real Savings From Virtualisation

The most recent example: San Francisco-based IT services provider BEAR Data Systems, has revealed that its hardware and virtualisation tools…

15 years ago

Mobile Data Centres Could Be Runaway Success

An IDC analyst says that interest in the mobile data centres is high, but the global recession is holding down…

15 years ago

Smart Grid Firm EnerNOC Buys Into Carbon Reporting

EnerNOC expects to use carbon accounting firm eQuilibrium to establish a lead role when companies have to meet greenhouse gas…

15 years ago

Companies Cut IT Costs, Improve Efficiencies

While the economy has forced substantial cost-cutting, investment in areas such as virtualisation and cloud computing will increase

15 years ago