Data Center

Tue, November 17, 2009 - It's easy to set up a virtual machine on your PC, creating a machine within a machine, using free desktop virtualization software from VMware. Here's a look at the advantages, plus instructions.

Tue, November 17, 2009 - Sanyo Electric has delayed a planned increase in production of solar cells, citing poor market conditions.

Mon, November 16, 2009 - Is a data center near the North Pole naughty or nice? With cheap energy, cheap cooling and incentives to spur its ailing economy, Iceland has growing appeal to data-intensive companies running scads of servers.

Mon, November 16, 2009 - Hewlett-Packard on Monday announced a pair of servers aimed at companies that want to build large-scale computing clusters while maximizing data center space.

Mon, November 16, 2009 - Bigtime CIOs have endured a volatile year, and their wallets have felt the impact. The sour economy and politics involved have led to a huge drop in performance bonuses and rejiggered our annual list of high-paid technology leaders.

Mon, November 16, 2009 - The economy flattens compensation for top-earning IT execs, but new SEC reporting standards could sweeten future negotiations.

Fri, November 13, 2009 - The Environment Agency for England and Wales plans to halve the carbon dioxide emissions of its IT operations through a new outsourcing deal announced Friday.

Thu, November 12, 2009 - Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of networking gear vendor 3Com will unlock a major new market for the company, taking its growing rivalry with Cisco Systems to China, analysts said Thursday.

Wed, November 11, 2009 - A security researcher unveiled a new unpatched bug in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 that, when exploited, locks up the system, requiring a total shutdown to regain control.

Wed, November 11, 2009 - Fujitsu has unveiled a 10Gbps Ethernet switch designed to handle important applications in an energy efficient way.