Monthly Archives: April 2008
Gartner Debate: Does Green IT Matter?
LAS VEGAS-Is green IT anything more than a buzzword when it comes to producing real reductions in carbon emissions or significant cost savings?This was...
IBM Turns on Water to Cool Supercomputer
IBM is hoping a little water offers big improvements in cooling.At an event in San Francisco April 8, IBM unveiled its latest Power 575...
MySQL Focusing on Scalability for Web 2.0
While MySQL may not be supplanting proprietary databases in the enterprise, the people behind the open-source database see solving the scalability problems of Web...
Microsoft Integrates Security, Systems Management Tools
Microsoft on April 8 announced that it expects to bring a new level of consistency and integration to its disparate security tools when it...
Linux Partisans Gather at Linux Foundation’s Annual Meeting
AUSTIN, Texas-How do you herd cats? Well, as the famous EDS commercial shows, it isn't easy. In a sense, that's what the Linux Foundation,...
EMC Gains Consumer Division with Iomega Deal
SAN FRANCISCO-EMC had to increase its offer twice-from $178 million to $205.5 million to $213 million in cash-but it finally landed Iomega on April...
Chertoff Describes ‘Manhattan Project’ for Cyber-defenses
SAN FRANCISCO-Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff says the U.S. government is working on the equivalent of the "Manhattan Project" to defend federal networks...
New Microsoft OSes Hit by Patch Tuesday Shrapnel
Two of Microsoft's newest operating systems-Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008-are vulnerable to serious remote code execution attacks, according to a warning from the...
Motorola Rolls Out New WiMax Gear
With or without its mobile phone division, Motorola marches on with its WiMax rollout, introducing a new version of its 802.16e WAP 450 base...
JDA Ties Together Planning, Assortment, Analysis
Retailers looking to more efficiently use product attributes when planning what to sell have a new tool in the upgraded JDA Enterprise Planning Suite.Version...