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SMEs turning to virtualisation

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:05:00 GMT

Cost savings not just for the big boys.

More than 75 percent of 519 US IT professionals surveyed in October by King Research have already deployed virtualisation in one form and about 10 percent others intend to do so in the next year.

The survey, commissioned by systems management vendor Kace, shows that virtualisation isn't just for enterprise IT shops anymore, as more than half (55 percent) of companies...

Circuit City goes bankrupt

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:28:00 GMT

Famous US electronics chain in doo-doo.

Electronics retailer Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy protection in an effort to cut costs and turn around its deteriorating financial condition.

Siemens bails out of PC market

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:05:00 GMT

Fujitsu buys out German partner.

Fujitsu has agreed to acquire Siemens' stake in their European computer joint-venture, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, the two have announced.

Siemens bales out of PC market

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:05:00 GMT

Fujitsu buys out German partner.

Fujitsu has agreed to acquire Siemens' stake in their European computer joint-venture, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, the two have announced.

Samsung pulls plug on SanDisk buy

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:24:00 GMT

Toshiba seen hovering with intent.

Samsung has withdrawn its offer to acquire rival flash memory-maker SanDisk citing a lack of progress after six months of discussions between the two companies.

Credit crunch takes shine off Sun

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:40:00 GMT

Cracks in the sky.

Sun Microsystems has warned of a big loss for the first quarter of its 2009 fiscal year, issuing preliminary results that also showed revenue falling.

Twenty ways to trim IT costs

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:00 GMT

No 14. Defer moving to Vista.

Analyst house Gartner has come up a list of 20 areas where IT managers can trim their expenses, as organisations look to tighten their belts during these tough economic times.

IT predicted to beat recession

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:47:00 GMT

Coming downturn not as bad as dot-com bust.

Economic uncertainty will hit IT budgets in 2009, according to Gartner, but the industry won't experience the extreme cuts it suffered in 2001 after the dot-com bust.

Brocade's Foundry buy rescued by £600 million loan

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:45:00 GMT

But others take a hell of a beating.

Brocade has secured a $1.1 billion (£600 million) loan to fund its acquisition of Foundry Networks despite a tightening of credit markets.

IT industry will buck downturn, say analysts

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:25:00 GMT

The future is meaner, greener and more virtual.

Despite the turmoil in the financial markets, consulting firms Gartner and Forrester Research have forecast that IT spending will fare better than the economy as a whole and continue to grow on a year-to-year basis.

SMBs predicted to embrace hosted security

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:58:00 GMT

But market still in infancy, says IDC.

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is set to grow into one of the most important ways for SMBs to buy security technology, an IDC report has predicted.

Lenovo teams up with EMC to offer unlimited backup

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:28:00 GMT

Providing you speak English.

Lenovo and EMC have announced an effort to free small businesses from the hassles of data backup by offering an unlimited Mozy storage service for Lenovo's SL series laptops.

Steve Jobs' death announced in news cock-up

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:03:00 GMT

Obituary hastily removed.

The Bloomberg financial news service Wednesday posted a revised obituary of Apple CEO Steve Jobs by accident on its wire service, but quickly retracted it.

US IT spending points downwards

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:15:00 GMT

The technology crunch.

US companies are pulling back hard on IT spending as the economic downturn continues, a new study by ChangeWave Research has found.

Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 ready for release

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:19:00 GMT

Cougar sighting set for November.

Microsoft has completed development on Small Business Server 2008 and said the product will ship on its target date of 12 November.

Intel promises laptop graphics boost

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:45:00 GMT

Calpella platform will chop bottlenecks.

The company's next mobile platform, code-named Calpella, will be released in 2009. It is a follow-up to Intel's Centrino 2 mobile platform released last month, Intel officials said at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

Calpella will include chips based on Intel's upcoming Nehalem microarchitecture, which is expected to reach consumers in the second half of...

UK outfit woos SMEs with servers direct

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:20:00 GMT

Online-only vendor sets out to beat VARs.

It’s a far cry from Amazon, but an emerging Yorkshire-based company claims to be breaking new ground in online SME sales.

SolarWinds simplifies large network monitoring

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:02:00 GMT

Putting it all on one screen.

Network management software company SolarWinds on Tuesday updated its flagship Orion software, with a focus on making it easier to monitor large or geographically distributed networks.

WildPackets takes aim at 10Gig networks

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:10:00 GMT

Complex networks becoming mainstream?

WildPackets this week introduced a highly extensible data recorder for 10 Gigabit (10Gig) Ethernet networks, the latest sign that 10Gig networks are gaining wider acceptance, even among medium-sized businesses.

Endeavors offers free application streaming

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Another way to simplify software infrastructure.

Endeavors Technologies has taken a step toward commoditising the emerging technology of application streaming with a free, fully functional version of its Application Jukebox product.

Amsterdam switches on Europe's first mobile WiMax network

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:10:00 GMT

Meanwhile, the UK waits... and waits.

Dutch broadband start-up Worldmax on Tuesday demonstrated what it said is Europe's first mobile WiMax network, built by Alcatel-Lucent over the past five months and set to go fully online at the end of this summer.

Nortel goes open source for unified comms

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:05:00 GMT

Offers SMBs a SIP of what the big boys are drinking.

Telephony has at last become an IT product, claimed Nortel as it announced SCS500, an open source-based unified communications suite for small and mid-sized businesses.

Free event-based email system launched

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Avoid that pesky spam folder.

An entrepreneur, frustrated at the inability of event-based email to produce any decent record of delivery, has developed what he calls "an enterprise-grade event-based email system" called TriggerMail.

Buffalo announces NAS for the masses

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:18:00 GMT

Rack to the future.

Buffalo Technology has become the latest vendor to take rack-mounted NAS (Network-attached storage) to the masses, announcing a new server series, the TeraStation Pro II Rackmount.

Small businesses feel uneasy with the Internet

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:30:00 GMT

It's a love/hate thing.

Only 16 percent of British small business managers think that the Internet has increased their operational efficiency, while nearly half think that it has made running their businesses more complex. That's according to s study carrried out by the Cranfield School of Management on behalf of Pipex Business.