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Dell feels the squeeze from economic downturn

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:24:00 GMT

But cuts help ease the pain.

The economic downturn has claimed another victim after Dell recorded falls in both profits and revenues, as the PC maker struggles to cope with the IT spending slowdown and less demand for its products.

Wyse benefits from virtualisation drive

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:27:00 GMT

And refreshes products line up.

The uptake of virtualisation in the enterprise, coupled with the economic downturn, is positively good for business, so says thin computing specialist Wyse Technology, which today announced a number of new product developments.

IBM to build computer based on human brain

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:29:00 GMT

Open the door, Hal.

Researchers at IBm are working on building a new computer platform that mimics the processing power of the human brain. The idea is to make it easier for PCs to process vast amounts of data in real time.

Microsoft and Novell put Silverlight on Linux

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:52:00 GMT

Dancing in the Moonlight

Microsoft and Novell have launched the beta version of Moonlight, which puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application technology on Linux. The companies have also released Advanced Management Pack for SuSE Linux Enterprise for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2.

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...

IBM to buy server consolidation company

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:28:00 GMT

Transitive joins the Big Blue fold.

Financial terms of the planned acquisition were not disclosed.

EU code set to clean up data centres

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:31:00 GMT

Best practices could reduce carbon emission.

The European Commission has launched a code of conduct for data centres, in an effort to tackle their increasing power consumption, and minimise the related environmental, economic and energy supply impacts.

Gartner shares data centre efficiency secrets

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:51:00 GMT

Not just load of hot air.

Power consumption at data centres is once again in the spotlight, after analyst house Gartner came up with a list of best practises in the data centre, designed to save electricity and improve cooling.

Canonical puts Ubuntu on ARM netbooks

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:27:00 GMT

Intel's Atom hit by fusion.

Intel's Atom netbook chip will have to scrap harder in future with the announcement by Canonical that it plans to port a version of Ubuntu Linux to run on ARM's small-computer chips.

Thinkgrid offers SME virtualisation on tap

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:42:00 GMT

Chuck PCs, buy virtual office instead.

Small businesses have not been using virtualisation as the complexity has proved to be too much for organisations with limited IT skills.

New Intel chip can be 'tuned' by users

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:37:00 GMT

Super-expensive Core i7 launched.

Intel has begun selling its high-end Core i7 desktop chips, offering a series of processors that are significantly more powerful than any of the company's current desktop chips.

New Citrix NetScaler chops data centre costs

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:58:00 GMT

Get SAP on the cheap.

Citrix is touting the ability of the new version of NetScaler to dramatically reduce data centre costs, as more and more businesses look to the cloud to deliver their enterprise applications.

Sun waves goodbye to 18 percent of workforce

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:35:00 GMT

Something for the weekend...pink slips.

Sun Microsystems has announced that it will lay off 15 percent to 18 percent of its workforce, as the company seeks to save $700 million to $800 million a year in costs. Sun also said that its top software executive is leaving the company.

Companies look to outsource data centres

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:26:00 GMT

Financial restraints mean organisations look to third parties.

The economic downturn has led to more UK companies looking to outsource their data centres, according to research from Sentrum. What's more, nearly a third of companies turning to outsourcing for at least part of their data centre infrastructures have done so in the past year.

Hosting company says London power shortage is a myth

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:42:00 GMT

There's power in them there streets

Greg McCulloch, managing director of Interxion, said that the company recently expanded its Brick Lane facility, close to the City of London and is currently assessing two more London locations.

He said that the company had had little problem in supplying power to its facilities. "We've actually got the reverse problem," he said. "We have more power than we can use." He...

AMD launches 'Shanghai' processor

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:57:00 GMT

Just in time for downturn.

AMD has launched its latest quad-core Opteron processor, codenamed Shanghai, as the chip maker looks to rebuild customer confidence following problems with its Barcelona chip earlier this year.

Online university opens to educate data centre techies

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:55:00 GMT

Back to school for newbie engineers.

APC Schneider Electric is set to open a 'Power University' next year to educate a new generation of engineers about the demands of working in data centres, and to tackle the increasingly high levels of power they consume.

Private cloud networks predicted for corporate IT

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:14:00 GMT

Outlook is cloudy.

Analyst house Gartner is predicting that the future of corporate IT is in private clouds, essentially flexible computing networks modelled after public providers such as Google and Amazon, yet built and managed internally for each business's users.

Microsoft upgrades software for small businesses

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:42:00 GMT

Bigger bundles for SMEs.

Microsoft has released an updated bundle of infrastructure servers for small business and its first-ever offering tailored to mid-sized businesses

Programmer cracks Windows 7 alpha

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:53:00 GMT

Hidden features revealed to the world

The utility's name is a nod to the background colour of card keys given to full-time Microsoft employees. According to Rivera's analysis, Windows 7 checks the user's allowed domain and username, then unlocks the features if it decides the user is a full-time worker. Microsoft is currently testing Windows 7 internally.

Novell looks to lure Red Hat users

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:14:00 GMT

Come and join the SuSE gang.

"Part of what Novell is seeing here is they think they can go after some of these customers with the value proposition they can offer," says Al Gillen, an analyst at IDC. "Frankly, they have made a lot of acquisitions to fill out their virtualisation and virtualisation management strategy. In fact, PlateSpin has been a really big one for them and arguably they have a good story to tell and they are sensing they can go and tell that story."

Data centre managers look for single view

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:15:00 GMT

Aperture looks for Vista to fit the bill.

The institute, which is funded by data centre specialist Aperture, found that under a third of all data centre professionals monitored more than 90 percent of their equipment while, rather alarmingly, 12 percent of those surveyed had no sort of monitoring system at all.

Tom Waun, Aperture's president said that managers who were failing to look at all the equipment were...

New system lets 11 users share single PC

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:21:00 GMT

If in doubt, virtualise it, says Ncomputing.

Ncomputing plans to announce a new version of its virtualisation device and software that turns a single desktop PC into 11 workstations, slashing the cost of computing for schools and businesses.

Servers to get Energy Star rating

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:28:00 GMT

EPA stickers on boxes by February.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the third draft of its Energy Star specification for servers and expects the final spec to be ready for use in February.

Cisco doubles speed of ASR 1000 router

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:26:00 GMT

Downturn can't stop high-speed boom.

Cisco Systems has announced that it is doubling the speed of its Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 1000 Series routers to 20Gbits/sec, only eight months after introducing the product line.