Gartner shares data center efficiency secrets
Power consumption at data centers is once again in the spotlight, after analyst house Gartner came up with a list of best practices in the data center, designed to save electricity and improve cooling.
Stories by Tom Jowitt
Ancient IBM drive rescues Apollo moon data
Valuable mission data gathered by NASA's Apollo missions to the moon forty years ago looks like it may be recovered thanks to a donation of an ancient IBM tape drive by a Sydney computer society.
Avanade offers data centre ROI calculator
Microsoft integrator Avanade has developed a tool that will assist organizations looking to measure the ROI (return on investment) that can be achieved when optimizing their data centers.
Plasmon reborn with simplified archiving offering
New life has been breathed into Plasmon, after the company confirmed that it has successfully completed a private equity buyout that should secure the archiving side of the business.
Citrix previews Project Kensho kit
Citrix has released a technical preview of a toolkit that allows developers to create portable virtual machine (VM) appliances across a number of platforms.
Opera promises faster surfing with new browser
Opera Software, which is battling hard for market share with Google's Chrome, is promising users a faster surfing experience, an improved email client, and better browser-synchronisation capabilities, with the latest version of its browser launched last week.
Companies own up to virtual security blind spot
The vast majority of companies have little or no security in place for their virtual systems. That is a scary statistic revealed in a survey of attendees at the recent VMWorld 2008 conference in Las Vegas.
Veeam warns over virtual server sprawl
Virtualization systems management startup Veeam Software is warning that organizations are underestimating the costs associated with virtual machine sprawl.
Virtualization users should expect more attacks
VMware's recent release of a large number of patches for its virtualization offerings is likely to be the first of many, as hackers increasingly focus their attention on virtualized environments.
Virtualization causes disaster recovery rethink
There has been a "significant increase" in the number of organizations rethinking their disaster recovery (DR) plans because of virtualization, according to Symantec, in its fourth annual IT Disaster Recovery survey.
Scandal as UK crime domain sold to German
The now-defunct UK government agency responsible for investigating computer crime, the NHTCU, no longer owns its domain name after it was sold to an enterprising German internet marketer.
Technology replaces buried cable with fiber
A company is offering a unique and less-invasive cable replacement technology, which could prove useful for carriers looking to replace their aging copper infrastructure with fiber, without incurring the cost and disruption of digging up the old cabling.
Security set to move beyond IT director control
Security professionals are set to move beyond IT director control in future, as they take a more proactive approach in order to secure their organizations, according to a study from the Information Security Forum (ISF).
Study finds huge rise in malware this year
Malware has risen by a staggering 278 percent in the first half of 2008, thanks in part to the large number of websites comprised last month, so says a new study by ScanSafe. And it warns that things are only going to get worse, especially after Dan Kaminsky goes public with details about his 20 year-old DNS vulnerability.
Touchpaper questions IT readiness for EuroSOX
Asset management company Touchpaper has released a white paper examining the impact on European companies of the EU's version of the Sarbanes-Oxley act.