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Equinix offers online market for data centre services

Equinix has launched an online marketplace for its data centre customers, to make it easier for them to buy and sell network, managed hosting and other services among themselves.
Oracle seeks fast profit from Sun

Oracle on Wednesday tried to answer the question that has vexed much of the technology industry since it announced its acquisition of Sun Microsystems last April: How will Oracle make the ailing systems and software vendor a profitable part of its business?
Citrix CEO hails 'free' apps as way forward

Citrix's decision to give many of its important applications away for free makes sense in an era where business technology is becoming increasingly 'consumerised', company CEO Mark Templeton has said at his company's showcase iForum event in Edinburgh.
Sun tries again with cloud services

Sun is making a fresh push into the cloud services market, starting with hosted computing and storage services that it will offer to developers later this year.
Thinkgrid offers SME virtualisation on tap

Small businesses have not been using virtualisation as the complexity has proved to be too much for organisations with limited IT skills.
Uncertainty surrounds final positioning of Live Mesh

Microsoft's Live Mesh may be poised to emerge as a cloud-based development environment at the company's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October.
DataSynapse launches datacentre management tool

DataSynapse has launched FabricServer 2.5, which it described as "an enabling platform for achieving real-time infrastructure."
Sun's grid crosses the pond

Sun Microsystems is expanding its Network.com utility computing service from the US to 23 countries in Asia and Europe, including the UK.
Red Hat shows off Enterprise Linux 5
IBM moves Opterons into data centres

AMD's 64-bit chip gets another boost.

Latest Features

How cloud computing speeds password hacking

On-demand cloud computing is a wonderful tool for companies that need some computing capacity for a short time, but don't want to invest in fixed capital for long term. For the same reasons, cloud computing can be very useful to hackers. A lot of hacking activities involve cracking passwords, keys or other forms of brute force that are computationally expensive but highly parallelisable.
Private cloud builders need to prepare for problems

When cloud computing became a topic of discussion a few years ago, public clouds received the bulk of the attention, mostly due to the high profile nature of public cloud announcements from some of the industry's biggest names, including Google and Amazon. But now that the talk has turned into implementation, some IT shops have begun steering away from public clouds because of the security risks. Data is outside the corporate firewall and is basically out of their control.
Supercomputing in the cloud ready for take off

Some companies are slashing costs and improving production by using on-demand high-performance computing services.
Top five ways for VMware to beat Microsoft

With 170,000 customers, including every member of the Fortune 100, you might think VMware's toughest task is stocking enough paper to print up new customer contracts. But the industry's biggest x86 virtualisation vendor is facing a strong challenge from Microsoft, which is enticing IT executives with Hyper-V, an alternative that may not be quite as sophisticated as VMware but is less expensive.
Software-as-a-service now on menu of large companies

Although some would trace back the roots of software as a service to mainframe timesharing, what we would now call SaaS, or on-demand computing, is really experiencing its second coming.
The green computing backlash grows

IT executives are dealing with far too many headaches to let themselves be led on an environmental guilt trip.
Ten virtualisation companies to watch

These technology innovators promise products that boost performance, make management easier or otherwise enhance your virtualisation experience.
Utility pricing

Vendors would have you believe that utility computing is on the horizon and that it'll work just like water or electricity. Baloney.
The virtues of virtualisation

Virtualisation is set to deliver almost as much change as computing did -- not just in IT infrastructures but also in the enterprise. You will be affected.
Linux starts to take a more central IT role

IT managers are now running key applications and databases on Linux-based systems as open-source software penetrates deeper into corporates.

How-tos

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Case Study: Why I'll steer clear of on-demand computing

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