Microsoft has opened up for business its new Dublin data center, a massive 550,000-square-foot facility dedicated to serving primarily European …
VMware partners to offer Amazon-like compute services
VMware Inc. announced a new program that will allow its service-provider partners to offer pay-as-you go computing services similar to …
Nine data storage companies to watch
Building a data storage start-up in this economy is quite a challenge, but there is room for innovation in an …
Open source alternatives invade Microsoft's competitor list
Microsoft's list of competitors is growing to include more open source software and Web browsers as the company fights to …
Open source alternatives invade Microsoft's competitor list
Microsoft's list of competitors is growing to include more open source software and Web browsers as the company fights to …
HP storage scales up with Ibrix buy
HP has agreed to purchase a storage company called Ibrix that builds file serving software for extreme cloud and high-performance …
Azure enterprise licenses will be simple
Microsoft has not made clear how it will incorporate Windows Azure pricing into the long-term contracts it signs with its …
Microsoft details Windows Azure pricing, availability
Microsoft revealed pricing and more details about how it will sell its Windows Azure cloud-computing infrastructure, making it free for …
HP unveils Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio
HP Technology Solutions Group (TSG) today launched the HP Extreme Scale-Out (ExSO) portfolio which it claims is designed to deliver …
AMD pushes six-core chips for servers
Advanced Micro Devices announced six-core Opteron chips, which make them the fastest server chips the company has released to date. …
Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management
Microsoft opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of …
EMC, Symantec kick-off security barrage
With the RSA Conference cranking up, EMC’s security division RSA and Symantec rolled out security product releases. Symantec also said …
VMware’s version of flexibility doesn’t include Microsoft Hyper-V
VMware promises new levels of flexibility in the data center with vSphere, its cloud operating system, but is still promoting …
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 …
Trend Micro expands SaaS security strategy
Trend Micro expanded its software-as-a service strategy to reach a wider range of business customers while taking steps to keep …
Inside HP Labs: 8 cool projects
Innovation is both an exciting, revolutionary event and a mundane step-by-step process. For every remarkable, headline-making discovery — flash memory! …
Microsoft to present open source blueprint for down economy
Microsoft plans to use this week's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) to outline its move into the next phase of …
New blade server is key to Cisco data center plan
Cisco Systems Inc. has unveiled its first blade server, which will serve as the centerpiece of a system the company …
What Cisco’s UCS means to management vendors?
Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) launch earlier this week impacted several vendors across the management software market. Not only did …
Windows Azure goes down for early adopters
Users of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Azure cloud-computing network suffered an overnight outage over the weekend during which their applications being …