August 2011

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Datacentre services supplier Equinix gives its top three tips for apprenticeship selection

  Equinix, provides datacentre services, operating 90 datacentres worldwide, and is taking on two apprentices on 5 September in a four-year "Electrotechnical" programme to grow the team.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  HP to manufacture one last run of Touchpad tablets before winding down WebOS division

  HP is to manufacture one last run of its Touchpad tablet, following HP's decision to wind down its WebOS hardware and concentrate on an enterprise software strategy.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Oracle countersues HP over Itanium partnership

  Oracle has responded to a lawsuit by Hewlett-Packard over servers based on the Itanium chip with a suit of its own.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Colossus rebuilder and National Museum of Computing founder Tony Sale dies aged 80

  Tony Sale, co-founder of the National Museum of Computing and visionary who led the team that rebuilt Colossus, the world's first modern computer, has died at the age of 80.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Sage uses Amazon for SalesLogix CRM private cloud

  Sage has introduced a cloud-based customer relationship management system on the Amazon EC2 cloud.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Women in IT are paid more than men at junior level for the first time

  Women in junior roles in the IT sector are being paid more than men in the same job for the first time, according to research.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Government seeks single supplier for £240m smart meter programme contract

  The Department of Energy and Climate Change is looking for a single supplier to provide IT services to support its GB Smart Metering Implementation Programme (SMIP) with a contract worth up to £240m.  Continue Reading

• August 31, 2011 31 Aug'11

  Salesforce.com to debut HTML5 mobile website at Dreamforce 2011 conference

  Salesforce.com will unveil an HTML5-based mobile website to allow customers to access applications via touch-screen tablet and mobile devices at its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  Top Manufacturing IT Spend Growth - Monthly Forecast

  Whilst IT spend growth is expected to hardly change in September 2011 compared with August for all manufacturers, the top growing manufacturing sectors will see advancement. The highest spend ...  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  A sneak peek at Avamar vCloud Protector

  EMC has used VMware2011 to show off a new backup tool, Avamar vCloud Protector, which offers new and advanced ways to backup virtual machines.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  Turbine powered Batmobile up for sale on eBay

  If you have a spare $620,000 under your pillow then this Boeing-powered machine could be yours. Just imagine. It comes with an on-board iPad, loaded with digital avionics which help monitor the jet ...  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  Jawbone Icon HD: Now multi-purpose

  Jawbone have announced the New Icon HD headset and it's more than just your usual Bluetooth hands-free. I actually own a Jawbone Icon and it is an excellent Bluetooth headset, it is small, ...  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  Corporate sustainability strategy: now part of the CFO's remit

  Sometimes it seems as if corporate responsibility within the organisation for sustainability strategy is being passed around like a relay baton. Now, according to an Ernst & Young report, it is ...  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  VMWare puts Windows in a browser

  At this year's VMWorld, VMWare is killing off desktop computing. Well, it is at least trying to convince the world, that thin client virtual desktop infrastructure is the way forward. There have ...  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  Easy installations for vCenter and VMware Update Manager

  Installing vCenter and VMware Update Manager (VUM) for vSphere5 need not always be a manual process. Automate the deployment of the two core services for your VMware environment.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  Fibre Channel over IP: What it is and what it’s used for

  Fibre Channel over IP bundles Fibre Channel frames into IP packets and can be a cost-sensitive solution to link remote fabrics where no dark fibre exists between sites.  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  Philanthropy and altruism in software programming

  For some reason I've been spending an unhealthy amount of time looking at instances of software deprecation recently. As readers will know, this is the process by which certain features are left in ...  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  Data analysis, how to get started

  How and when does an organization get started with data analysis? Should it reach a certain maturity level to implement data analysis?  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  Caffeine addiction draws thousands to new London website

  Online entrepreneur Alasdair Monk has attracted more than 40,000 visitors to his new website in just two weeks with the promise of a productive caffeine fix Inspired by a map of Wi-Fi hotspots at ...  Continue Reading

• August 30, 2011 30 Aug'11

  13-mile tribute for Steve Jobs

  Joseph Tame, a media producer and presumably big Apple fan, paid tribute to former CEO Steve Jobs by running a half marathon in the shape of the companies world famous logo. By running a very ...  Continue Reading