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Debian 5.0 Lenny: Good For Servers

Named for a Toy Story character, the new Debian is a serious contender for open source server deployments

15 years ago

CeBIT 2009 Will Tackle Green IT Agenda

Boxed server rooms and low-energy laptops will be on show - if your carbon footprint allows you to travel to…

15 years ago

NetBenefit Sees Demand For Green Hosting

Customers are increasingly demanding energy-efficient hosting, says managed service provider NetBenefit.

15 years ago

IBM, HP Server Sales Hit By Recession

Quarterly server revenue has shrunk at IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sun Microsystems, as the global economy slows down, according to…

15 years ago

Google outage was due to “overload”

A two hour blackout of Google mail was blamed on "data centre overload" and new code bugs, by the company's…

15 years ago

“Disjointed” IT could delay recovery, says CMA

We need working broadband and 3G to get out of the recession, communications managers have warned

15 years ago

Cloud services ‘pose legal risks’

Outages are only part of the problem for services on the web, says a City Law firm, warning cloud customers…

15 years ago

Gmail Failure: Reality Bites for Cloud Computing

Update: Gmail is back, after a two-hour outage. The company has not yet said how many people were affected, but…

15 years ago

Birmingham Gets Pay-Per-Month Disaster Recovery

The Midlands now has a cloud computing data centre, which lets local companies grow without huge IT investments, says ADA…

15 years ago

“iTunes Of IP” Eases Address Management

Managing IP addresses on an enterprise network could be easier thanks to a new module, which network appliance maker Infoblox…

15 years ago

UK’s VeryPC Launches 12TB Storage Server

UK-based low-energy system maker VeryPC has announced new models, including a storage processor with up to 12TB of storage and…

15 years ago

Experts Say Dump The NAC Word

Network access control is a useless marketing buzzword; users and vendors should just get on with security management, experts have…

15 years ago

Mini-Notebooks Power 2008 PC Growth

Figures just released for PC shipments in Q4 2008 reveal the big inroads made by mini-notebooks into the Western European…

15 years ago

UK Companies Streamline 2009 IT Expenditure

The first results of an annual IDC survey reveal that UK enterprises are approaching 2009 IT budgets with caution and…

15 years ago

Green Ethernet Standard to Unleash Marketing Blitz

A standard for energy-efficient Ethernet, due in 2010, will unleash a barrage of green marketing, promising savings for IT managers

15 years ago

What Will It Take To Make IT Go Green?

Whether they act to stave off a global crisis, or a meltdown in their own budgets, IT professionals need to…

15 years ago

Can Sustainable IT Avoid False Accounting?

Now the word is out: there is money to be made in sustainable IT, we can expect the usual feeding…

15 years ago

UK Government to cut IT budget by billions

The UK government will slash its IT spending, in a bid for greater standardisation and simplification, according to Treasury advisor…

15 years ago

Ghosts in the machine help E.ON cut server costs

The energy provider has consolidated its data centres across Europe amid rising power prices

15 years ago

IBM’s Cloud Announcements – Not Just Fluff

System management announcements can be vague; stir in the cloud and you have a recipe for complete incoherence. But IBM's…

15 years ago

Intel Delays ‘Tukwila’ Chip Again

Intel has delayed the four-core "Tukwila" `version of its Itanium processor, originally billed as the first 2 billion transistor chip…

15 years ago

Intel Plans Eight-Core Nehalem and Smarter SOCs

Intel will give details of a 2.3 billion transistor, eight core processor, and smarter system-on-chip (SOC) modules that include wireless…

15 years ago

Citrix: the Virtual Route to Sustainable IT

Sustainable IT departments will have to weather some big changes. One of the largest is the move to virtual servers.…

15 years ago

New Citrix XenDesktop Release Enhances Desktop Virtualization, User Experience

The new release of Citrix's XenDesktop product aims to make desktop virtualization cheaper and friendlier for office workers, by increasing…

15 years ago

Sun Enhancements to OpenSolaris Take Aim at Linux

Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris 2008.11 includes improvements around software package management and incorporating community packaging efforts. The updates to the free…

15 years ago

IBM Building Next Generation of BlueGene Supercomputers

IBM and the U. S Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have signed a new contract to build the…

15 years ago

Next Windows 7 Milestone: Release Candidate

How ready is Windows 7? Ready enough so there will be no Beta 2. Microsoft plans to go directly from…

15 years ago

CIRBA Virtual Machine Capacity Planning Tool Gets Upgrade0

CIRBA announced Version 5.1 of its virtualization capacity management tool on the 28th January, 2009. I'll be reviewing CIRBA 5.1,…

15 years ago

Panasonic Toughbook Laptops Undergo Makeover, Gain Intel Technology

Panasonic is adding new features and functionality to its line of rugged Toughbook laptops, designed for use in more strenuous…

15 years ago

Layoffs to Continue at IBM, Sources Say

IBM has laid off some 2,800 employees, with more to come, according to the Alliance@IBM organisation. Big Blue has had…

15 years ago