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Thursday, 22 October sees the highly anticipated arrival of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, with many believing that the future of the world’s largest software company will depend on its success. The enormous scale of Microsoft’s grip on the market becomes clear when told of the 90% of computers relying on its Windows operating system, [...]

T-Mobile has had to withdraw the Sidekick in America, after being made aware that customers could lose personal data through its server. The designer of Sidekick’s software, Danger (a subsidiary of Microsoft), confirmed the fault, with the mobile phone industry condemning the issue as one of the biggest failings in recent years. Microsoft are also [...]

Fujitsu is looking to strengthen its Eternus DX brand by adding SAS and iSCSI interfaces and a solid state drive, enhancements developed since its March takeover of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. Fujitsu Siemens Computers had twin controller arrays with Fibre Channel connectivity for small/medium businesses in the FibreCAT SX60 and SX80. SAS and iSCSI were already features [...]

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are preparing themselves to release what they are calling the “fastest graphics supercomputer ever” they have announced.  It is the AMD Fusion Render Cloud, capable of bringing the user a powerful enough system to allow you to render high definition graphics in 3 dimensions, in a way that has never been [...]

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,

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.

SMEs are expected to spend $7.6bn on servers and networking equipment in 2008 across the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Norway and Finland.

Google is going under. Down under. Well that is according to Australian IT. The search giant has dispatched the oddly named “Lord of the nerds”…sorry, “Duke of the Data Centers” to one of the only places that doesn’t have a Google data center.

Fujitsu and its server partner Sun Microsystems have released an entry-level server that will fill the product gap between the company’s quad-core Sparc T and Sparc64 VII models.

IBM are offering customers who buy its System x rack servers and Bladecenter blade servers the option of Microsoft’s Windows Datacenter, allowing for unlimited virtualization.