With demand for storage and networking capabilities skyrocketing, in-house and hosted data centres are being put under greater pressure than …
Acer beefs up Chromebook line with new C7
There appears to be no end to the Chromebook phenomenon, which has seen PC maker after PC maker jump onto Google‘s Chrome …
Oracle acquires private cloud firm Nimbula
Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent …
Rumours fly on VMware public cloud offering
VMware is reportedly preparing a public cloud offering that it would run itself, however VMware officials have refused to comment on …
NASA’s role in OpenStack
IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as …
AWS provides easy entry to SAP HANA
It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features …
Many private clouds ‘not clouds at all’
The line between virtualisation and a private cloud can be a fuzzy one, and according to a new report by Forrester Research, …
Pick of the bunch
When somebody decides to host a global tour, one of the things they have to decide is in which city …
Microsoft raises Office for Mac prices
Microsoft has quietly raised prices of Office for the Mac by as much as 17 percent, and has also stopped …
Mobile industry ‘no longer about devices’
The mobile industry might be preparing to show off lots of new gadgets at this month’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but …
BlackBerry 10 launch ‘breaks records’
BlackBerry said this week that launch sales of its new BlackBerry 10-based handsets in Canada and the U.K. have beaten …
Microsoft sells just 900K Surface RT tablets
IDC said on Friday that Microsoft shipped an estimated 900,000 Surface RT tablets last quarter, barely missing the top five …
Oracle launches line of on-premise IaaS systems
Oracle has launched a set of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) systems that companies can run in-house and pay for on a monthly …
Dropbox users face weekend frustration
The weekend saw Dropbox users frustrated by issues with syncing and uploading files, as well as creating shareable links. The …
A new world
The rise of virtualisation and cloud has revolutionised the data centre. With many touting 2013 as the year of cloud …
Cloud service partnerships to boom in 2013
Cloud service providers will seek out partnerships to offer a wider breadth of services that customers are increasingly demanding, a new report …
AMD shows off Windows 8 tablet with upcoming Tamesh chip
Advanced Micro Devices showed off a Windows 8 tablet running the company’s upcoming tablet chip code-named Temash, which the company …
2012’s final week sees most device activations, app downloads
Tech gadgets have proven to be popular Christmas gifts this year, leading the last week of 2012 to see the …
Microsoft C# named programming language of 2012
Microsoft’s C# has been crowned the number one programming language of the year by the PopularitY of Programming Language (PYPL) …
Red Hat to acquire ManageIQ
Red Hat has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ManageIQ, which provides enterprise cloud management …