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AMD Wants Into The Cloud, Not Smartphones
AMD wants to have its processors in the heart of cloud-based data centres, and will be launching its own netbook platform - but will leave smartphones to the experts
ERP Software Vendor Makes “Eco” Tools
Management add-on helps measure the whole company's environmental impact - and comply with legislation
Salesforce.com Makes A Bundle
Salesforce.com has had a record quarter while all around is gloom. Could this be vindication for the cloud model?
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 Hanover for the show
NetBenefit Sees Demand For Green Hosting
Customers are increasingly demanding energy-efficient hosting, says managed service provider NetBenefit.
Google Adds Billing to App Engine
Google has added billing to its cloud computing platform, Google App Engine. The good news is users can go over the current free usage quotas - the bad news is that those free quotas are going to be reduced.
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 IDC. The one positive area is blade servers
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 official blog.
Communication barriers waste cash at SMBs
Communications barriers and latencies are costing cost small and medium businesses (SMBs) up to 40 percent of their productive time, averaging to more than £3000 per employee, according to a report.
“Disjointed” IT could delay recovery, says CMA
We need working broadband and 3G to get out of the recession, communications managers have warned
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 may face lawsuits over performance and data protection
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 twitter traffic from round the world reveals a major outage. That's a pain for millions of ordinary users - but it could be ...
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 Technology Services.
Recession Creates New IT Outsourcing Destinations
Global recession is producing new locations for oursourcing, according to research - but companies should appreciate the risks involved
“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 says is the iTunes of networking.
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 dual Intel Xeon processors with up to 48GB or RAM.
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 said.
Mobile World Congress: Summary of Day 2
Video: The agreement between Nokia and Qualcomm, the approach made by Nvidia to Android and the presentation of the new Vodafone device HTC Magic marked the second day of this event.
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 portable market, which drove sales for various leading manufacturers.
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 prioritise cost-cutting and efficiency projects.
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
Zmanda Cloud Backup : Open Source Disaster Recovery Solution
SMB data protection in the cloud is now available for small to medium-size businesses thanks to open source backup and recovery firm Zmanda.
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 have better information if they are going to clean up their act.
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 frenzy as vendors try to cash in. This time, we can't afford to fall for phony greenwash.
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 Martin Read.
Ghosts in the machine help E.ON cut server costs
The energy provider has consolidated its data centres across Europe amid rising power prices
IBM pushes for 21st century infrastructure
IBM has a set of new management functions and a "cloud czar", in a bid to provide the management and control that virtualised data centres and outsourced IT will require.
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 cloud announcements have substance, analysts say.
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 and scheduled for 2007.