IBM is determined to show that the reports of the mainframe's death have much exaggerated. The company has just announced a mammoth release of ten new software products all designed to improve the performance and introduce cost efficiencies for IBM's System Z mainframe.
Fujitsu has launched a new desktop managed service (DMS). The company has developed the service to improve the flexibility of its storage offerings and to offer better value of money.
Tape is making its way back to the enterprise after a few years in the wilderness claimed an Overland Storage executive.
Businesses are failing to address the problem of assessing the costs of running the data centre making it near impossible to assess costing according to a senior analyst.
It took some time to arrive but Parallels has entered new territory with the launch of its bare metal hypervisor. Parallels Server Bare Metal is aimed squarely at cloud computing providers enabling them to offer a range of new services to their customers.
Businesses should recognise the different types of cloud computing before they embark on a cloud project. That's according to Forrester Research, which has just produced a report looking at the types of cloud technology that are available.
T-Mobile has teamed up with Chinese tech company Huawei to offer the first Android-powered handset to Europe.
Network management company Spiceworks has launched a new version of its software offering users the ability to draw network maps and introducing a number of third-party applications based on the company's public API.
YouTube users looking for videos for current pre-teen favourites Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers got a nasty surprise.The Google-owned video sharing site had been hit by some 5,000 videos from Japanese bulletin board 4Chan.
It's the law of unintended consequences. Microsoft's launch Vista was the best recruiter for Linux on the desktop according to a senior IBM executive.
Nearly three-quarters of European data centre managers are concerned about the impact that environmental regulation could have on data centres - although 60 percent of companies now have green data centre policies in place.
European companies are not being pressed to accelerate IPv6 deployment according to the European Internet registry.
Citrix has launched a virtualised version of its NetScaler MPX product, an offering that a company executive has described as a "game changer".
Users are paying little attention to some of the downsides of virtualisation in their haste to reap the benefits that the technology can bring.
The drive towards virtualisation has meant that there's a been a growing interest in thin clients as the front end. When Paul Maritz, the CEO of Vmware starts talking publicly about the emergence of the 'software mainframe', the realisation is that clients are about to get even thinner.