Intel has said it’s on track to launch the next-generation Itanium processor later this year, brushing away any speculation that the processor would reach its end of life in the near future. The next-generation Itanium chip for Unix ...
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The European Commission has announced a new strategy to speed up and increase the use of cloud computing, with the aim of creating 2.5 million new jobs and boosting GDP by €160 billion (£127bn) by 2020. The EC states that ...
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Although last week’s jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics showed better-than-expected results, the IT industry, was a big disappointment. After sustained growth – including 36,300 jobs added in July and August ...
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Dell and VMware will sell a bundled system with server, network and storage components in support of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), the companies announced this week. Dell’s new vStart for VDI is based on VMware’s View ...
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Together Housing has saved pound 500,000 by moving to a virtualised server environment. The group was formed from six other associations, all with their own legacy systems. The association is responsible for more than 35,000 homes. The ...
Microsoft has patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company’s popular Word programme and another already used to attack ...
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Dell has announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed next year. The PowerEdge C8000 servers use standard Intel x86 CPUs and offer ...
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Dell has developed a line of servers based on designs the company is using in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed at the University of Texas, Austin, starting next year. The PowerEdge C8000 ...
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Dell mapped out the next phase of its data centre strategy on Thursday with new hardware and software that it says will make it faster and cheaper for customers to deploy new hardware and applications. The new products include the Active ...
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Dell today unveiled a series of end-to-end storage portfolio updates aimed at further optimising enterprise data at every point of its lifecycle. The new products were revealed by Darren Thomas, VP and GM, Dell Storage, at the ...
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Closely following a similar announcement for its Windows 8 operating system,Microsoft also said it will release to manufacturers(RTM)its next-generation operating system for the server,Windows Server 2012,next month. The company made both ...
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Some cloud providers fail to detect and block malicious traffic originating from their networks, which provides cyber criminals with an opportunity to launch attacks in a botnet-like fashion, according to a report from security consultancy ...
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Researchers from Israel-based IT security firm Seculert have uncovered a custom-made piece of malware that infected hundreds of point-of-sale (PoS) systems from businesses in 40 countries in the past few months and stole the data of tens of ...
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At the Dell Storage Forum in Paris this week, Dell launched a back-up appliance – the DL4000 with AppAssure virtual server and cloud back-up software – and an upgrade to its DL2300 Commvault appliance, with increased capacity ...
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Dell’s financials have taken a turn for the worse following a drop in sales of its mobility products. The company reported a 47% fall in profits when compared with the same period in 2011, recording $475m for the third quarter of ...
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