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  • Computing fossils: Old tech that's still plugging along

    Consider the abacus. Developed perhaps as long as 4,500 years ago, this handy gadget served the mathematical needs of merchants and accountants until the development of mechanical calculating machines in the 19th century. But the abacus hasn't been forgotten. Instead it still lives on in niches - for instance teaching preschoolers the basics of counting.

  • Can Fibre Channel survive Ethernet's assault?

    Expensive and specialised Fibre Channel SANs have been under assault as companies consolidate data traffic over Ethernet. With Fibre Channel disks already largely eliminated from the market by SAS, can networking gear be far behind?

  • Securing your hybrid cloud

    The debate over public cloud versus private cloud continues to rage within the IT industry. As most organisations take an ad-hoc, evolutionary approach to new technologies, the environment over the next five years is likely to be a mixture of the two.

  • OpenStack may be gaining support from IBM but Iaas is still making slow headway

    When it comes to Infrastructure as a Service - renting on-demand compute, storage and network resources that live in a multi-tenant virtualised public cloud - midsized businesses are jumping in with both feet. But large enterprises with their own well-established data centres are still dipping their toes in the water.

  • The 10 most powerful IaaS companies in the world

    We assembled this list with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, Enterprise Strategy Group, Gartner, IDC and Neovise who watch the public cloud Infrastructure as a Service scene very closely. The services in this list include Amazon Web Services, Bluelock, CSC, GoGrid, IBM, OpenStack, Backspace, Savvis, Terremark and VMWare.

  • Azul CTO: Java is not the new Cobol

    Java is the most successful development platform of all time, and is currently used by more than 17 percent of developers. However there is concern within the developer community that the Java platform is ageing, with some suggesting that Java could become the next Cobol.

  • IBM CIO Jeanette Horan discusses BYOD strategy at Big Blue

    IBM CIO Jeanette Horan has plenty of IT projects and systems to worry about, but perhaps one of the most pressing and timely is Big Blue's ongoing BYOD (bring your own device) rollout, which is aimed at including all of the company's 440,000 employees over time.

  • Cobol on the mainframe: Does it have a future?

    David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which goes back to the early days of Cobol in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.

  • Old rules no longer apply in the fight for IT spending

    The lines which once marked the boundaries between providers of software, hardware, services and business advice have all but disappeared.

  • What does Big Data mean? Term causes concern and confusion

    A new study suggests many organisations are concerned about managing big data, but most don't have a clear understanding of what Big Data means. Log management solutions can help organisations make sense of some of the data they're generating, but many resort to syslogs, spreadsheets or nothing at all.





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