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Nvidia to link Telsa graphics processors with the cloud

Nvidia have announced technologies that could make its upcoming Tesla graphics processors more accessible to cloud deployments in enterprises, while also reversing a trend of relegating highly parallel chips to specialised mathematics and scientific calculations.
Dell to acquire modernisation specialist Make Technologies

Dell plans to buy Make Technologies, which specialises in helping businesses replace outdated IT systems, its third enterprise-related acquisition announcement this week.
Dell to buy thin-client company Wyse Technology

Dell has signed an agreement to acquire thin-client hardware and software company Wyse Technology, to expand its desktop virtualisation offerings.
Via loses more ground in x86 chip market to Intel and AMD

While Intel and Advanced Micro Devices battle for the top two spots in the x86 microprocessor market, the third player, Via Technologies, saw a slip in its already-marginal market share, but it isn't ready to fold, research firm IDC announced last week.
School system adopts Windows 7 tablets over iPad

A U.S. school district on Thursday said it was handing students 2,000 Fujitsu tablets with the Windows 7 OS, and selected it over the iPad because of durability and security concerns.
HP releases thin clients for "power users" with AMD processors

Calling a thin client a device for power users may seem like an oxymoron, but Hewlett-Packard is giving it a try.
Wyse expands Z class thin client range to support more peripherals

Cloud client computing company Wyse Technology has made a new addition to its Z class thin client family, introduced last year, with a product that can support up to six external displays running high-load multimedia applications in a virtual desktop environment.
RSA and McAfee add security offerings for the cloud

Cloud security options are set to widen today as RSA teams with Microsoft and Citrix to support use of RSA SecurID authentication, and separately, McAfee unveils enhancements to the McAfee Cloud Security Platform.
VMworld conference sees bevy of new products from HP, Dell and EMC

While VMware had no shortage of new and updated products to debut at its VMworld conference, being held this week in Las Vegas, many VMware partners and competitors introduced their own offerings at the show as well.
AMD FirePro GPU designed for Windows desktop virtualisation

Advanced Micro Devices this week announced a FirePro graphics processor for businesses that can deliver Windows desktop sessions to remote client PCs through support for Microsoft's desktop virtualisation technology.

Latest Features

What's the fastest browser? Maybe you're measuring it wrong

Among all those very scientific benchmarks we forget one factor: the user. Our human eye is incapable of distinguishing the 221 ms load time of a JavaScript applet in IE9 from the 220 ms load time in Firefox 17. Do we even notice if Chrome opens a website in 778 ms versus IE's 953 ms? Humans think in seconds, not milliseconds.
The next frontier in virtualisation

Desktop virtualisation is becoming increasingly attractive to enterprises, particularly mid-sized businesses that have achieved significant data centre efficiency improvements through server virtualisation.
HP announcements and missed opportunities

HP's products unveiled recently range from an enhanced server line to a new range of thin clients to the first all-in-one workstation. What's missing is an HP corporate story along with what may be the major competitive opportunity. Let me explain.
Desktop virtualisation: How to succeed

If you've already virtualised the servers in your data centre, desktop virtualisation may seem like the next logical step. But businesses are finding that the benefits of hosted virtual desktop technologies are more nuanced. The advantages may be harder to quantify and harder to justify based purely on traditional ROI calculations.
Why IT departments need to learn to give up control

"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance," said Paul Simon. It's a lesson that IT needs to learn and, more important, act on.
Vendors fight it out over desktop virtualisation

There is so much competition for what computer companies perceive as a tremendous growth opportunity in desktop virtualisation that the leading virtual desktop vendors have taken to re-announcing packages and products to highlight small improvements and garner some attention.
Virtualised software: Confusion over licences

When Dataprise, an IT services company, helped a customer with a desktop virtualisation project last year, it found itself dealing with desktop virtualisation's dirty little secret: No one - including vendors - seems to know how to licence the software.
Inside Intel: A plan for desktop virtualisation

An interview with Intel's CIO, Diane Bryant, reveals a long-term strategy to put a virtual machine on every device.
Can virtual PCs save desktop Linux?

Linux on the desktop on a virtual PC could be a strong alternative to Microsoft with cost benefits.
What desktop virtualisation really means

Depending on whom you talk to, desktop virtualisation is either the hottest trend in IT or an expensive notion with limited appeal

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