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Greenpeace Calls Out HP for Backtracking on Toxics Usage

Greenpeace activists snuck past Hewlett-Packard security guards July 28 to paint a large "Hazardous Products" sign on the roof of the IT system maker's...

IBM’s Proposed Acquisition of SPSS Puts Oracle, SAP, SAS on Notice

IBM's proposed $1.2 billion acquisition of SPSS is the most significant piece in the puzzle-at least since the Cognos purchase in 2007-in the vendor's...

Emerson Previews State-of-the-Art, Energy-Efficient Data Center

Emerson Previews State-of-the-Art, Energy-Efficient Data Center by Chris PreimesbergerPhotos by Mark Berry No Title The started-from-scratch data center is located in the suburbs of St. Louis, Mo....

rPath’s rBuilder 5 Streamlines Linux Virtual Machine Management

With its rBuilder 5.2.1, rPath aims to streamline the deployment and maintenance of application workloads by providing IT organizations with the tools to roll...

EMC Profits Fall 43%

Storage giant EMC, which had enjoyed double-digit profits for 21 quarters up until this year, reported July 23 that it lost ground in the...

How UCSB Grad Students Put Cloud Computing Power into Ubuntu

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- A National Science Foundation grant project developed largely by graduate students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has resulted...

HP Takes Data Center Transformation Services on the Road

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-Three years ago, Hewlett-Packard officials announced an ambitious data center consolidation plan that would reduce the number of facilities worldwide from 85 to...

How to Maximize Performance and Utilization of Your Virtual Infrastructure

Organizations today are rapidly virtualizing their infrastructures. In doing so, they are experiencing a whole new set of systems management challenges. These challenges cannot...

VMware Profits Down 36.5% but Execs Optimistic for Rest of 2009

Enterprise virtualization software kingpin VMware on July 22 reported a 36.5 percent falloff in its second-quarter profit from the same period a year ago,...

Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 Released to Manufacturing

Microsoft announced the release of both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to manufacturing on July 22.The two platforms represent a major part...