Data Center

Interactive Software, Usability Top Innovations at Oredev

Innovation can come from anywhere. Contributor Matthew Heusser learned this in a recent trip to a developer conference in Sweden, where a game of Asteroids you play with your eyes and lessons from Hollywood on user experience caught his attention.

CBA, Telstra join Open Data Centre Alliance

Tape Storage Finds New Life in the Enterprise and Beyond

Tape is not dead--far from it. In fact, many enterprises depend on it for cost-effective long-term storage. Tape is also finding new applications in the virtualized and increasingly video-centric world of IT. As enterprises deal with bigger sets of d

Updated: Defence tenders for a $2 million supercomputer

How to Recover Data on HDD, SSD and Flash-Based Memory

How to Recover Data on HDD, SSD and Flash-Based Memory

Ever encounter a failed storage drive or delete an important file by mistake? Here's what you need to do. Step 1: Figure out if you can do it yourself or need to call in the professionals.

How a Private Cloud Saves Money and the Environment

When Ricoh Europe realized its IT environment was both spiraling out of control and environmentally unfriendly, it turned to a IT services provider for help. Working with Infosys, Ricoh developed a private cloud that helped it consolidate nine data c

As BlackBerry 10 Launch Nears, RIM’s Momentum Builds

During the past week, 15,000 BlackBerry 10 applications were submitted by developers; RIM's NFC security product received a thumbs up from Visa; and the company announced that 1,600 organizations are working with RIM to prepare for the launch of

6 Hidden Costs of Cloud and How to Avoid Them

As organizations flock to the cloudu201494 percent of enterprises are at least discussing cloud or cloud servicesu2014they are encountering a host of hidden costs. These costs can be avoided with a bit of planning.

Apple’s ‘Find My iPhone’ Sends Dozens of Angry iUsers to Innocent Man’s Home

Apple's location-based Find My iPhone feature can be a life saver for folks who've lost their iDevices. But it has also proved to be a major problem for one Las Vegas man. Here's why.

EMC Offers Online File Sharing With On-Premise Storage Product

EMC is building on its acquisition of the Syncplicity file-sharing and collaboration service by combining it with its Isilon scale-out NAS to provide the enterprise what the storage giant claims provides the convenience of a cloud-based file-sharing