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• Cisco boosted profit, sales in Q2 while cutting costs

  By Stephen Lawson | 09 February, 2012 08:43

  Cisco Systems posted year-over-year gains in revenue and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Wednesday, reporting net sales up 10.8 percent to US$11.5 billion, and said it met a key cost-cutting goal one quarter early.

• Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch

  By Chris Kanaracus | 09 February, 2012 00:03

  Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.

• Greenpeace scorecard documents greener enterprise offerings

  By Cameron Scott | 08 February, 2012 16:01

  Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficiency in the industries that they serve, according to the latest in a series of Greenpeace ratings of the sector's energy practices.

• Large data center coming to India, as regional demand booms

  By John Ribeiro | 08 February, 2012 01:04

  Tulip Data Center Services is setting up a 900,000 square foot (83,612.7 square meters) data center in Bangalore, the largest in India, to benefit from scale and target growing demand for collocation, cloud, and managed services in India and neighboring countries.

• Clues about HP's Gen8 servers leaked on its website

  By Agam Shah | 02 February, 2012 10:57

  Hewlett-Packard has let slip some details on its website about its upcoming Proliant Gen8 servers ahead of their official launch.

• SeaMicro puts 256 Xeon cores in server

  By Agam Shah | 01 February, 2012 04:44

  SeaMicro on Tuesday announced a microserver that incorporates 256 Xeon processor cores to enable faster delivery of data for Internet-based activities such as social media or search.

• SeaMicro puts 256 Xeon cores in server

  By Agam Shah | 01 February, 2012 04:08

  SeaMicro on Tuesday announced a microserver that incorporates 256 Xeon processor cores to enable faster delivery of data for Internet-based activities such as social media or search.

• Oracle handed setback in HP Itanium case

  By John Ribeiro | 31 January, 2012 16:40

  A court in California rejected Oracle's bid to use a fraud claim to undo an agreement to support the Itanium processor, that it is said to have made with Hewlett-Packard.

• CIO Rebecca Jacoby steers Cisco's IT ship

  By Stephen Lawson | 14 December, 2010 08:29

  Running the internal IT operations of Cisco Systems is a big job not just because of the size of the company -- more than 70,000 employees worldwide and a market capitalisation in the range of $US100 billion -- but also because Cisco is continually developing new IT products across a broad range of technologies and is known for rapidly adopting those products for its own use. Cisco CIO Rebecca Jacoby spoke with IDG News Service on the sidelines of the NetWork conference last week and shared some insights into the legendary enterprise IT company's own enterprise IT.

• Closer look at Microsoft 'Aurora' Small Business Server

  By Tony Bradley | 14 December, 2010 06:53

  Microsoft has been paying more attention lately to the small business audience, as well as the cloud. With the "Aurora" Small Business Server (SBS)--officially named Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Microsoft delivers a solution that brings the two together--bridging local services and the cloud, and granting small businesses affordable access to big business tools.

• Build a private Azure cloud with new Microsoft appliance

  By Tony Bradley | 14 July, 2010 02:43

  Companies interested in taking advantage of what cloud computing has to offer, but reluctant to trust sensitive information off-site now have a new alternative with Microsoft's Windows Azure Platform appliance. Microsoft has teamed up with strategic hardware partners to develop an appliance-based approach allowing businesses to deploy and control their own cloud.

• 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.

• The great co-location debate

  By lint Harder | 04 September, 2009 08:19

  With cloud computing growing in popularity, SMBs are questioning whether it is more practical to co-locate their data centers or completely bypass that option and head into the cloud? First, let's briefly clarify the two:

• 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.

• 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.

• Serving it up to SMBs: What's on the menu?

  By Trevor Clarke | 30 July, 2008 12:21

  There are few people in the IT industry that would gloat about servicing a company of less than 50 people to their global peers. There are even fewer that would do it for a 10-seat operation. But in reality, the SMB market is the backbone of the Australian economy and deserves its time in the spotlight.