Datacentre managers'perception of IT equipment's tolerance to heat and humidity dates back to the 1950s,resulting in a waste of energy resources,according to the Green Grid–a not-for-profit industry consortium for datacentre ...
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Most organisations are failing to put the necessary protections around data in virtual environments, leaving them wide open to attack, says Jason Hart, vice-president cloud solutions, SafeNet. "In the virtual world, the basic security ...
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IDG News Service-AMD has called a press conference in San Francisco on Monday where it's likely to announce plans for a SeaMicro server based on an upcoming 64-bit processor design from ARM. AMD CEO Rory Read is expected at the event,and ...
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Enterprise IT on the go with Windows 8 Windows 8 and the XP legacy What next for Windows 8 With the launch of Windows 8,Microsoft is taking a step into the unknown.In a bid to stop its lucrative PC operating system(OS)business losing ...
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IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
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Along with the long-rumored iPad Mini, Apple yesterday also refreshed its two best-selling Macs, the 13-in. MacBook Pro and the iMac. The MacBook Pro got most of the attention, as it followed its larger sibling, the 15-in. notebook by the ...
Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority has upgraded its storage infrastructure to support a web-based core database application. Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority (SCPHA) replaced its legacy information management system with a ...
Computerworld-SANTA CLARA,CALIF.--Prior to instituting a change management program,the IT group at financial and tax preparation software company Intuit took eight weeks to complete a business developer's service ticket. As in many ...
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Software giant Microsoft has posted first quarter fiscal revenues down 7.9 per cent to$16bn(£10bn),from$17.372bn(£10.8bn)achieved in the same period a year earlier. The company claimed that the results partly reflected a ...
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Swedish file sharing website, The Pirate Bay (TPB), has moved into the cloud in order to improve its services, lower costs and evade shut-down from authorities. The BitTorrent site, which had its servers raided by police in 2006, has now ...
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Oracle is pushing its combined hardware and software product range as a way for CIOs to avoid costly consultant fees. Speaking in the UK, Oracle president Mark Hurd, said open systems were more costly because they were not ...
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Infoworld-In releasing updates to its client and server Ubuntu Linux distributions today,Canonical will enable users to turn off a search option in its client product that has raised some eyebrows over privacy issues.A ...
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IDG News Service-Chip company Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it would lay off 15%of its workforce as it tries to inch back to profitability at a time when the PC market is slumping. The company will lay off close to 1,800 of its ...
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IT executives keen to learn how search engine giant Google is running its datacentres or curious to know how users' data – including YouTube videos and Google+ accounts – are stored and secured, now have an opportunity to ...
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Windows as a service Citrix helps SMEs cope with proliferation and remote support Citrix's position in an evolving and competitive market Virtual Microsoft Widows: A hostage to fortune? Budgets remain tight at enterprise end of market ...
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