The rush to virtualize data-center resources has players across the entire IT landscape working to deliver virtualization products and win …
As Google turns 10, enterprise success in question
As the search giant celebrates its 10th anniversary of incorporation this month, riding a years-long bonanza from its search business, …
Virtual possibilities
In today's complex IT environments, server virtualisation simply makes sense. Redundant server hardware can rapidly fill enterprise datacenters to capacity; …
CIOs lack the ‘green’ to go green
Seventy-six percent of executives queried do not have a committed budget for a greening policy, even though 90% believe that …
HP launches product blitz for virtualisation
The products include a ProLiant blade server “built from the ground up” for virtualisation, four thin-client computers for virtualising desktops, …
New EMC Celerra NX4
With a flexible design enabling it to be deployed in NAS (network attached storage), iSCSI and Fibre Channel SAN (storage …
Fujitsu readies eight-core Sparc64 chip
Fujitsu's Takumi Maruyama mentioned the chip briefly at the end of a presentation at the Hot Chips conference in Palo …
Dell gains, Sun loses in worldwide server market
IBM retained the top spot but had slower revenue growth than Dell, while HP stayed in second place with hardly …
More cores, bigger cache give boost to Dunnington
Code-named Dunnington, the six-core Xeon processor is designed for servers that have four or more processors. Manufactured using a 45-nanometer …
HP results gain on laptop, blade sales
Revenue rose 10 percent to US$28 billion in the quarter, which ended July 31, compared with the same quarter last …
Untangling the LAN
When troubleshooting a network outage, nothing is more annoying than going through dozens of hardware and software checks only to …
Cisco Nexus 5000 bridges the network gap
A switch that promises to deliver the services of Ethernet and FC over the same wire without packet losses and …
AMD to make a splash in the server chipset space
The new chipset will be geared toward servers, with multiple sockets to plug in additional server chips. The chipset could …
Blade growth to be stymied
Gartner projects a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19 % for blade shipments from 2007 through 2012. The dramatic …
Fighting threats on every front
The threats to a corporation's security are changing so quickly that it is difficult to determine what steps are required …
A future look at data centre power
The “No Power Struggles Project” sounds like some utopian political system where different factions work for the common good. In …
Wireless networks: The burning questions
How will 802.11n high-throughput wireless LANs affect the corporate net? A surprising number of wireless LAN vendors have recently announced …
Being offline !
Although the Internet seems to be everywhere these days, there are still times when it's beyond your reach — on …