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Gartner: IT bosses must prepare for cloud computing

News The analyst says IT managers must start planning now if they want to avoid implementing tech from Google and closing down their own datacentres [09 May 2008]

Analysts claim improved reliability for Linux servers

News Yankee Group research suggests Linux distributions for servers now see less downtime than Windows Server 2003 [16 Apr 2008]

BMC to buy BladeLogic for £398m

News The acquisition will fill out BMC's systems-management portfolio with BladeLogic's configuration-management tools for datacentres [17 Mar 2008]

No fix until June for Windows Home Server flaw

News The Windows Home Server team has announced that the official patch for a data-corruption issue discovered in December last year will not be available until June [11 Mar 2008]

Virtualisation not key driver for Server 2008 adoption

News Microsoft's hypervisor technology comes close to the bottom of the list of reasons for adopting the company's new server platform, a ZDNet.co.uk survey reveals [29 Feb 2008]

CIOs give Windows Server 2008 a cautious welcome

News Half of a CIO user panel have said they plan to move to the OS at their next refresh or upgrade cycle, but others were more cautious [29 Feb 2008]

London losing lustre as data-centre destination

Analysis High lease prices, limited space and a lack of power may be combining to make the capital increasingly unattractive as a data-centre location [28 Feb 2008]

Analysts: Windows Server 2008 will please users

Analysis Microsoft has listened to users, with many tweaks to its latest server OS making for a significant improvement over its predecessor, say analysts [27 Feb 2008]

MetaRam: Putting terabytes of memory into servers

MetaRam: Putting terabytes of memory into servers

Case Study MetaRam has a chip that lets you put more memory into your server fairly cheaply — and it has a cavalcade of server celebrities behind it [26 Feb 2008]


Have your say about Windows Server 2008

News Help us sort the marketing hype from the genuinely new and useful and you could win an iPod Nano [25 Feb 2008]

HP BladeSystem c3000

HP BladeSystem c3000

Review HP's BladeSystem c3000 is a compact blade server chassis designed for small businesses and remote office deployments. It delivers all the advantages of HP's high-end blade system in a smaller chassis. [22 Feb 2008]


Four Windows Server 2008 storage improvements

Feature Microsoft is making a number of major improvements to the server's underlying storage mechanisms with its latest release [18 Feb 2008]

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Terrorism, floods and the DIY data centre

Terrorism, floods and the DIY data centre

Case Study Getting the right IT centre for HSBC's large and expanding business led the financial-services giant to develop its own custom-designed facility [15 Feb 2008]


HP releases latest Integrity blades

HP releases latest Integrity blades

News HP Integrity BL870c is intended for use by organisations looking to pack power and a lot of memory into not too much space [12 Feb 2008]


Flexing US muscle in supercomputing

Flexing US muscle in supercomputing

Q&A The US is still number-one in the world in high-performance computing. IBM's Dave Turek discusses whether it can maintain its current domination [29 Jan 2008]


Lenovo to make and sell IBM xServers

News Resellers are expressing doubts over the move, claiming they might go elsewhere if they can't get the IBM badge [25 Jan 2008]

Dell unveils PowerEdge blade server

Dell unveils PowerEdge blade server

News The PowerEdge M-Series server boasts a new chassis and blade design, and updated connectivity options [22 Jan 2008]


FalconStor Continuous Data Protection Virtual Appliance

FalconStor Continuous Data Protection Virtual Appliance

Review This is a powerful system that enables server administrators to very quickly restore data that may have been lost due to viruses, user error or hardware failure. [18 Jan 2008]


UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled

News The £113m Hector supercomputer is the largest and most advanced in the UK, making 63 trillion calculations a second [15 Jan 2008]

Intel unveils SME server building blocks

News The company has launched a set of modular-server building blocks for OEMs and resellers to incorporate into servers designed for SMEs [14 Jan 2008]

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Tales of the rising Sun

Feature Who would have guessed meetings held in the parking lot of the local McDonald's formed an integral part of the founding of one of computing's giants? more

From IBM server architecture to the Xbox

Feature Frank Soltis is known as the father of the IBM AS400, but what is less well known is that the Xbox 360 is another of his babies more

Planning a power-management strategy

Feature The preservation and conservation of energy should be a priority for all IT infrastructure planners more

Drilling into dual core

Feature Dual Core Special Report Part 1: The development of multi-core chips will have repercussions on hardware design, performance and most importantly, software licensing more

Whiteboard: The real cost of blades

Video Blade servers offer density, flexibility and versatility, and soon they could be affordable more