Dell reveals new servers and storage for SMBs

Dell rounded out a busy year so far with the launch of new servers and storage equipment tailored towards the needs of the small to medium sized businesses.

By Tom Jowitt | 10 September, 2009 23:30

Tags: storage, servers, dell

Study predicts inhouse data centre capacity decline

New research has found that companies are expecting their in-house data centre capacity to decrease going forward, despite most organisations moving their client server-based applications into the cloud.

By Tom Jowitt | 08 September, 2009 05:04

Tags: IDC, Data Center, cloud computing

Start-up set to take on Skype over video

A US company has upgraded its cross-platform videoconferencing service and at the same time launched a new plan designed to broaden its appeal to the small to medium business (SMB) segment.

By Tom Jowitt | 22 July, 2009 00:07

Tags: ooVoo, Skype, video conferencing

Google banks on data centre with no chillers

Google has taken a radical new approach when it comes to cooling data centres. The search giant has opened a unique data centre in Belgium that has no backup chillers installed, but instead relies totally upon free air cooling to keep its servers cool.

By Tom Jowitt | 20 July, 2009 08:55

Tags: belgium, data centres, Google

Yahoo invents 'chicken coop' data centre design

Yahoo is touting a data centre design which it says is based on 'chicken coops'. But data centre operator e-shelter, while welcoming the concept, has queried whether the design would be suitable for the corporate sector.

By Tom Jowitt | 08 July, 2009 01:54

Tags: data centres, Yahoo

Complex firewalls cost money says new report

Most organisations are getting a poor return on their investments in firewalls due to the complex issues in managing them. This is despite the fact that enterprises are facing on average 300 network attacks every year.

By Tom Jowitt | 07 July, 2009 08:34

Tags: firewalls, security

DiskShred offers mobile disk destruction service

One company is offering to resolve the perennial problem of how companies can securely dispose of old hard drives containing valuable commercial data, after it setup a mobile disk shredding service that will come to a customer's site and destroy old hard disks.

By Tom Jowitt | 30 June, 2009 08:51

Tags: data security, hard drive, security, storage

Parallels to offer XP compatibility for Win 7

Parallels is developing a tool that will allow users to run Windows XP applications on machines running Windows 7.

By Tom Jowitt | 11 May, 2009 23:54

Tags: Microsoft, Parallels, virtualisation, Windows 7

Seagate drives hit by firmware glitch

A UK data recovery specialist has warned that users are still at risk from a firmware update from Seagate, which could leave their organisations with "bricked" hard disk drives (HDDs).

By Tom Jowitt | 07 May, 2009 00:24

Tags: seagate

Businesses wary of Windows 7 after Vista flop

A new survey has found that the majority of IT staff don't plan to upgrade to Windows 7 in the next year, after Vista's failure to win hearts and minds. But even more concerning for Microsoft is that half are now considering an operating system from its rivals.

By Tom Jowitt | 16 April, 2009 08:37

Tags: Windows 7, Windows Vista

Greenpeace slams HP, Dell and Lenovo for toxic substances

PC makers Dell, HP and Lenovo have been criticised in the latest edition of Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics, after the environmental campaigner said they are breaking their promises to phase-out toxic chemicals in 2009.

Compuware puts mainframe tools in one pot

Compuware has unified two of its performance management tools so that customers can monitor the performance of applications running on distributed servers right through to mainframe computers, from one place.

IT managers face 'application anarchy' that eats bandwidth

Almost 40 percent of enterprise network bandwidth is being consumed by recreational or non-business critical applications, according to a recent survey of IT managers.

By Tom Jowitt | 19 February, 2009 10:06

Tags: applications, bandwidth, it managers

Motorola launches LTE trial in the UK

Motorola has launched a LTE (Long Term Evolution) trial network in the UK after opening a testing lab in Swindon, that will allow UK operators to experiment with the 4G technology.

By Tom Jowitt | 03 February, 2009 07:26

Tags: lte

New software puts 'sleepless' PCs to bed

British firm 1E has launched a "significant upgrade" for its PC power management software, NightWatchman, which puts PCs to sleep at night so that businesses can reduce their carbon footprint and power consumption.

By Tom Jowitt | 29 January, 2009 07:30

Tags: 1E, NightWatchman