Stories by: Maxwell Cooter

IBM has teamed up with Ubuntu and Virtual Bridges to offer a virtualised version of the popular Lotus Notes software. The companies claimed that users would be able to experience significant savings compared to a Windows-based machine.

VMware has introduced View 3, the updated version of its virtual data infrastructure (VDI) offering. The company claimed that the new product would reduce desktop storage demands by as much as 70 per cent.

Years of in-fighting over the DNSSEC standard have left Internet users unnecessarily exposed to malware.

IBM has joined the companies jostling for position in the cloud computing space. The company has announced a variety of offerings that it claimed would allow users to better manager data and make collaboration easier.

It's a pressing problem; how can data centers be made more energy efficient when managers often have little idea as to the true environmental cost of running their data centers.

NEC and Unisys have revealed the first fruits of their research collaboration by launching a high-end server.

Red Hat is set to demonstrate heavy Oracle applications running on a virtualized environment at next week's VMWorld. The company also aims to perform a live migration during the demo, claiming to complete the migration much quicker than can any of its competitors.

SolarWinds has launched the latest version of its network change and configuration manager.

Intel has snapped up British Linux house Opened Hand in another sign of the growing interest in the use of the operating system on mobile devices.

Businesses worried by the forthcoming hike in SAP maintenance prices are being offered a chance to cut their bills by IT consultancy West Trax.

Early users of unified comms systems have found that improved customer satisfaction scores higher than cost savings when it comes to assessing the benefits. That's the surprising conclusion from a survey carried out by Vanson Bourne looking at the way that unified comms has been adopted in the UK.