Some figures first. A virtual machine is created every 6 seconds. To put that in perspective, it’s more than the …
EMEA enterprise IT spend will decline: Gartner
Enterprise IT spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will reach €604 billion in 2011, a 1.4% decline …
Small businesses stuck in IT ‘dark age’: Intel
A shortage of money, combined with a lack of technical expertise, is keeping half of small businesses in a technology …
A solutions company
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell outlines the company’s aggressive plans to grow its portfolio of solutions by acquiring more intellectual …
30% of corporate BlackBerry users want new device: survey
The BlackBerry device and its maker, Research in Motion (RIM), were in serious trouble even before last week’s global service …
Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
Red Hat announced yesterday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS …
Microsoft CEO hints at ‘Metro-isation’ of Office
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer over the weekend strongly hinted that the company will craft a Metro-style version of the next …
Connection in progress
IP telephony is only part of the gains expected from unified IP communication The business case to move to a …
Cisco unveils routers, takes swipe at Juniper
Cisco this week unveiled three service provider edge routers, along with an aggressive marketing campaign against rival Juniper. Cisco added three …
End-users desire improved DM and DR capabilities, survey finds
The adoption of server virtualisation continues to accelerate as organisations continue to consolidate physical servers in an effort to rein …
HP launches new storage federation technology
HP today announced yesterday that it has expanded its Converged Storage portfolio with HP Peer Motion, new federated storage software …
Revisions galore for HP
Six months after laying out his “strategic vision” for HP, CEO Leo Apotheker took the actions to realise it and …
The PC is the new mainframe: IBM
“The PC is dead!” We’ve heard that message a lot since the birth of Apple’s iPad, but when one of …
HP updates dependency mapping software
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has updated its dependency mapping software to help customers figure out which departments are using which systems and …
Lloyds Banking Group lines up huge HBOS system migration
Lloyds Banking Group is testing systems ahead of a major migration of Halifax and Bank of Scotland (HBOS) accounts onto …
Alcatel-Lucent returns to profit
Alcatel-Lucent reported a smaller increase in revenue than analysts had expected, but returned to profit in the second quarter. For …
Information, cloud and connectivity dynamically changing enterprise IT: HP
“The enterprise world is rapidly changing; every process is becoming mobile, connected, interactive, immediate and fluid,” says Franz Munnich, HP …
Sneak peek into Oracle’s MySQL 5.6 features
Oracle yesterday announced a sneak peak at features slated for MySQL 5.6, the next version of its open-source database, that …
Structuring data
Comprehensive data management – bringing together structured and unstructured information – within an organisation is popularly touted as the next …
Netting profits
Based on the popular belief that customers are constantly shopping for better experiences, retail organisations across the globe are investing …