Stories about: Provision

Managing disk storage was once simple: If we needed more space, we got a bigger disk drive. But data storage needs grew, so we started adding multiple disk drives. Finding and managing these became harder and took more time, so we developed RAID, network-attached storage and storage-area networks. Still, managing and maintaining thousands of disk drives became an ever more onerous task.

There's an age-old choice in IT -- whether to adopt a "best of breed" strategy for the power and flexibility it can bring, or go with a single vendor for accountability and simplicity. J. Craig Venter Institute Inc. (JCVI) believes in best of breed. The genomic research company runs Linux, Unix, Windows and Mac OS in its data center. For storage, it draws on technology from EMC, NetApp, Isilon, DataDomain and Symantec.

When buying IT products and services, the best price can often be trumped by the best deal.

IBM opened up cloud computing centers in four countries on Wednesday to let enterprises, universities and governments test Web-based services and applications.

Management vendor Quest Software Friday said it had acquired NetPro, a competitor that also offers tools to manage Microsoft infrastructure environments.

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.

Google will dump a section of the licensing agreement for its new Chrome browser after some Internet users objected to its copyright implications.

The future of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) will be decided on November 26 when the deadline for proposals will close.

Heathrow’s T5 software testing issues have highlighted the importance of software testing, I hope that lessons have been learnt and that CIO’s across the world will take note in the future.

Integrating enterprise communication tools -- from telephony to e-mail, conferencing and instant messaging -- is the key to delivering a richer collaboration environment that increases productivity. But deployment and management of unified communications systems can be daunting.

Microsoft on Monday released the first service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5 programming framework, offering improvements for building client, Web, and data-driven applications.