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Benchmarking Amazon EC2: The wacky world of cloud performance

Drivers of cloud machines should keep a close watch on performance

Muted excitement for latest Toshiba Android tablet

Pitching Toshiba's Excite 10 SE tablet against HP's EliteBook Folio 9470m Ultrabook

Global ad firm urges companies to consider AWS alternatives for big data analytics

Neither AWS nor Rackspace were able to meet Struq's requirements for low latency and fast provisioning of physical servers

OpenStack - Why democracy beats dictatorship in the cloud

By giving control to experts in particular fields, the OpenStack Foundation hopes to get the best out of its community

Data Centre Maturity Model: providing a holistic view of sustainability

PUE is no longer enough for some data centre operators

Opinion: Personal data syncing to the cloud is broken; let's fix it

Here's why calendar syncing among iCal, Google Contacts and Mac Outlook 2011 doesn't work: Microsoft doesn't support the CalDAV protocol in Mac Office 2011

Power efficiency a growing concern in the data centre and for end users

Energy consumption is at the forefront of IT as industry leaders seek to lower costs and, for the more altruistically inclined, save the planet at the same time

Big data analytics computing requires a 'maverick fabric' network

Within the enterprise the use of standards is paramount, and that means heavy reliance upon Ethernet. But plain old Ethernet won't cut it

Data centre in a box? The era is approaching

Start-up SimpliVity touts an all-in-one array, its OmniCube

Big data woes: Which database should I use?

In the era of big data, good old RDBMS is no longer the right tool for many database jobs. Here's a quick guide to choosing among NoSQL alternatives

AWS outages, bugs and bottlenecks explained by Amazon

Never-before-seen software bug caused flood of requests creating a massive backlog in the system

Intel VP: Parallelism will drive energy efficiency in HPC

Intel's Raj Hazra says Xeon Phi will enable supercomputers to grow by keeping energy consumption low

Putting the 'where' into your data analytics

Success is a matter of the quality and quantity of data fed into the analytics system

Project Moonshot can spur widespread VDI deployments, says Carrenza

HP's high density server system used in production at Comic Relief

National Rail Enquiries CEO makes the case for multi-sourcing

The only way 24 staff can run the system

Red Hat: Most companies are still not cloud-ready

Big firms need to get their enterprise applications ready for the cloud era, says Frederik Bijlsma

City Lifeline MD: why inner-city hosting is worth the expense

When latency and connectivity are key, Central London is the place to be

Supercomputers face growing resilience problems

As the number of components in large supercomputers grows, so does the possibility of component failure

Red Hat, Xen, Java, Cloudera software support ready for 64-bit ARM

The software support is needed for ARM-based servers to take off

HANA is nothing short of dazzling, says SAP, which early customers confirm

SAP's claims of the in-memory database's speed and power are valid, but it still has a new product's growing pains, users say

Windows Server 2012 embraces the data centre

New Microsoft server OS is better equipped for the data centre, observers note

Microsoft CTO: Model Clauses give SMEs assurance in the cloud

Model Clauses enable companies to prove they are meeting data protection obligations, says Stephen McGibbon

Everyone loves the cloud

The entire C-level is talking clouds, embrace it to make the most of it

Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 Metro app ecosystem set to grow

If Microsoft fulfills its potential to unify platforms, that will give its OSes a distinct edge and grant users a clear benefit.

Are you using your big data right?

Respect consumer privacy or you could get burned


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