The processing power of grid computing will be used by University College London (UCL) this year to develop treatments that could be more effective in the treatment of people with HIV.
More than one-third of chief information officers believe that in two to five year's time, their datacentres will be unable to meet the rapidly growing demand for business services and applications, according to research commissioned by Hewlett-Packard.
Today's Budget contained little that will have an immediate impact on IT departments but in the longer term fallout from it could hit software research and push up the cost of datacentres...
Expectations for change are high, and ICT services need to be extremely quick off the mark to meet them. We need to be able to mix and match services, in real time, to serve up the right resources in all the right places, at the right time, in this dynamic and volatile business environment.
It would seem that all leading firms in the IT arena are clamouring right now to establish their green and environmentally friendly credentials to today’s and tomorrow’s’ purchasers of essential IT such as servers and other devices that go into datacentres.