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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expects to introduce its first Energy Star rating for servers by the end of the year, although a more comprehensive system that measures actual workloads will take longer to develop.

Japan's Self Defense Force lost sensitive data pertaining to a joint US-Japan military exercise last year, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.

Dell is releasing an I/O virtualization tool for its blade servers, making it easier for IT managers to install new blades and swap out servers.

Sony Australia has announced significant price drops for its two internal desktop Blu-ray drives; the BWU200S and BDUX10S. The new suggested retail price for the BWU200S is $599 (incl. GST), which is 30% cheaper than its previous asking price of $899. The RRP of the BDUX10S has dropped from $299 to $249 (incl. GST), a saving of $50. The new pricing for both products is effective as of yesterday (16 June 2008).

Hired by Marvel Entertainment to help bring a 9-foot-tall gamma-powered superhero to life on the big screen, officials at the Soho VFX special effects facility needed massive storage availability to help its artists create digitally-rendered fight scenes for the film, The Incredible Hulk, which opens Friday in US theaters.

It may look like Windows Vista. It shares the same code base as Vista. It even rolls in Vista's first Service Pack. But in terms of customer adoption plans, Windows Server 2008 is no Vista.

Windows Vista has been slow to catch on in business. Could Windows Server 2008 ride to the rescue? The new server operating system shares the same code base as Windows Vista and includes some features that are optimized to work with Vista.

The Ontario Cancer Institute in Canada has deployed what it's calling Canada's fastest research supercomputer to help discover more effective cancer treatments.

The little USB stick on your keychain and the memory in your iPod is fueling a revolution in the enterprise storage world.

As storage capacities continue to climb skyward, the retail price of internal and external hard disk drives has plummeted in the opposite direction. This is good news for consumers, who can now save up to 50 per cent on the original price of some 1TB drives. Below we have collected six of the best 1TB hard drives currently on the market; along with the minimum amount of money you'll save (based on the original price point).

When Apple released its Time Machine backup tool in Mac OS X 10.5 last year, many hailed its convenience and simplicity. But your Windows PC comes with all of Time Machine's slick backup tricks built-in.

There are two types of businesses: those which have experienced the gut-wrenching loss of valuable computer data, and those which will.