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• OS X Mountain Lion vs. Windows 8: Apple and Microsoft mobilise

  By Joseph Fieber | 17 February, 2012 08:39

  With smartphones and tablets quickly gaining widespread adoption, even IBM is calling this a post-PC era. It’s a world of portability, apps, and touch-enabled devices. This is clear not only in the dominance of mobile devices and laptops on the hardware side, but in the way that Apple and Microsoft are merging their mobile and desktop operating systems.

• 2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity

  By Lucas Mearian | 31 January, 2012 06:58

  While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it's rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two years. The reason: Corporate and retail consumers are being forced to store greater amounts of data and they need to make that data more useful - and accessible.

• 10 tech research projects to watch

  By Ian Paul | 05 January, 2012 02:10

  Technology firms wowed us in 2011, delivering tablets, ultrathin laptops, innovative cloud services, and voice command digital assistants. Not so long ago, the technology underlying these products was nothing more than research and development projects. So, in an effort to peek into our not-so-distant tech future, here's a glimpse at ten promising projects percolating in tech research labs.

• Cloud computing still a dream?

  By David Price | 04 March, 2011 01:58

  Today at CeBIT, representatives of some of the biggest names in IT came together for a discussion of cloud computing, which organisers have suggested could be the overriding theme of this year's show.

• Carbon tax: bring it on

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 10 March, 2011 12:20

  The Gillard Government’s carbon tax has provoked varied and, in some cases, extreme reactions but the message from the channel is simple - bring it on.

• Mainframe sect tackles new roles, old stereotypes

  By Ann Bednarz | 06 August, 2010 10:41

  IBM's new mainframe is on display at this week's SHARE conference in Boston, a testament to the relevancy of the big iron in today's enterprise IT environments. Amid the excitement over IBM's mainframe makeover, however, IT pros are concerned about the availability of skilled professionals who know how to run it.

• A daughter follows her father into a mainframe career

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 05 August, 2010 05:59

  Kristine Harper and her father, Tom, both work on mainframe computers. BOSTON - Kristine Harper was about 12-years-old when her father took her to his office to take part of a "take your daughter to work day." Tom Harper said his daughter was less than enthusiastic about his profession that day.

• Life after IBM is all green for ISS co-founder Tom Noonan

  By Jon Brodkin | 29 April, 2010 00:49

  It was 2006, and Tom Noonan had it all. Internet Security Systems (ISS), the company he co-founded and led as CEO, was pulling in $US400 million in annual revenue and on the verge of being acquired by IBM for a whopping $US1.3 billion.

• Analysis: Would you like a data center with that server?

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 20 January, 2010 08:03

  Faced with the continued commoditization of servers, IT vendors this year will try to differentiate their offerings by moving toward more highly integrated, unified compute platforms.

• Quiz: What were the first products from today's biggest tech companies?

  By Tim Greene | 18 January, 2010 12:17

  Cisco, Microsoft, IBM: They all started somewhere. Take this quiz to see how well you know the humble origins of today's tech titans

• Serving up the latest and greatest

  By Trevor Clarke | 23 September, 2009 10:39

  Although the first quarter of 2009 was a nightmare for many server vendors, new advanced products released during the first six months of the year are helping to pick the market back up. TREVOR CLARKE reports.

• IBM BladeCenter delivers speed, power savings

  By John Bass | 11 August, 2009 03:41

  Optimizing power consumption, CPU performance, and form factor is a never-ending battle in server design and IBM's Bladecenter HS22 succeeds on all counts.

• IBM steps up healthcare application work in China

  By Owen Fletcher | 17 June, 2009 20:25

  IBM is expanding work on applications for use in Chinese hospitals after spotting an opportunity in the country's massive spending plan for healthcare reform.

• Data center derby heats up

  By Beth Schultz | 16 June, 2009 00:17

  Network thoroughbred Cisco jumps into the blade server market. Server stallion HP adds security blades to its ProCurve switches. IBM teams up with Brocade. Oracle buys Sun. And everybody courts that prize filly VMware.

• IBM appliance speeds up software installation

  By Agam Shah | 19 May, 2009 14:02

  In an effort to set itself apart from other server vendors, IBM on Tuesday said it was stepping up efforts to make purpose-built appliances that remove the complexity of integrating software and services in a system.