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Viruses find easy pickings in China
News Half of the infected machines had suffered data losses, problems browsing the Web, or other damage, the newspaper said. China added 12 million new Internet users in the first six months of this year, pushing its total to more than 45 million...
[October 10, 2002, 10:41]
Coming Soon: Exhibition and Conference dates
News PDM'97 (Product Data management seminar), National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham; Martin Davies 0113-245 2288, fax 0113-246 8492 October: Mobile Data Comms '97, Earls Court 2, London; Reed Exhibitions, Chris Comer 0181-381 2442
[December 3, 1996, 8:49]
2007: The year's photo highlights
News Sun has committed heavily this year to the concept of recreating a data centre in a portable container — ideal for disaster-recovery situations where the original data centre or storage network has become unavailable.
[December 31, 2007, 14:33]
IBM extends WebSphere's back-end reach
News The new product includes an administration console to better visualise servers in a data centre, to help in balancing the computing load across different machines. BEA Systems, an IBM rival in application server software, signed an agreement with...
[June 24, 2004, 8:50]
Will the real Linux users please stand?
News We believe Linux is ready for the data centre. It's time to push hard at the data centre. IDC released new server operating system data earlier this week that showed Linux running a close second to Microsoft's NT Server, in terms of number of units...
[August 11, 2000, 12:16]
Virtualisation means more time at the console
Blog But while virtualisation software vendors talk blithely about data centre orchestration, if you're a small or medium-sized business with scant IT resource to throw around, don't imagine that the savings from virtualising servers and desktops will...
[September 3, 2009, 11:13]
HP takes open-source route into software market
News Instead, it chose to focus on its OpenView management software business and its Utility Data Centre software. HP discontinued Utility Data Centre, which aims to automatically manage computing resources efficiently, earlier this year.
[November 12, 2004, 8:05]
Microsoft issues DNS poisoning advisory
News The issue affects Windows Server 2003 (standard, enterprise and data centre editions), Windows 2000 Server (also the advanced and data centre versions) and Windows NT Server 4.0 standard edition, Microsoft said in its advisory.
[April 8, 2005, 9:55]
CERN steps up to massive storage challenge
News In short, this means that CERN's scientists have an awful lot of data on their hands. They use computers to filter the events down to a few hundred "good" events per second, but even this can generate between 100 and 1,000 megabytes of data per...
[September 6, 2006, 10:50]
3G data: the choice expands review
Reviews G data solution Although 3 has now signed up over a million customers in the UK, the lack of data services means that few of these are likely to be mobile professionals. Data services are provided by Vodafone, Orange, T-Mobile and, most recently, O2.
[November 3, 2004, 14:58]
Novell aims to support mission-critical cloud stacks
Blog If you believe that the data centre is currently undergoing an evolution then you may wish to dig deeper into this subject. Proponents of this type of tech say that the data centre is about to become more service driven.
[July 28, 2009, 13:34]
The march of Linux in the enterprise
News Based on a survey of 143 Data Centre Conference attendees in December 2003: percent indicated that Linux would affect their Unix investments in some way.percent said they expect Linux to consolidate or replace Unix.percent felt Linux would reduce...
[March 11, 2004, 13:45]
BT announces wind-farm scheme
News BT possesses considerable data-centre capacity, which creates much of its CO2 emissions. Many other technology suppliers, including Intel, Sun and IBM, are also trying to improve the efficiency of their energy use within the data centre and their...
[October 19, 2007, 13:50]
Gandi’s mantra for cloud computing
Blog But Gandi.net COO Joe White reckons that a high proportion of data centre servers - even in virtualised environments - still run at as little as 10-12% utilisation because data-centre managers allow a large fail-safe for peaks in load.
[August 2, 2009, 21:11]
Tips for managing IT facilities
News Emergency preparedness for natural or man-made disasters should be a basic part of general safety training for all personnel working inside a data centre. Major physical exposures common to a data centre
[June 6, 2005, 17:35]
UK police help fight outsourcing cybercrime
News The call centre worker in New Delhi also told the reporter he could supply confidential data from 200,000 accounts per month. The main aim of the working party will be to increase the cooperation between members of the commonwealth to exchange best...
[July 12, 2005, 18:45]
Colt's mobile plans still unclear
News The company is about to open a third data centre in Birmingham. The channels will be headed by small systems integrators and data distributors, including recently signed Rocom. Jemmett also stressed that Colt is trying to shift away from providing...
[March 2, 2007, 9:44]
Coming Soon: Exhibition and Conference dates
News PDM'97 (Product Data management seminar), National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham; Martin Davies 0113-245 2288, fax 0113-246 8492 October: Mobile Data Comms '97, Earls Court 2, London; Reed Exhibitions, Chris Comer 0181-381 2442
[November 25, 1996, 8:37]
MSBlast infects eight million PCs
News The Internet Storm Centre's Ullrich stressed that counts based on network sensors only see the data that goes outside a company's firewall. New data from Microsoft suggests that at least eight million Windows computers have been infected by the...
[April 5, 2004, 10:05]
Malware records banking passwords
News Even though all financial sites use encryption built into the browser to protect log-in data, the Trojan horse program can capture the information before it gets encrypted by the browser software. The browser does not encrypt data between your...
[June 30, 2004, 8:55]
