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Article | 31/03/2009 IBM, HP, Dell aim to cut costs with new Xeon servers

The world's top server vendors on Monday updated their product lines, launching new servers to coincide with the release of Intel's next-generation Xe...

Article | 27/03/2009 Solid-state flash products hit market en masse

Solid-state drives based on flash memory are turning up in products from seemingly every hardware vendor these days, signaling that the technology may...

Article | 27/03/2009 Gartner: Cloud spending to skyrocket in 2009

IT shops are turning to the cloud even faster than expected, at least according to Gartner, and other firms had already predicted hearty adoption thro...

Article | 28/10/2008 Lenovo servers debut with Windows, Linux support

A recent decision by Lenovo to cut back sales of pre-installed Linux PCs has not altered the company’s commitment to offer operating system choice for...

Article | 26/03/2009 Dell upgrades enterprise servers, storage

Dell has released fourteen new products in a significant refresh of its enterprise server, workstation and storage systems portfolio.

Article | 26/03/2009 High demand for virtualization in China, VMware says

VMware will expand in China as it moves to meet rising demand for desktop and data center virtualization in the country, a company executive said in a...

Article | 26/03/2009 New security threats, data integration, affecting cloud adoption

Questions around security, vendor openness and cost continue to hold back cloud computing adoption in Australia, according to analyst firm IDC.

Article | 26/03/2009 Dell adds SSDs in updated EqualLogic line

Dell is set to update on Wednesday the virtualized storage line it acquired in its purchase of EqualLogic last year, now aiming at the needs of larger...

Article | 25/03/2009 Dell promises Nehalem servers, new services news this week

Dell plans to announce in the next few days new servers and services offerings, the company's chief executive said Tuesday.

Article | 25/03/2009 Microsoft won't let companies host Azure on premise

Microsoft has no plans to let businesses license and host its Windows Azure cloud-computing infrastructure on their own premises, the company said thi...

Article | 25/03/2009 The Planet bundles hosted NAS, cloud storage

Hosting company The Planet has teamed up with Nirvanix to bundle widely available cloud storage with high-speed hosted capacity.

Article | 24/03/2009 Backup provider Carbonite loses data, sues vendor

Online backup service provider Carbonite is suing storage vendor Promise Technology, saying repeated failures of Promise gear have caused "significant...

Article | 23/03/2009 Startup launches social Web video analytics

Sydney-based video technology company Vquence has launched a social video metrics product dubbed VQmetrics aimed at making sense of social video marke...

Article | 20/03/2009 Cloud provider 3Tera announces 'five nines' SLA

Cloud-computing provider 3Tera announced this week that beginning in April, its Virtual Private Datacenter service will offer a 99.999 percent SLA (se...

Article | 19/03/2009 Techies all a'Twitter over IBM-Sun talks

With industry giants IBM and Sun Microsystems reportedly in merger talks, techies the world over rushed to their keyboards and mobile devices to Twitt...

Article | 18/03/2009 Report: IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems

IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for as much as US$6.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Article | 17/03/2009 HP launches entry-level Itanium servers

Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched a new line of Integrity NonStop servers that the company says offers improved performance over its other entry-leve...

Article | 16/03/2009 Fusion-io unveils SSD drives with 1.5GB throughput

Fusion-io Friday announced what it is calling the fastest server-based solid state drive on the market today, with double the slot capacity if its old...

Article | 16/03/2009 Rackspace takes on Amazon with cloud server, storage services

Amazon has a new competitor in the cloud computing arena, with Rackspace debuting pay-as-you-go server instances and an online storage service.

Article | 13/03/2009 AWS adds option to reserve capacity on cloud

Amazon Web Services Thursday for the first time began giving customers in the U.S. the ability to reserve capacity in advance on its Elastic Compute C...