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Article | 26/08/2011 Ladies love e-readers, are less keen on tablets
Women have increasingly become the most frequent buyers of e-readers even as their interest in tablets and smartphones has remained relatively steady,...
Article | 26/08/2011 Verizon boosts cloud services with CloudSwitch buy
Verizon Thursday said it has acquired CloudSwitch and plans to use its cloud software to help enterprise customers more easily move applications to Ve...
Article | 23/08/2011 First look: VMware vSphere 5 looms large
As we rapidly approach yet another VMworld conference and the general release of VMware vSphere 5, it's clear that VMware hasn't been resting on its l...
Article | 20/08/2011 IBM: The PC is the new mainframe
"The PC is dead!" We've heard that message a lot since the birth of Apple's iPad, but when one of the creators of IBM's first PC added his voice to th...
Article | 18/08/2011 Motorola Mobility buy could boost Google's enterprise push
Google has been pushing hard to work its way into the enterprise, but it remains to be seen whether that effort will be aided by this week's acquisiti...
Article | 16/08/2011 Preparing for the real costs of cloud computing
At a cloud computing conference in New York in June, a number of speakers pointed out that the cloud is moving past the hype stage and is beginning to...
Article | 10/08/2011 Skytap automates cloud deployments
Skytap, a provider of cloud automation software, this week unveiled orchestration and configuration products designed to enable enterprises to easily ...
Article | 10/08/2011 Electromagnetic interference and 10GBase-T in the data center
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the subm...
Article | 9/08/2011 Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT
How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds ha...
Article | 9/08/2011 SSD drives promise to enhance storage performance, but a new host-interface-standard holds the key
This vendor-written tech primer is submitted on the behalf of the NVMe Promoter Group, which is backed by Cisco, Dell, EMC, IDT, Intel, Micron, NetApp...
Article | 3/08/2011 Google, data centers using less power than expected
Data centers have been using less electricity than you think ... or at least, compared with what they have in the past.
Article | 3/08/2011 Samsung buys MRAM maker Grandis
Samsung Electronics today said it has acquired Grandis, Inc., a Milpitas, Calif., maker of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) technology known as sp...
Article | 3/08/2011 OCZ releases next-gen PCIe SSD with 2.8GB/sec performance
OCZ today released the fifth generation of its PCI-Express solid state drive (SSD), which it said can perform at a 2.8GB/sec read rate.
Article | 3/08/2011 EBay attacks server virtualization with 100TB of SSD storage
When online auction site eBay had problems meeting the I/O storage demands of business units starved for more virtual machine (VM) deployments, its qu...
Article | 30/07/2011 Data center startup Plexxi lands $20 million more
Stealthy data center start-up Plexxi has landed another $20 million in funding as it continues development of a network fabric to tie together applica...