MIPS Technologies hopes to challenge ARM in the market for high-end tablets and smartphones with an upcoming processor design it presented at the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley on Tuesday. MIPS is known for chips used in home ...
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It is almost time to dust off the castanets and pack for VMworld Europe 2012, taking place in Barcelona this year. Doors to the Fira Barcelona Gran Via venue, will open on 9-11 October for VMworld Europe attendees and exhibitors eager to ...
Hotel chain De Vere Group has outsourced its IT to a private cloud from IT services firm ANS Group, reducing its 18 rack hosted data cente to three, in a bid to cut hosting costs. ANS Group will implement a private cloud to manage and ...
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The Greater London Authority replaced its tape backup system with disaster recovery systems comprising FalconStor storage virtualisation and Nexsan disk-based backup infrastructure in time for the London Olympics. The project is estimated ...
SCO, the low-end Unix software vendor that sought to claim intellectual property rights over the popular open-source operating system Linux, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the first stage in its winding up and liquidation. Further ...
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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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Quick information: Deadline for submissions:Friday,September 14,2012. Date of announcement:Tuesday,October 9,2012 at 11:00 at the Breakout room C2 Basic qualifying criteria for nominations: IT projects directed by IT managers at ...
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Huddle co-founder and CEO Alastair Mitchell talks about the simplicity of cloud-based collaboration, the technology that came before, and resurrecting dead content. The application service provider (ASP) model was a buzz in the dot com ...
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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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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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When he joined Great Ormond Street Hospital as IT director three-and-a-half years ago,Mark Large was faced with immediate issues as the result of an ageing IT infrastructure. Staff were tied to their desks because there was not a viable ...
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The business arm of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Riba Enterprises, has rolled out an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform, which it estimates will save £100,000 over three years. The deal with managed services ...
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Budget-strapped IT shops often delay infrastructure and systems upgrades,but investments in more efficient data center hardware and software can result in significant cost savings and increased productivity. Barlow Robbins LLP ...
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European admins look forward to new capabilities in Windows Server 2012 and high-end features in the free version of Hyper-V 3.0, such as shared-nothing live migration. Hyper-V 3.0 will also include added capabilities for cloud computing, ...
A third of companies admit they have not invested in security for their virtual computing environments, a survey has revealed. This means many businesses are opening themselves up to the possibility of a serious and costly data breach, ...
Tags: security for virtual computing environments, Kaspersky, virtual servers