Companies are struggling to fill the skills shortage in mainframe development as existing staff retire and IT students are put …
Disk storage system sales in Q4 top $8.5 bn: IDC
In the last quarter of 2011, disk storage systems generated more than $8.5 billion in revenue, representing a 3.5% increase …
Judge hints at stay of Oracle-Google trial until patent reexamination is over
The judge overseeing Oracle’s intellectual property lawsuit against Google wants Oracle to provide “a clear answer” as to why the …
IBM tops Cloud provider report
Australian ICT research firm, Longhaus, has dubbed IBM as the most trusted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) Cloud provider in its new report …
IT execs accept BYOD, despite some reservations: survey
Despite security and IT integration problems related to the consumerisation of IT in the workplace, CEOs and IT execs are …
AMD buys SeaMicro for $334 mn, enters server hardware business
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced yesterday it is buying low-power server vendor SeaMicro, a surprise move that puts AMD in …
Avaya releases communications management platform
Avaya is looking to take over the management of an enterprise’s entire communications platform with a new offering the company …
Microsoft unveils Windows 8 “Consumer Preview,” downloads start
Microsoft yesterday released its “Consumer Preview” of Windows 8, and before Windows president Steve Sinofsky finished his presentation to reporters …
Thai floods catapult Seagate into hard drive market lead
The flooding in Thailand last year helped Seagate Technology recapture the worldwide lead in hard disk drive shipments in the …
Microsoft’s Azure cloud suffers serious outage
Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure and development service experienced a serious outage yesterday, with the system’s service management component going down …
Tubulent turnover
CIOs lament twenty – something techies who quit after a year Louis Trebino, CIO and senior VP at the Harry …
Intel, Visa partner on NFC payments
Visa and Intel have announced a partnership that should make it easier for consumers to make mobile payments via phones …
Dell claims it has network virtualization architecture too
Dell this week is throwing its hat into the virtual networking ring with an architecture that initially is long on …
Oracle’s Exalytics now available, set for showdown with SAP’s HANA
Oracle announced the general availability of Exalytics, the latest in its family of specialised appliances and a direct competitor to …