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VMware touts 'mainframe 2.0'

VMware touts 'mainframe 2.0'

Software that lets organisations turn their existing IT infrastructure into a computing 'cloud' has been unveiled by virtualisation specialist VMware.
Ian Grayson Sep 17 2008 9:15AM Software
Secure Computing buys Securify for US$15M

Secure Computing buys Securify for US$15M

Enterprise security firm Secure Computing has announced plans to purchase Securify, provider of identity-based network monitoring solutions.
Dan Raywood Sep 5 2008 10:03AM Security
Energy level probe could speed quantum computing's advent

Energy level probe could speed quantum computing's advent

A newly developed technique of characterising artificial atoms could speed the development of quantum computers.
Liz Tay Sep 5 2008 6:56AM Hardware
Microsoft reveals Live Mesh for mobiles

Microsoft reveals Live Mesh for mobiles

Microsoft has briefly peeled back the covers on mobile integration in its Live Mesh platform with a short demonstration at Tech Ed 2008.
Ry Crozier Sep 3 2008 12:57PM Software
ISO20K skills in demand from Aussie CIOs

ISO20K skills in demand from Aussie CIOs

Vendor-agnostic IT best practice certifications are in demand from prospective CIOs in their MBA programmes, a lecturer at Charles Sturt University says.
Ry Crozier Aug 20 2008 6:01AM Strategy
Dell 'Cloud Computing' trademark rejected

Dell 'Cloud Computing' trademark rejected

Dell's application to trademark "Cloud Computing" has apparently been shot down by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
Egan Orion Aug 19 2008 7:28AM Storage
Cloud computing hot topic at Gartner Security Summit

Cloud computing hot topic at Gartner Security Summit

In the lead up to next month’s conference, Gartner’s local security analyst reveals data security and cloud computing will be hot topics at this year’s Security Summit.
Negar Salek Aug 18 2008 3:18PM Security
Common IT processes to land you in court

Common IT processes to land you in court

Embedded metadata, cloud computing and automated back-up schedules stand to implicate IT managers in lawsuits, a leading computer forensics expert has warned.
Ry Crozier Aug 14 2008 6:01AM Storage
Emerging countries to take spam lead

Emerging countries to take spam lead

The majority of the world's spam continued to be sent from the US during the second quarter of 2008 but experts predict it won’t be long till developing nations take the lead.
Negar Salek Aug 7 2008 4:28PM Security
IBM to open Amazon EC2-style cloud service

IBM to open Amazon EC2-style cloud service

IBM will look to open up its internal Research Compute Cloud to the public as an Amazon EC2 service clone.
Ry Crozier Aug 7 2008 3:08PM Networking
Weak hypervisors push customers to mainframe, IBM says

Weak hypervisors push customers to mainframe, IBM says

Cloud computing has emerged as the next evolution for grid architectures. At least part of the early success of the cloud model is due to virtualisation – and mainframe makers like IBM still claim bragging rights for creating the hypervisor. iTnews sat down with IBM Fellow for Server Design, Jim Rymarczyk, to pry into Big Blue’s plans in the cloud.
Ry Crozier Aug 7 2008 3:03PM Hardware
Emerging countries to take spam lead

Emerging countries to take spam lead

The majority of spam is currently sent from the US but experts predict it won’t be long till developing nations take the lead.
Negar Salek Aug 7 2008 12:09PM Security
EMC faces cloud computing 'frienemies'

EMC faces cloud computing 'frienemies'

As some of the fog surrounding the elusive cloud computing phenomenon evaporates, vendors are fast moving into the emerging territory.
Liz Tay Jul 28 2008 1:30PM Software
Secure Computing warns Olympic Fever could impact your network

Secure Computing warns Olympic Fever could impact your network

The 2008 Beijing Olympics are nearly upon us. And for the first time employees will be able to watch the games via live streaming through a local host – Channel Seven will be streaming over 100 hours of footage from the Games via Yahoo!7.
Dylan Bushell-Embling Jul 4 2008 1:18PM Security
Light-emitting particles to support new form of computing

Light-emitting particles to support new form of computing

U.S. physicists are using particles called excitons to develop transistors that could be better suited to fast communication.
Staff Writers Jun 20 2008 2:57PM Hardware
Melbourne to host Australia's largest supercomputer

Melbourne to host Australia's largest supercomputer

The State of Victoria has invested $100 million in an effort to build Australia’s largest supercomputer and the world’s largest life sciences supercomputer facility.
Liz Tay Jun 19 2008 4:30PM Hardware
HP introduces mission critical computing blade server

HP introduces mission critical computing blade server

HP has today announced what it called the industry's first high-availability, fault tolerant blade server, explaining that the advanced functionality came at a low price and with added green credentials.
Jun 17 2008 3:49PM Networking
EMC backs research into cloud computing

EMC backs research into cloud computing

Storage firm EMC has joined the Daoli Trusted Infrastructure Project which conducts research into "trust and assurance" in cloud computing environments..
Ian Williams Jun 17 2008 8:46AM Hardware
Nvidia touts parallel computing

Nvidia touts parallel computing

Nvidia has become a founding member of Stanford University's Pervasive Parallelism Lab..
Clement James May 1 2008 11:06PM Hardware
Enterprises must ditch silo computing

Enterprises must ditch silo computing

Organisations are moving from traditional hierarchies based on command and control to looser structures requiring collaboration and team work, according to a study by research firm Butler Group..
Guy Dixon Apr 30 2008 3:15PM Storage

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