Cap and trade rules will drive companies away from more efficient IT, says Dan Lowe of hosting company UKSolutions
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Cap and trade rules will drive companies away from more efficient IT, says Dan Lowe of hosting company UKSolutions
Mergers and acquisitions in the tech industry are set to reawaken in 2010 after experiencing a six-year low in 2009
Updated: In an effort in kick-start IT spending, networking giant Cisco is offering a three year, zero-percent financing deal for businesses in Europe and the US
Red Hat reported financial results for its fiscal year 2010 third quarter, showing revenues up 18 percent
Stratus is so confident in its ftServer 6300, that it has pledged to pay $50,000 for any customer that experiences unexpected downtime
Cisco continues to chase the SMB sector after expanding its small business portfolio with new networking, security and collaboration solutions
Traditional economics failed to predict the credit crunch - but supercomputers might stand a better chance, according to the EU
The EC is likely to make a formal objection to Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, because of the inclusion of the open source MySQL database, say newspaper reports
New company still doesn't have a CEO or a headquarters, but this shouldn't worry a virtualisation expert
New data centres are more efficient than their predecessors, but they have to be reliable too. Peter Judge asks - what happens when the need for reliability clashes with the demand for efficiency?
Financial services companies still face several "business killers" from ineffective use of IT according to analyst Gartner
Nick Leeson said poor IT practice helped bring down Barings Bank, and faced criticism from Microsoft security advisor and former FBI agent Gibson
Cloud computing could be the way to address the security skills crisis, if providers can provide the right contractual guarantees, according to industry bodies in IT security
Apple reports strong fiscal fourth-quarter results based on increased Mac and iPhone sales, although its iPod sales declined from the same quarter in 2008
Gartner analysts say the IT industry will follow up its worst year ever by seeing a 3.3 percent increase in spending in 2010
The man in charge of IBM's $20 billion a year hardware business has been arrested over an insider trading scheme that illegally netted $25 million
Software licences are a fiction, and open source is ready for use by every consumer, says Jeremy Ruston, BT's head of open source innovation.
A husband and wife were arrested by US federal authorities for running a fraud that cost Cisco more than $23 million in replacement parts
IT professionals are being judged by efficiency, not results - and they need to understand the best way to get that, according to an eWEEK Europe guide
Is the recession cutting demand for data centre space? Not according to analyst Nick Mayes of PAC Consulting.
For IT managers who must pay attention to both virtual and physical resources, the Cisco UCS system is well worth considering
Using BlackBerry devices with RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server can offer benefits from improved productivity to better regulatory compliance
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams confirmed the microblogging service closed a funding round from Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital and Benchmark Capital
Never mind security and cost. There's one question around cloud computing that could be a show-stopper, says Peter Judge. Do cloud services comply with regulations, and can you safely use them?
NetSuite customers with iPhones can now get their ERP data on the go, thanks to an application with the company's SaaS suite
While some commentators dismiss cloud computing for security and regulatory reasons, other viewpoints are emerging at a virtual summit
Deployment tool comes out early to help keen administrators - or encourage those who aren't so sure?
eBay's massive data centre in Utah gets a new hand on the green tiller
Nokia, IBM and SAP emerge as green leaders in the technology industry according to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, while AMD, TCS and BEA lose out
Red Hat can't match Microsoft or Oracle's marketing budgets, but the open source paradigm gives it an advantage in the long term, chief executive Jim Whitehurst told eWEEK Europe