Generally, fixing any complex problem comes down to three steps: breaking the problem down into components, conducting triage and deciding …
Amazon introduces data warehouse service
Adding to an already considerable set of cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, …
Alcatel-Lucent enters crowding SDN field
Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability …
HP-Autonomy fallout: The winners and losers
Hewlett-Packard’s bombshell revelation that it would take a US$8.8 billion non-cash writedown after allegedly discovering major accounting fraud related to its Autonomy …
5 things you need to know about smart cities
1. It’s not all cool technology. Though the definition of the term “smart city” is still fuzzy, it suggests using advances …
Nvidia, AMD release graphics processors for supercomputing
Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices yesterday announced high-performance graphics chips for supercomputers. Nvidia announced GPUs (graphics processing units) called K20 …
Intel ships 60-core Xeon Phi processor
Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first …
‘Analytics is far more than just BI’
Jim Goodnight is one of the world’s great business leaders, not to mention the wealthiest man in the state of …
Security vendor Crossbeam bought by private equity firm
Crossbeam has been bought by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, opening up the door for the security company to expand its product …
Intel ships 60-core Xeon Phi processor
Intel hopes to deliver performance and power-efficiency breakthroughs to servers with the new Xeon Phi family of processors, the first …
Apple’s ‘ambitious processor plans’ to involve ditching Intel in future Macs?
Apple is investigating ways to ditch Intel chips in future Macs and replace them with its own ARM chips like …
Lenovo’s new enterprise division introduces its first server
Looking beyond PCs and tablets, Lenovo yesterday announced the first server from the newly formed Enterprise Product Group, which deals …
CommVault introduces new snapshot automation software
CommVault has announced Simpana IntelliSnap Recovery Manager, a software product for automating snapshot management and application-aware recovery. The introduction comes …
Ballmer hails Windows 8 momentum
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off the company’s annual Build developer conference emphasising the momentum of the company’s new Windows …
Taking the virtual step
Virtualised storage was a game changing technology for IT. The introduction of virtualisation has delivered many benefits for IT departments …
Seasons of change
A fundamental change in server architecture could be on tap as companies look to cut data centre costs and power consumption. …
CIO Spotlight: A life in IT
The inaugural CIO Spotlight focuses on Joe Tesfai, Senior VP of IT at Atlantis hotel. Born and raised in Kenya, …
SAP reveals policies, pricing for cloud integrations
SAP has laid out a set of pricing and policies for tying together its array of cloud-based and on-premises applications, …
Vendor value add
IBM brings its partners a number of support initiatives to help them play a greater part in the company’s route to expansion through 2015. Mark Hennessy, GM, IBM Global Partners and Midmarket, tells us more while Ilse Cilliers, VP Global Business Partners, MEA gives us the regional take.
Big data to create 1.9M IT jobs in U.S. by 2015, says Gartner
There were a lot of reasons for Gartner researchers to give a gloomy economic outlook at its Symposium/ITxpo conference here, …