Computerworld - Microsoft today said that Windows RT, the spin-off of Windows 8, has been completed and will power ARM processor-equipped tablets and PCs from Asus, Dell, Lenovo and Samsung. The Redmond, Wash. company had earlier ...
Simulating the Mars mission Computational curiosity Landing system IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week. Mars missions in the past have not had a great track record. But the landing ...
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Dell has dropped two places to fourth largest PC supplier in Western Europe as it strives to transform from PC manufacturer to services organisation. According to Gartner's latest PC shipment figures, a total of 13.6 million units were ...
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Network World-Linux operating system distributor Suse says it is gaining ground among cloud service providers as their choice platform for delivering the open source OS to customers,but at least one analyst says the market is still split ...
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Indian outsourcer Infosys Tuesday unveiled a package of services and technologies that aim to help companies deploying hybrid clouds. Fragmentation of enterprise workloads across technologies and services running on both private clouds ...
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Cloud provider opts for X-IO hybrid SSD arrays UK remote applications and telecoms provider RTW Hosting has implemented more than £600,000 worth of X-IO Hyper ISE and ISE 2 storage arrays to achieve a 2,471% IOPS performance ...
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HP has appointed consumer health firm Kimberly-Clark's CIO Ramón F.Baez(pictured)as its new senior vice-president and global chief information officer. Baez will start on 20 August and report to John Hinshaw,who is executive vice ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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IDG News Service-Box has received$125 million in funding,an infusion the company will use to boost its international expansion and strengthen its cloud-hosted enterprise collaboration,storage,file-sharing and content management software. ...
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New research from Computer Weekly and TechTarget has shown that attitudes towards server virtualisation within the European networking industry have changed. Last year's survey revealed the technology was viewed as a strain on networks ...
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Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organizations with large data centers will adopt. The prototype racks represent some of the ...
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Upgrading to Windows 7 is having little effect on IT departments' PC purchasing decisions Businesses are actively moving off Windows XP, as support for the legacy operating system (OS) is due to end in 2014. But, according to researcher ...
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UK chip maker ARM is expecting sales growth of 15% to £268m in its second quarter results, with profits up 23% to £66.5m, compared with the same quarter last year. The unaudited results from ARM, which provides most of Apple's ...
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In a special series,Fairfax Business Media Asia will be previewing speakers from the CIO Summit 2012. The debate on cloud computing should not be about private or public clouds but on the data centre,according to Raju Chellam,cloud ...
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Intel isn't actively porting Android to work on tablets based on the upcoming Atom chip code-named Clover Trail,which is purpose built for Microsoft's Windows 8,according to a source familiar with the company's plans. Initial tablets ...
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