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Article | 9/02/2012 In pictures: The world's coolest datacentres
Data centres need to be secure, temperature controlled, spacious, redundant, reliable – nothing sexy. But that doesn't mean they can't be. Here are a ...
Article | 12/12/2011 Microsoft and HP to collaborate on public and private cloud services
HP and Microsoft have announced a new four-year partnership to deliver public, private and hybrid cloud solutions built around Microsoft Office 365 an...
Article | 1/12/2011 Top tech Christmas gifts under $200
Deciding what to buy friends and loved ones gifts for Christmas is never easy, but there are plenty of little gizmos to choose from if they are techni...
Article | 2/11/2011 Seagate Barracuda One brings 1TB per platter, lots of under-the-hood improvements
Seagate today announced its new desktop hard drive range: Barracuda One. The Barracuda One range features drives with an aerial density of up to 1TB p...
Article | 18/09/2008 Security challenges cloud virtualization payoff
Virtualization and cloud computing will help companies accomplish more by breaking the physical bonds of an IT infrastructure and its users, executive...
Article | 3/08/2011 Toshiba intros 1-terabyte hard disk drive for laptops
Toshiba enters the nascent 1-terabyte laptop hard drive market with the company's first 2.5-inch 1TB HDD, the MQ01ABD. The drive has an industry-stand...
Article | 21/07/2011 Apple's Australian prices for new MacBook Air, new Mac Mini, and new Thunderbolt Display announced
Last night, the online Australian Apple Store mysteriously disappeared... and when it returned, it was packed to the brim with new toys. There's a new...
Article | 21/07/2011 The ultimate Mac OS X Lion news and reviews round-up
OS X Lion is out in Australia, and it comes as standard on all Macs from now on. It's a cheap upgrade for anyone with a pre-existing copy of OS X Snow...
Article | 12/07/2011 JP Morgan supercomputer offers risk analysis in near real-time
JP Morgan is now able to run risk analysis and price its global credit portfolio in near real-time after implementing application-led, High Performanc...
Article | 13/07/2011 CIOs see promise in public Cloud storage
Three quarters of companies are either currently using or plan to use public cloud storage offerings. What's more, all organizations with more than 50...
Article | 12/07/2011 Meet IBM's new $75,000 mainframe
IBM never talks about the cost of its high-end mainframes, but when it comes to its low-end mainframe, price is a major focal point.
Article | 13/07/2011 It takes 1m ARM processors to make 1b brain neurons
A group of British researchers led by the daddy of the ARM processor, normally found in smartphones, went to find out how many how many neurons can an...
Article | 9/07/2011 Asia group launches cloud index, 'cloud map'
Asia's cloud computing industry group recently unveiled two initiatives that can help guide organisations in the region as they consider adopting clou...
Article | 11/07/2011 F5 releases two new storage virtualization appliances
F5 Networks today announced the release of two new file virtualization appliances, an entry-level offering and a midrange product that features 10-Gig...
Article | 30/06/2011 IBM announces computer memory breakthrough
IBM Thursday announced a breakthrough in computer memory technology, which may lead to the development of solid-state chips that can store as much dat...
Article | 1/07/2011 Samsung doubles speed of microSD card for smartphones
Samsung Electronics today announced that it is manufacturing a high-performance microSD card with twice the data transfer speeds as its previous gener...
Article | 30/06/2011 Impersonator, a different kind of virtualization
One thing we all have is lots of old software, and we always need to worry about how we will run that one crucial application next year, the year afte...
Article | 29/06/2011 Microsoft boosts Java accommodations on Azure cloud
Microsoft is improving accommodations for Java developers on the Windows Azure cloud, with an upgraded plug-in for Eclipse-based software developers.
Article | 29/06/2011 Office 365: Hands-on look at Microsoft's Cloud services
Microsoft officially launched Office 365 on Tuesday.
Article | 28/06/2011 Cloud computing's present and future: What you need to know
I had the opportunity to participate in two conferences over the past couple of weeks, and got what are essentially headlines ripped from today's news...