Datacentre

Google Android On 20 Handsets This Year

Although Android is open-source, manufacturers will be able to sign distribution deals with Google in order to pre-install their phones…

15 years ago

IBM Luring Unix Customers Onto Linux Mainframes

IBM, which is seeing a continued resurgence in the mainframe space, is offering new migration services and financial incentives in…

15 years ago

Obama Declares IT A Strategic Asset

In a speech today, U.S. President Barack Obama pledged to treat the country's digital infrastructure as a strategic asset and…

15 years ago

Green IT Pressure Is Growing

CIOs may be more keen to save money than save the planet, but after this year's Copenhagen Forum the pressure…

15 years ago

EMC Admits To Rising Carbon Emissions

Despite action to improve its sustainability, the company says green house gas emissions are still rising

15 years ago

First Ever Intel Core i7 Laptop Launched

The Intel Core i7 processor will power a new laptop being offered by AVADirect. Expected benefits include triple-channel memory and…

15 years ago

Green IT Appetite Is Growing

Environmental responsibility is driving growing green IT spending, not cost savings, a survey says.

15 years ago

Server Virtualisation – Some Real Cost Savings

Server virtualisation promises to save space, costs and energy, but two UK local authorities have discovered there's more to achieving…

15 years ago

How to solve the eWaste issue

It's no good wringing our hands over eWaste. The answer is simple if we have the political will to outlaw…

15 years ago

Romania Issues €100 Million To Microsoft Without Bids

Contracts are drafted to exclude any alternatives and hand the money over to Redmond, say local activists

15 years ago

IBM Offers Government Stimulus Kit On Credit

Why wait for government cash for green projects when you get the technology right now and pay later, says IBM

15 years ago

Yahoo Would Sell To Microsoft For “Big Money”

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has suggested that she would sell Yahoo's search apparatus to Microsoft in exchange for a massive…

15 years ago

Server Shipments Down 25 Percent Year on Year

The global server market saw revenue and shipment declines across all major segments during the first quarter as enterprises delayed…

15 years ago

Intel’s Nehalem EX Server Chip Spells Doom For RISC?

... and it's not great news for Itanium either, as Intel announces a monster Nehalem multiprocessor chip

15 years ago

IT Consultant Extends Green Olympics Contract

Atos Origin has made much of its commitment to provide sustainable IT for the Olympics - a contract it will…

15 years ago

Blades, Storage Arrays To Get Efficiency Rating

Now that the first-tier specification for energy-efficient enterprise servers is completed, the US EPA is turning its focus to larger…

15 years ago

In The Euro Election, Vote For Free Software!

The open source movement wants to see government contracts open to proper competitive tendering. Let's see how that issue plays…

15 years ago

Carbon Reporting Model To Meet Future UK Laws

With the UK government about to impose mandatory carbon accounting, PwC has produced a reporting model which it says will…

15 years ago

Scotland Gets Europe’s Largest Wind Farm, and Smart Power Training

Engineers will take smart grids across Scotland thanks to a government backed Energy Academy

15 years ago

NHS Trust Leads Way With E-Patient Records Project

While the  £12.7 billion NHS upgrade scheme has yet to deliver,  one NHS Trust has gone ahead with its own…

15 years ago

IBM Solidly Behind SSD Servers

IBM is placing increased emphasis on the emerging solid-state server, storage, and software sector of the data centre

15 years ago

US Airforce Denies GPS Failure Reports

A US government report predicted that as old satellites begin to fail over the next few years, GPS coverage could…

15 years ago

Local Government Sets Green Computing Example

Local government is stealing a march on central government in its use of virtualisation to harness cost savings and power…

15 years ago

EC To Regulate State Aid For Next-Gen Broadband

Stimulus packages to build high-speed broadband must not fall foul of state aid rules, warned European commissioner Neelie Kroes

15 years ago

Storage Economics: When Data Meets Dough

If you think storage is cheap, you aren't doing your sums right. The big picture, with power, carbon, and legal…

15 years ago

Google Says No To Newspapers, Yes To Online News

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has said while his company is not interested in buying physical newspapers it could put…

15 years ago

Google Polishes Chrome Browser

Google has high hopes that Chrome's unique features will make it a suitable competitor to Microsoft Internet Explorer and other…

15 years ago

UK Government To Force IT Training At Suppliers

If you want government money, you'll have to show your IT  training plan, says skills secretary John Denham

15 years ago

Fault Tolerance (Re)Discovered

Fault tolerant virtualisation technologies can be hardware or software based but they don't necessarily offer the same level of protection…

15 years ago

Google Partners With US Utilities On PowerMeter

Google plans to expand the Google PowerMeter rollout later in 2009

15 years ago