• Researchers claim 100-fold increase in data storage speed

  By Tim Greene | 09 February, 2012 03:29

  European researchers may have found a way to speed up data storage 100-fold, breaking one barrier holding back how fast data can be transferred.

• iPad 3 rumour rollup for the week of February 7

  By John Cox | 09 February, 2012 02:23

  Even as the Patriots' hopes and dreams were strangled in the Super Bowl, the iOSsphere rumours for iPad 3 mounted anew on wings like eagles.

• Why one insurance company ditched its own hardware- for a cloud -based SAN

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 February, 2012 01:29

  Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

• VMware makes it easier to wholesale Clouds

  By Tim Greene | 08 February, 2012 07:33

  VMware has introduced a new software platform that makes it easier for service providers to wholesale their cloud-services infrastructure to other providers.

• The rise of Node.js: JavaScript graduates to the server

  By Paul Krill | 07 February, 2012 22:11

  Although it is just three years old, Node.js is gaining traction as an application development platform, letting developers extend JavaScript beyond the browser and into servers. But questions remain about JavaScript's appropriateness on servers and developers' readiness to use it.

• Hands-on review: Xoom battles iPad 2 to a draw

  By Wayne Rash | 16 March, 2011 05:44

  We got our hands on the two hottest products in the tablet computing market -- the Motorola Xoom and the iPad 2 and put them to the test. This was a 15-round heavyweight fight and in the end, the Xoom stood toe to toe with the reigning champ, iPad 2.

• Rackspace, Dell push OpenStack cloud OS

  By Julie Bort | 09 March, 2011 03:31

  Rackspace will help enterprises build private clouds using the OpenStack cloud operating system, the company announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, Dell is seeking enterprises and service providers for proof-of-concept OpenStack trials with its Dell PowerEdge C family of servers.

• Android 3.0 tablet: Five key features

  By Brad Reed | 28 January, 2011 03:36

  Tablet application developers can rejoice now that Google has released its software development kit for Android 3.0, the new edition of the platform designed specifically for tablets.

• Burning questions: Virtualisation

  By Jon Brodkin | 26 October, 2010 00:52

  Virtualizing x86 infrastructure isn't just a one-step process -- as servers change, the whole data center must change as well. While server hypervisors such as VMware's ESX, Microsoft's Hyper-V and Xen can make IT more efficient and cost-effective, many of the virtualization advantages can be canceled out when data centers rely on technology and processes that haven't been updated for the virtualization age.

• Mainframe sect tackles new roles, old stereotypes

  By Ann Bednarz | 06 August, 2010 10:41

  IBM's new mainframe is on display at this week's SHARE conference in Boston, a testament to the relevancy of the big iron in today's enterprise IT environments. Amid the excitement over IBM's mainframe makeover, however, IT pros are concerned about the availability of skilled professionals who know how to run it.

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