CIO Communications/Networking

AMD's new plan: a four-socket server for the price of a two-way

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:50:00 GMT

Intel's old rival plans include end to four-way 'tax'

Perennial challenger to Intel in microprocessors AMD has a new plan to entice buyers: put four-way servers in the same price bracket as two-way servers today when it launches its Opteron 'Maranello' platform later this month (full story here).

IBM offers software development in the cloud

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:35:00 GMT

Testing and infrastructure as a service

IBM will soon offer software development and testing services through its public cloud, adding to a private cloud option launched in June 2009, the company said.

VMware launches Windows 7-compatible version of ThinApp

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:45:00 GMT

Legacy apps run in virtual containers

VMware has upgraded its ThinApp application virtualisation software in order to incorporate support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2, according to a company blog. ThinApp 4.5, which VMware is calling the most significant application virtualisation update since its debut in 2008.

Fujitsu server aimed at cloud computing

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:16:00 GMT

Primergy CX1000 servers to reduce costs in cloud infrastructure

Fujitsu is rolling out a new server designed specially for cloud computing providers.

Internet Explorer 9 puts Microsoft back on top, says analyst

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Support for HTML 5 shows Microsoft is serious

Microsoft is back in the browser race, an analyst said today after the company unveiled a rough developer's preview of its next browser, IE9.

McAfee scans the clouds for security flaws

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:05:00 GMT

Cloud Secure to give customers more confidence in cloud provider

McAfee announced a vulnerability-assessment scanning service that's aimed at giving cloud-computing service providers a way to provide security assurances to their customers.

Banks offered tool that searches customer PCs for malware

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:15:00 GMT

Trusteer lets bankers remotely investigate account holders

Security vendor Trusteer's latest product will allow banks to remotely investigate their customers' computers if it is suspected the PC has been hacked.

Wales houses mega datacentre

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:59:00 GMT

Newport site has room for 19,000 server racks

One of the world's largest data centres has opened for business in the UK, protected by bomb-proof glass and powered by enough electricity to run a small city.

IT industry launches pre-election Technology Manifesto

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:35:00 GMT

Aiming to create 250,000 new IT jobs

A new Technology Manifesto has been launched which calls for for the government to create tax incentives to encourage the IT sector in the UK to grow and make 250,000 new IT jobs available over the next 10 years.

IBM - software security vulnerabilities down in 2009

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:17:00 GMT

SQL injections and ActiveX exploits show biggest drop

IBM's X-Force 2009 Trend and Risk report shows an 11 per cent drop in discovered vulnerabilities compared to 2008, including a decline in the largest categories like SQL Injections and ActiveX.

Ex Barclays coder goes down for TK Maxx hack

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:07:00 GMT

Humza Zaman gets four years for part in hack of TK Maxx parent

A former Barclays Bank programmer who helped launder money for the mastermind behind the data thefts at TJX Companies and other retailers, was sentenced to four years in prison by a federal court in Boston.

Intel funds social media incubator Betaworks

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:47:00 GMT

Chip giant wants insight into user behaviour

Intel invested an undisclosed amount in social media incubator Betaworks to gain insight into real-time user behaviour on social networks.

Microsoft targets NetSuite users with new deal

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:40:00 GMT

US customers offered an $850 credit for each user who switches to Dynamics

Microsoft is offering financial enticements to customers of on-demand ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor NetSuite to switch over to Microsoft's Dynamics family of business applications.

Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:45:00 GMT

Axed after disclosing security incident at Department of Transportation

Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system.

CA acquires Nimsoft in cloud computing services extention

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:46:00 GMT

CA pays $350m for systems monitoring firm

CA continued its shopping spree, agreeing to buy IT management software maker Nimsoft for $350 million.

IDC report datacentre management remains sloppy

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:46:00 GMT

Recession drives improvements but still much to do

CIOs and IT directors expect spending on staff in their datacentres to dramatically outstrip the overall growth in IT expenditure this year, according to analyst group IDC.

BlackBerry internet connections drops out for UK users

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:45:00 GMT

Wi-Fi enabled mobiles refuse to connect

Some BlackBerry users in North America and the United Kingdom experienced data outages on Monday and Tuesday on Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerries when not connected to Wi-Fi, according to user groups and some US carriers.

Microsoft loses Word patent battle

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:21:00 GMT

US court reaffirms i4i's patent win

The US Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury's verdict that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i.

Hackers aim at PDF over Microsoft Word, says F-Secure

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:16:00 GMT

Adobe Reader most attacked application

Hackers adore Adobe Reader, and have pushed it into first place as the software most often exploited in targeted attacks, a Finnish security company said today.

Microsoft Bing catching Google

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:10:00 GMT

Google remains majority share monster

Microsoft in recent months has slowly boosted its share of the search business, but still remains far behind a so far unbeatable foe in its battle with Google.

VMware and Citrix users targetted by virtual PC start-up

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:09:00 GMT

Unidesk enhances VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop rollouts

A virtual desktop start-up Unidesk is aiming to improve deployments of VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop with management software that it says reduces storage costs and gives users a more personalized desktop than the VDI tools by themselves.

Bill Gates slips to second world's richest man

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:00 GMT

Mexican telecoms tycoon takes top spot

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest man according to the annual Forbes magazine list, but it's not like he's going to have to go crawling back for his old job either.

CIOs lose confidence in predicting IT budgets

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:45:00 GMT

IT spending 'not on the rebound'

The "vast majority" of IT budgets will not grow this year, said analyst house Ovum.

Digital Economy Bill hit by complaints from Facebook, Google and eBay

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT

BT and TalkTalk, add the amendment to the Digital Economy Bill has "obvious shortcomings"

Google, Facebook and eBay are among the tech giants that have slammed the government's plans to tackle internet piracy, claiming it will "threaten freedom of speech".

Trademarks and security delay domain changes at ICANN meeting

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:40:00 GMT

Generic top level domains prove contentious issue

Trademark protection, costs and cybersecurity threats are some of the issues likely to derail the introduction of new Internet generic top-level domains, being discussed at a meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board this week in Nairobi.