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US department of energy to cool exascale HPC with local weather
In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the US Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab has begun building a new computing centre that will one day house exascale systems.
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Google developing heads-up display glasses: rumour
Google is rumoured to be developing a pair of sci-fi-style heads-up display glasses, which can overlay information onto the wearer's field of vision for hands-free augmented reality.
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IBM helps build vertical mega data centre in India
IBM has designed and helped to build a 900,000-square-foot data centre in India that it says is the largest in that country in terms of size and power. It is among the largest in the world.
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Red Hat launches Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services
Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services, which aims to take advantage of Amazon's cloud while offering excellent performance.
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Amazon cuts price of S3 cloud storage
Amazon Web Services has cut the cost of storing data using its Simple Storage Service (S3), saving users with 50 TB stored on the service around 12 percent on their monthly bill, the company said.
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EMC plans VMware integration for VFCache storage
EMC has big plans this year for the VFCache flash storage it introduced on Monday, with the coming enhancements including SSDs, 1TB cards, integration with VMware and less expensive MLC flash media.
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Symantec announces new NetBackup and BackupExec
Symantec announced new versions of its flagship backup applications for SMBs and the enterprise adding more support for virtual machines, a cloud storage offering and integration of snapshot and backup management.
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Malware hijacks file host SendSpace to steal information
Trend Micro researchers have discovered a piece of malicious software that automatically uploads its stolen data cache to the SendSpace file-sharing service for retrieval.
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British IT companies attracting strong private equity investment
Technology, media and telecoms (TMT) firms are among the fastest growing private equity-backed businesses in the UK, with 26 sector companies featuring in the latest Sunday Times Deloitte Buyout Track 100.
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Cloudyn launching hosted service to monitor and optimise AWS usage
Cloudyn is launching a hosted service on Monday that aims to monitor a company's cloud usage and recommend ways to optimise that usage in order to cut costs.




