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IBM has announced the arrival of its Active Energy Manager v4.1 (AEM) plug-in for its Systems Director system management tool, which is used to monitor the power consumption and temperatures of IBM systems,

Reports from security provider MessageLabs suggest that virus writers are highly likely to release increasingly sophisticated strains of malware over the course of next year in an effort to get back in to the game after some high-profile botnet shutdown operations in 2008.

Everywhere you look right now you see green this, green that. It’s on the tip of everyone who loves a debate’s tongue, and is debated at al levels of society and industry. The one place that’s escaped the notion of green computing is something that pretty much every home has these days – games consoles.

When does virtual reality end and real life begin? Is it when your wife shouts that your dinners ready? Is when your character gets killed online? Or is it when you’re found by your parents hanging in your bedroom closet?

High spec computer manufacturers Lenovo has announced Secure Managed Client (SMC), which is a storage-based desktop solution that should massively reduce the costs and worries about security that come in running an IT business. The rather exciting SMC turns off hard drives and stores all data in a non-server remote location, all the while cunningly [...]

The European Commission (EU) has requested that data centre owners voluntarily sign a Code of Conduct which encourages a best practice when it comes to energy efficiency, and provide monthly energy reports and an overall annual report to an EU secretariat.

Yesterday, in Texas, the annual Supercomputing 2008 trade show began with a speech from Michael Dell – chief executive of computer company Dell.

Intel’s shiny new high-end desktop processor range has hit shelves. The new core i7 range, which were previously codenamed “Nehalem”, are based on a clever new micro-architecture that is designed to deliver high performance and be much more energy efficient.

Struggling Sun Microsystems, the server and software innovator, is to make around 6,000 workers redundant next year – a massive 18 percent of the company’s workforce.

With the economy on a perpetual downslide at the moment, it’s fair to say that company’s aren’t to keen on opening up their cheque books and signing away a heap of cash.