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Server hardware

• January 12, 2012 12 Jan'12

  Oracle study shows data demands drive new data centre installations

  Research from Oracle across 10 regions has found that an organisation's growth in data is becoming a boardroom issue.

• December 16, 2011 16 Dec'11

  Investment bank JP Morgan goes live with FPGA Maxeler supercomputer

  JP Morgan has gone live with a supercomputer for fixed income trading operations. The investment bank is using a Maxeler dataflow supercomputer for analysing and profiling intra-day trading risk.

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Cloud leaves many firewalls wanting – but could automation prove the silver bullet?

  Most companies rely on firewalls, but the IT landscape is changing and so must approaches to security. Is there a silver bullet?

• November 24, 2011 24 Nov'11

  How Experian is retro-fitting its datacentre to boost efficiency

  Experian's Fairham House datacentre in Nottingham uses blade servers, virtualisation and cold aisle containment to improve energy efficiency.

• November 16, 2011 16 Nov'11

  Thai floods could impact revenues and prices, says Dell

  Computer maker Dell says flooding in Thailand is causing a worldwide shortage of PC hard drives that will last into the first quarter of 2012 and could impact the company’s revenues.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  HP puts ARM at the heart of energy-efficient datacentres

  Hewlett-Packard has introduced a line of servers using the Calxeda EnergyCore ARM Cortex low-energy processors which it claims will enable datacentres to host 2,800 servers in a single rack.

• September 29, 2011 29 Sep'11

  The impact of the Olympics power drain on London-based datacentres

  Power shortages and costs are becoming an increasing concern for companies with datacentres in London as the Olympics approaches.

• July 28, 2011 28 Jul'11

  ElasticStack delivers cloud with SAN-resilient storage on commodity hardware

  Cloud platform provider ElasticStack has refined its software to deliver a cloud platform with resilient storage using low-cost commodity hardware...

• June 06, 2011 06 Jun'11

  Service providers battle to reduce carbon footprint as datacentres expand

  IT service providers are united in their attempt to reduce carbon footprints on paper, with corporate targets to support them, but despite putting a lot of energy into the cause, their power consumption is rising, according to a major benchmarking ...

• April 15, 2011 15 Apr'11

  Computer Weekly marks the end of an era as a new one begins

  The first issue of Computer Weekly magazine in 1966 marked the start of an era in the UK IT industry - the first ever weekly technology publication. This is the story of how it all began.

• April 11, 2011 11 Apr'11

  Manageability issues impede adoption of virtualisation

  Virtual infrastructure management challenges are hindering the adoption of virtualisation within businesses, according to research.

• January 21, 2011 21 Jan'11

  Rackspace launches system administrator app

  Rackspace has launched an app that allows a CIO or system administrator to dial up or take down servers and storage moment by moment.

• January 05, 2011 05 Jan'11

  BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry

  David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.

• June 01, 2007 01 Jun'07

  Sclavos's VeriSign departure leaves many questions unanswered

  Some industry observers say disagreements fueled his resignation, but others say Sclavos's abrupt departure revolved around his role in VeriSign's options accounting practices.

• March 22, 2007 22 Mar'07

  Midrange storage array specifications

  Product snapshots highlighting key specifications for a cross section of midrange storage array products.

• February 26, 2007 26 Feb'07

  HP acquires clustered file system software maker PolyServe

  HP announced its intent to acquire clustered file system maker PolyServe.

• February 14, 2007 14 Feb'07

  Cancer clinic juggles two-tiered storage environments

  Karmanos Cancer Institute is using two separate tiered storage systems from EMC and Sun, and says it has yet to find a single storage vendor that can meet all its requirements.

• February 05, 2007 05 Feb'07

  Does it cost extra for unified storage?

  For a lot of NAS-based systems -- even Windows Storage Server (WSS) with an iSCSI target unified storage capability is probably...

• October 23, 2006 23 Oct'06

  QLogic dives into directors

  QLogic will announce its new SanBox 9000 director this week, but it's missing true director-class features and is encroaching on a market already dominated by Brocade and Cisco.

• January 17, 2005 17 Jan'05

  'Benevolent' NT4 patches a surprise to some

  Microsoft's first security bulletins of the new year included fixes for the now-unsupported Windows NT Server 4.0. On a related note, administrators are cautioned to apply one of January's patches in a specific order to avoid problems.

• October 26, 2004 26 Oct'04

  IBM sharpens blades

  IBM has announced new management tools and upgraded models of its HS20 and JS20 blade servers.

• September 27, 2004 27 Sep'04

  Five steps to using the Kerberos protocol

  This excerpt from "Windows Server 2003 security infrastructures" explains the basic Kerberos protocol as it is defined in RFC 1510.

• August 24, 2001 24 Aug'01

  HP gambles on Itanium

  A top Hewlett-Packard executive has signalled his company's commitment to Intel Itanium processor in perhaps the strongest terms...