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Comment A case in question is the Docklands area of London where the electricity grid is operating at full capacity and companies are having to move server farms to new areas where there is sufficient power. For example, the average server farm is...
[16 May 2008]
Comment I think the Naked CIO is confusing open source with server and desktop OSs. First up this week, readers were engaging in debate over the pros and cons of outsourcing. Then we have silicon.com resident Naked CIO who has been ruffling some feathers...
[08 May 2008]
Comment My oldest machine, a Powermac pizza box, bought in 1994 still works as a mail server. Comments came flying in on this, some cheering for the winner, while some were a little miffed their favourite didn't feature on the poll… And from old computers...
[24 Apr 2008]
Comment Almost half (47 per cent) do not bother to measure server use, while an incredible one in five say it can take them more than a day to find a server that has gone down. That's down to a major break-down in communications between the board and IT...
[07 Apr 2008]
Comment Half of the CIO Agenda respondents said they will be investing in virtualisation and just over a third (35 per cent) are spending on server technologies. Pressure to justify IT budgets and get better value for money from tech investment are the key...
[26 Mar 2008]
Round-Up While Apple had to assure some crazed developers that their inability to get hold of the SDK over the weekend was actually because of high server demand, dozens of companies have already made commitments about developing for the platform.
[14 Mar 2008]
Comment Windows Server 2008 - find out what the silicon.com CIO Jury think. Nothing odd in that. Except that - while it had his address on it - it was in someone else's name. And it was for a phone number that wasn't his, on a network he had never used.
[13 Mar 2008]
Comment Indeed, Microsoft took the opportunity to try and steal IBM's thunder by revealing figures this week that show more than 300 companies began migrating to Microsoft Outlook, Exchange Server and SharePoint Server in the second half of last year.
[24 Jan 2008]
Round-Up Last year, Gates used his appearance to show off, among other things, Windows Home Server. "And now, the end is here And so I face the final curtain. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates took his final bow on stage at the CES show in Las Vegas this weekend.
[11 Jan 2008]
Comment That brings in all kinds of governance problems - having marketing install its own server on the network and failing to maintain it properly is asking for trouble. For some IT directors, getting the trust and respect they feel they deserve in the...
[09 Jan 2008]
Comment Now virtualisation is mainstream, fears about putting too many apps on the same server are evaporating. The new, consolidated server will consume more power than one of the 10 that it replaced, for example.
[21 Dec 2007]
Comment A software agent might help IT departments monitor the capacity of a RAID array, for example, or assess how many empty CPU cycles an underused server was burning through. But the trick is knowing what to monitor and then how to monitor it, says...
[10 Dec 2007]
Comment The average office can be just as inefficient and power-hungry as a creaking 20th century server farm. You may think you are buying a green server but if you manage it inefficiently, it's not as green as my old server that's properly optimised.
[03 Dec 2007]
Comment In effect, they are using the same techniques as in mash-ups to impersonate their victims to a third-party server. Jacob West, manager of the research group at security specialist Fortify Software, said: "Interactive and dynamic web 2.0...
[26 Nov 2007]
AS Profile The judges were impressed with the introduction of the Sky+ Box home hub, which could compete with the PC server's position in the consumer market as a single device for music, video and internet access.
[12 Oct 2007]
AS Profile But Greene is not resting on her virtual laurels and continues to come up with new ideas - including how to keep an IT service available even when the server it is running on fails. VMware CEO and co-founder Diane Greene has made this year's list...
[12 Oct 2007]
Comment The information was simply placed on an open server instead of a secure network, a completely preventable and inexcusable error. The public sector's data management is looking increasingly like Swiss cheese - full of holes.
[13 Sep 2007]
Comment But Vizioncore says it will now also be able to support Virtual Iron and Microsoft Virtual Server through its partnership with Invirtus. In particular the V2V capability brought in by the Invirtus agreement is interesting as it allows users to...
[05 Sep 2007]
Round-Up Finally the CIO is also expected to be 'chief information officer', though the focus is on information rather than IT, which the Round-Up always thought was the whole crux of the role - to emphasise the migration from the server room to the...
[31 Aug 2007]
Comment The problem with the greening of IT is that - admittedly this is a generalisation - the underlying goal is to get you to buy more: new servers with more energy-efficient processors, intelligent sensors for data centre coolant systems, server...
[13 Aug 2007]
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