A host of chip makers, including IBM, announced a partnership on Thursday to develop low-power chips for mobile devices, which …
Mobile’s future is in links, ex-Nokia CTO says
The standard architecture that will realize the promise of mobile phones won't be hardware or software but a cloud-based platform …
Rising data-loading speeds may be leaving most BI users behind
One of the more prosaic parts of data warehousing is getting information into a warehouse in the first place. Vendors …
Sun exec: Users focused on products, not acquisition rumors
The head of Sun Microsystems Inc.'s hardware business acknowledged the acquisition rumors swirling around his company yesterday but insisted that …
A faster, sleeker way to do MySQL?
The archetypal MySQL database chugs along in the server room of a Web 2.0 start-up, powering a small but promising …
Sun fires back at Cisco with blade network switch
Sun Microsystems introduced its Nehalem-based server line-up on Tuesday, along with a new networking product that takes aim at an …
New processor technology promises big boost to consumer-grade SSDs
SandForce Inc. announced today a new family of solid-state disk (SSD) processors that the company claims will allow lower-cost, commodity …
Fiber cuts slash Silicon Valley’s Internet arteries
Cuts in fiber-optic lines early Thursday at two locations near Silicon Valley shut down two IBM facilities and affected an …
Analysis: Where did Sun go wrong?
Just before the crash of the dot-com boom that spawned the meteoric rise of Sun Microsystems Inc., then-CEO Scott McNealy …
Unified communications applications coming to the cloud
Expect more communications services from cloud-computing providers such as IBM's LotusLive Engage that becomes available tomorrow, according to makers of …
IT pros: Private clouds a good first step to cloud computing
Deploying a private cloud network is a good way for enterprises to ease into cloud computing before deploying applications on …
Microsoft exec blasts ‘Open Cloud Manifesto’
A set of principles promoting cloud computing interoperability was sharply criticized by a Microsoft Corp. executive just days before its …
Intel sets Moblin free at risk of port to rival ARM
Intel Corp. plans to turn over to the Linux Foundation control of Moblin, the Linux operating system it developed for …
Conficker’s makers lose big, expert says
The malware makers who crafted Conficker must be extremely disappointed, a security expert said today, and not because the Internet …
Does the data centre dustup favour Cisco?
Although the announcement didn’t come as a surprise to the IT industry, it is the way competitors lined up to …
Siemens launches cloud experiment at VoiceCon
Siemens is announcing at VoiceCon Orlando a unified-communications-in-the-cloud experiment with Amazon.com, which could result in services that avoid capital costs …
Cloud Security Alliance formed to promote best practices
A group calling itself the Cloud Security Alliance announced its formation Tuesday, with eBay and ING as founding members. The …
Cloud computing vendors converge on standard definition, goals
When “cloud computing” became the buzz-phrase du jour in IT sometime in the past year or two, you could probably …
Sun improves its virtualization offering with VDI Software 3
While we wait around to find out what's going on with the supposed IBM acquisition of Sun, it appears as …
Intel’s Nehalem EP server chips hit the market
If you weren't expecting Intel Corp. to release its latest line of server and workstation chips on Monday, you may …