From datacentres down to USB keys, if it involves storage, I'll be looking at it.
Dell said on Tuesday it will acquire software-as-a-service (SaaS) company Boomi to boost its efforts in the cloud.Boomi's core service is to provide integration between on-premise applications and cloud-based ones.
Datacentre services provider TelecityGroup announced on Monday plans to expand its datacentre capacity within the UK.The co-location provider will add three megawatts (MW) of customer capacity power to its Harbour Exchange datacentre in London Docklands and will build a new 3.
Microsoft will build a major software development centre in Skolkovo, Russia's would-be Silicon Valley.Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive officer, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Vikto Vekselberg, the president of the Skolkovo Fund on Monday, the software maker said.
VMware and Google are set to release three collaborative technology projects to speed application development.At the SpringOne 2GX developer conference on Thursday, the two companies announced that three of their collaborative projects will be available within two weeks.
For some businesses, virtualisation is not a necessary prerequisite for a move into the cloud, VMware said on Wednesday. For those with legacy IT, it is nevertheless the "only way", according to VMware's regional head for the UK and Ireland, Mark Newton.
IT management-software company CA Technologies extended its CA Automation Suite on Monday, releasing two new products for configuration and process automation of a company's IT infrastructure.CA Configuration Automation is a tool that maps and describes the IT equipment in a business, how all that gear is related, and what external services the systems talk to.
Global technology company Hitachi signed an agreement with automobile battery maker Johnson Controls on Monday to pool their efforts on batteries and other fields of advanced energy storage.Under the agreement the companies will work together on research and development, procurement, production, marketing, sales and standardisation on lithium-ion batteries and other energy storage technologies.
IBM extended the compatibility of its CloudBurst private cloud product on Wednesday by making it compatible with IBM's own proprietary Power7 systems.The CloudBurst products, launched in June 2009, are a set of integrated hardware, storage, virtualisation and networking products with built-in management systems for setting up private clouds.
The US federal government has twice the number of datacentres it originally thought it had, a public memorandum has shown.In February 2010, the federal government's chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, issued a memorandum that said it had 1,100 datacentres, up from 432 in 1998.
There are three core stages in virtualising a company's IT, VMware said on Tuesday at its VMworld 2010 conference in Copenhagen.VMware's chief marketing officer Rick Jackson said that a company will go through three core stages of virtualisation.
A freely available Trojan has been circulated that steals passwords stored within Firefox, Internet Explorer and the Windows Registry, security company Webroot reported last Wednesday.The Trojan, which Webroot named Trojan-PWS-Nslog, modified a core Firefox file — nsLoginManagerPrompter.
Yahoo has embarked on a major new datacentre project, the search and web service provider announced on Thursday.The datacentre, due to be based in Avenches, Switzerland, will see Yahoo redevelop a manufacturing packaging plant into a major European hub for the company.
Google gave its URL shortening service goo.gl a standalone site on Thursday, allowing users to input and shorten links.
A variety of popular applications for the Android mobile operating system have been found to reveal user data to advertisers, it was announced on Wednesday.The study, conducted by Intel Labs, Penn State and Duke University, used an application developed for the project named TaintDroid to analyse how private user information was obtained and released by apps downloaded to the Android phones.
Google on Wednesday announced that Gmail users are going to receive the option to turn the mail service's threaded conversational view off.Gmail currently amalgamates all the replies to a message into one single thread, which it calls a Conversation View.