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Start-ups placing faith in the cloud
News The roundtable featured representatives from eight start-ups covering a range of areas including web-learning tools, contact and sales management, managed hosting, social networking and tools to help companies manage data in data-rich... [07 Nov 2008]
Virtualisation: At risk from attack
News Benjamin Low, managing director of Asia South at Secure Computing, added in an email that the mobility of virtual environments and the fact that VMs can "hide" when they are not active make it difficult... [20 Oct 2008]
Top 10 strategic techs for 2009
News Web-centric technologies and standards will continue to affect enterprise computing models, says Gartner - leading to greater use of service-oriented environments in the business over the next five years. [15 Oct 2008]
Red Hat invests in virtualisation
News Qumranet uses its own proprietary thin-client protocol called Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (Spice), which lets remote desktops run at high speed. Red Hat has bought its way... [08 Sep 2008]
Google digs deep for geothermal energy
News Google.org will also invest $4m into Potter Drilling, which is making drilling products designed for hard-rock environments like granite. It has also installed a large 1.6-megawatt solar array, established a plug-in... [20 Aug 2008]
HP Integrity gets Parallel virtualisation
News Parallels' Containers partition an operating system into different operating environments, rather than following the VMware/XenServer model of virtualised operating systems sitting on top of a hypervisor software layer. [03 Jul 2008]
Jonathan Zittrain on why the internet is on a knife edge
News We see it in corporate environments where the CIO has rationally locked down employees' PCs so that they can't install new software or even screensavers without centralised permission. The Oxford University internet law... [30 Jun 2008]
IBM smashes the supercomputing petaflop
News Divari predicted that computers 10 times as powerful as Roadrunner would be in existence in 10 years' time, enabling simulations of environments in real-time. Computing giant IBM has built a... [11 Jun 2008]
Lenovo puts Olympic tech through its paces
News For instance, the ThinkCentre M55e capable of working in damp environments has been tested at conditions of up to 90 per cent humidity in the Beijing National Aquatics Centre. In a company statement yesterday, the... [30 May 2008]
Unilever in $675m HP outsourcing deal
News The deal includes the outsourcing of 4,500 servers and storage environments and will see 250 Unilever IT staff move to HP. HP will provide a single point of contact for Unilever's enterprise computing... [13 Feb 2008]
Tomorrow's robots - our invisible friends?
News There will be micro-intelligences all around us - systems that are very good and adaptive at particular tasks, and we will be immersed in environments stuffed full of helpful devices," he added. Developments in... [11 Sep 2007]
Five virtual world security worries for business
News These risks shouldn't be ignored, he said - but neither should the potential opportunities and benefits that arise from using these new environments for corporate collaboration and communications. As a result companies... [09 Aug 2007]
Dell CTO sees Linux virtualisation sweet spot
News Despite its recent growth, Linux is lagging in terms of the worldwide combined paid server operating system environments by Microsoft and others. He said: "To encourage use of Linux for virtual... [08 Aug 2007]
CIO Essentials: Open source, green tech, women in IT
News As the computing environments have become more common but harsher - tougher deadlines, on-call 24/7 and long hours - many bright people have dropped out for less anti-social, anti-family pursuits. When I... [19 Jun 2007]
Preparing for war 2.0
News Asset tracking and equipment monitoring could see increased use of existing technologies such as RFID, although defence has some specific needs - such as the ability for tags to be covert in battlefield and to operate in harsh... [18 Oct 2006]
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