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Article | 25/03/2010 Dell aims new PowerEdge servers at the cloud

Dell hopes to grab a bigger slice of the cloud infrastructure market with a new line of PowerEdge servers that the company announced on Wednesday.

Article | 22/03/2010 Viridity's power management tool aims to boost efficiency

Startup Viridity Software is releasing a new tool on Monday to help companies keep track of the power being used by each piece of IT equipment in thei...

Article | 22/03/2010 Ex-MySQL chief Marten Mickos lands new CEO job

Marten Mickos, the longtime CEO of MySQL who eventually sold the open-source database company to Sun Microsystems for US$1 billion, has taken a new jo...

Article | 16/03/2010 Dell sues five LCD makers for alleged price-fixing

Dell has filed a lawsuit against five LCD makers that charges them with colluding to fix prices for products, a Dell spokesman said Monday.

Article | 10/03/2010 Sentilla's energy management tool gets chargeback feature

Sentilla has released an update to its data-center energy management tool, which lets IT and facilities staff track the energy usage of servers and ot...

Article | 8/03/2010 Group seeks to open source data-center design

A new industry group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers, which it says could accelerate the use ...

Article | 6/03/2010 Westin hotel in LA reports possible data breach

People who stayed at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites in Los Angeles last year and used their credit or debit card to eat there should keep a...

Article | 3/03/2010 Ballmer: We'll beat Google ... someday

It's not easy being Steve Ballmer. The Microsoft CEO was asked for the umpteenth time Tuesday if his company will ever be number one in search.

Article | 24/02/2010 HP's Singapore lab to develop cloud services platform

Hewlett-Packard has opened a research lab in Singapore, where it will work on a software platform for delivering cloud-based computing services to ent...

Article | 24/02/2010 Google hit with antitrust probe in Europe

Google is being investigated for possible anticompetitive behavior in Europe following complaints filed against it there by three competitors, Google ...

Article | 24/02/2010 Europe is said to launch antitrust probe of Google

Google has become the subject of a preliminary investigation by antitrust regulators in Europe following complaints by three of its rivals there, the ...

Article | 23/02/2010 Microsoft, Amazon strike patent licensing deal

Amazon.com has agreed to pay Microsoft an undisclosed sum as part of a patent cross-licensing deal between the companies announced on Monday.

Article | 19/02/2010 Google gets US approval to buy and sell energy

Google has received federal approval to buy and sell energy on the open market, giving it more options for the way it powers its data centers and open...

Article | 19/02/2010 HP profit climbs 28 percent as company raises outlook again

Hewlett-Packard's first-quarter profit increased by 28 percent from a year earlier as growth returned to some of its core businesses, prompting the co...

Article | 5/02/2010 Green Grid to release new data center efficiency tools

The Green Grid Consortium will release two free tools in the coming months to help companies measure and improve the energy efficiency of their data c...