The intense power requirements needed to run and cool datacentres now account for almost a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions from ICT, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Sun Microsystems is merging its storage and server units into one team, the company's chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has announced.
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VMware's leader discusses the hows and whys of the industry's move toward virtualisation.
The US sub-prime mortgage lending crisis could lead to economic losses totaling between US$150bn and US$400bn, according to The Wall Street Journal. While this dwarfs the effect of previous disasters such as the dot com bust, analysts remain optimistic that its effect on IT budgets will be flat, rather than disastrous.
NComputing's X300 provides a cost-effective way to hang up to six terminals off a single desktop PC using low-power, secure, easy to administer and quiet access terminals. It's not for power users, but is well suited to schools, business workgroups, libraries and internet cafes.
Despite the endless pressure to install the latest and greatest, many of the core technologies which are in use in the modern enterprise have been around for decades, if not centuries.
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