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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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Data destruction - The in-depth guide

A key part of any information security strategy is disposing of data once it's no longer needed. Failure to do so can lead to serious breaches of data-protection and privacy policies, compliance problems and added costs.
How to protect intellectual property in the cloud

IT professionals know that handing data over to a third-party is always risky, but cloud computing creates unique concerns for IP. Here are nine tips to protect critical corporate data wherever it goes
Protecting your organisation's intellectual property

Global healthcare provider Best Doctors employs the most robust technologies and practices available to protect the privacy of its members' personal data - but that's just a part of doing business in this industry. Less obvious but equally important is the degree of vigilance with which the company protects its brand name, which is trademarked in dozens of countries worldwide.
Help beta-test DropBox and get 5GB of extra storage free

A free account from beloved file-sharing and -storage service Dropbox nets you 2GB of space. Want to boost that to 7GB? You can, and it won't cost you a dime extra.
Smartphones in a sub-zero Environment: Can yours stand the cold?

Some smart phone manufacturers don't allow their devices to be used in cold weather while others guarantee smooth functioning even in -20 degrees Celsius (-3? Fahrenheit).
Top Windows 8 features IT admins should be aware of

Upgrades, system migration, support headaches; IT folks are probably dreading the next major Windows roll-out. Yet Windows 8, which is scheduled to move to the beta stage in late February and will likely launch in the autumn, does offer several compelling new features for both IT and end users.
The new world of WAN optimisation

In yet another sign that growing revenues are reshaping the vendor outlook in the network management sector, Gartner recently named vendor Silver Peak one of the leaders in its magic quadrant for the WAN optimisation market.
Why Big Data means a big year for Hadoop

Companies from IBM to Amazon are turning to Hadoop to manage the surge in data that needs storing. Our CEO Michael Friedenberg says the buzz around Hadoop is no joke.
A first look at Windows 8 - the OS for everything

The first public beta for Windows 8 is expected to be released in February, but we've been testing pre-beta code in our lab. Our overall impression is that Windows 8 represents an aggressive effort by Microsoft to deliver a single OS that runs just about everywhere and takes on all of Microsoft's key rivals.
Four ways to beat data bloat

It is estimated that unstructured data - everything from email to spreadsheets, documents and digital media - accounts for at least 90% of an organisation's data. You systems are bloated with everything from personal iTunes playlists to the early versions of that PowerPoint presentation you delivered in March. To make matters worse, analysts at Gartner and IDC predict that data growth in IT organisations will grow by as much as 800% in the next five years.

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