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Article | 10/06/2009 Dell bundling open source applications for SMBs

Dell is planning to offer small and medium businesses (SMBs) globally pre-configured bundles of hardware and open source software to run their busines...

Article | 9/06/2009 Nanotube chip could store data for a billion years

Researchers have demonstrated a form of archive memory using carbon nanotubes that can theoretically store a trillion bits of data per square inch for...

Article | 9/06/2009 Greenplum spins 'Enterprise Data Cloud' vision

Data warehousing vendor Greenplum on Monday rolled out its "Enterprise Data Cloud" initiative, a long-term product and methodology strategy meant to f...

Article | 4/06/2009 Forrester Forum: Keep control of cloud computing

The cloud computing business model is a threat to traditional information technology, but for end users, it carries a risk of "lock-in".

Article | 3/06/2009 Australian server market goes kaput

The Australian server market has gone to “hell in a hand basket” in the first quarter of the year, according to IDC.

Article | 5/06/2009 Data Domain accepts new NetApp offer

NetApp has claimed victory in the bidding war with EMC over Data Domain, a vendor of deduplication storage systems, though EMC insists its all-cash of...

Article | 5/06/2009 Google plans significant improvements to Docs suite

Google Docs, a hosted suite of office productivity applications, still has a ways to go in its development, but users can expect dramatic changes in t...

Article | 4/06/2009 Red Hat virtual desktop technology heads into beta tests

Side-by-side Windows displays might be the last thing you would expect to see taking center stage at Red Hat's booth at the recent Interop show in Las...

Article | 3/06/2009 London servers crash after data centre overheats

The spate of hot weather in the UK claimed a notable scalp after a London data centre experienced a cooling failure, which caused several servers to o...

Article | 4/06/2009 Cisco adds rack server to data center computing system

Cisco this week extended its Unified Computing System data center convergence platform with rack mountable servers, saying the new form factor represe...

Article | 3/06/2009 SanDisk releases faster netbook SSDs

SanDisk Corp. today announced the general availability of two new solid state disk (SSD) drives for netbooks that it said increase random read/write r...

Article | 2/06/2009 Update: EMC bids $1.8 billion for Data Domain

EMC on Monday moved to head off NetApp's proposed acquisition of data de-duplication vendor Data Domain, offering about US$1.8 billion compared with N...

Article | 2/06/2009 AMD pushes six-core chips as upgrade to Shanghai

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced six-core Opteron chips, which make them the fastest server chips the company has released to date.

Article | 2/06/2009 Physicists claim laser can increase disk I/O by 100,000 times

A team of French physicists said they have discovered a way to use lasers to accelerate storage I/O on hard discs by up to 100,000 times current read/...

Article | 1/06/2009 Intel Delays Itanium Server Chip Till 2010

Intel Corp. has once again delayed the release of its next-generation Itanium server processor to develop undisclosed "application scalability" enhanc...

Article | 1/06/2009 VMware denies banning competitors from VMworld

VMware this week had to reassure industry observers that it will not ban competition from the VMworld conference, after bloggers took the company to t...

Article | 1/06/2009 Cloud computing help for small businesses offered

HP and cloud application integrator Cast Iron Systems have ironed out a partnership linking Cast Iron software and HP hardware to help small and midsi...

Article | 29/05/2009 HP to axe 850 UK jobs

HP is set to axe 850 manufacturing jobs in the UK, according to trade union Unite.

Article | 29/05/2009 Server revenue declined sharply in Q1, IDC says

A precipitous fall in worldwide server shipments triggered a sharp decline in revenue for server makers during the first quarter of 2009, IDC said in ...

Article | 28/05/2009 Hitachi unveils clustering software for high-end storage virtualization controller

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Inc. today announced new clustering software for its high-end Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V (USP V) controller, a vi...