Saturday | 6 September, 2008
Stories by: James Niccolai
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Surgient software creates 'self-service cloud' 04/09/2008 09:10:00
Surgient has renamed and updated its virtual lab automation software, which aims to relieve some of the burden on IT departments by allowing business units to set up their own virtual compute environments for internal projects like application development and testing. - +
HP launches product blitz for virtualization 03/09/2008 14:21:00
Hewlett-Packard has announced a broad sweep of new virtualization products along with survey results claiming that most businesses aren't making the most of what the technology has to offer. - +
China aims for petaflop computer in 2010 28/08/2008 10:06:00
China has stepped up investment in its homegrown Godson microprocessor and hopes to build its first petaflop-class supercomputer using the chip in 2010, one of the country's senior engineers said on Tuesday. - +
Fujitsu readies eight-core Sparc64 chip 27/08/2008 12:32:00
Fujitsu is developing an eight-core version of its Sparc64 processor, which should give a performance boost to the Sparc Enterprise Servers that Fujitsu jointly develops with Sun Microsystems. - +
Dell gains, Sun loses in worldwide server market 25/08/2008 11:34:00
Dell posted the biggest gains in worldwide server revenue in the second quarter, helping it to nudge Sun Microsystems out of third place, Gartner said. - +
Amazon adds persistent storage to compute cloud 22/08/2008 08:30:00
Amazon has rolled out a persistent storage feature for its EC2 Elastic Compute Cloud, which should allow developers to use its hosted computing services for a much broader range of applications. - +
Study shows glacial pace of IPv6 adoption 20/08/2008 07:50:00
A study this week has revealed just how slow is the rate of adoption for IPv6, the next version of the Internet's main communications protocol, and some experts say black markets where companies trade unused IP addresses may be only a few years away. - +
Yahoo on defensive at shareholder meeting 04/08/2008 08:56:57
Yahoo was criticized by some shareholders on Friday for the way it handled Microsoft's attempted acquisition, but in the end there were fewer fireworks at its annual meeting of stockholders than some had expected. - +
PC owners urged to manage power use and save money 04/08/2008 10:06:10
Businesses and home users can help the environment and save money at the same time by making better use of basic tools for desktop PC power management. - +
Facebook connects to the wider Web 24/07/2008 12:40:09
Facebook showed off a new service for its social networking site that will allow people to take their Facebook profile and use it on other sites around the Web. - +
HP to offer data center-in-a-box 17/07/2008 08:22:29
Hewlett-Packard became the latest vendor to announce a "mini-data center" housed in a shipping container, which can provide a way for companies to add compute capacity when power and cooling systems in their existing data centers are maxed out.
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Computerworld Live Podcast #97: The Future of Enterprise Networking 25/07/2008 09:45:36
This week CW Live chats with Mark Thompson, global sales and marketing manager for HP ProCurve, on the future of the enterprise networking. Mark discusses the trends we can expect to see in the near future and how the right infrastructure can ensure your enterprise network is secure. - +
Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future.
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