The most recent Business Hardware articles from IT Week

Microsoft to attack VMware from below

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-04T17:20:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Friday 4 July 2008 at 17:20:00

Uptake of the software giant’s Hyper-V hypervisor is expected to be strongest among smaller companies, where its affordability is most likely to give it an edge over more sophisticated rivals

With the release of its Hyper-V hypervisor, Microsoft finally has a server virtualisation product with which to rival the likes of VMware....

Intel sees x86 everywhere in future

Daniel Robinson — 2008-07-03T13:13:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Thursday 3 July 2008 at 13:13:00

The chip giant expects its architecture will be in everything from tiny devices right up to supercomputers

Intel expects to see Moore's law continue for the near future and also plans for its x86 processor architecture to extend across everything from small embedded devices right up to...

Dell touts better blade management

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-02T18:25:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 18:25:00

Easier to manage PowerEdge blades using secure digital card and upgraded firmware

Firms using Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade server systems now have a simple way of managing their blades, using software stored on a Secure Digital (SD) card....

Do UK firms need better offline information retrieval?

Dave Bailey — 2008-07-02T12:02:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 12:02:00

Information retrieval problems are costing UK firms five weeks productivity per year says survey

A new survey by HP has identified problems with the way that UK firms are storing and retrieving information. HP said that by changing their practices firms could save up...

Plasmon protects archived data

Dave Bailey — 2008-06-30T18:10:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Monday 30 June 2008 at 18:10:00

Plasmon's NetArchive platform uses NetApp RAID hardware and WORM appliance to archive data

Archiving solution provider Plasmon has announced NetArchive, an enterprise-class archiving system, which blends online and long-term storage architectures with data management software to give enhanced data integrity, longevity and disaster...

Sun gets more social

David Neal — 2008-06-30T11:59:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Monday 30 June 2008 at 11:59:00

Sun Microsystems is making it easier for firms to run and develop open environments

Sun Microsystems is offering customers new software that can help them better manage their resources, and reduce the cost and administration associated with popular open source database and application server...

PlateSpin updates server workload migration tools

Daniel Robinson — 2008-06-26T11:26:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Thursday 26 June 2008 at 11:26:00

Management tool provider PlateSpin has a new version of its server migration tool out

PlateSpin has introduced a new version of its management tool for migrating workloads between servers, adding the ability to move between a physical server and a virtual server on Linux-based...

Firms fail to exploit document management software's full potential

Rosalie Marshall — 2008-06-25T17:24:00.000Z

Rosalie Marshall, IT Week, Wednesday 25 June 2008 at 17:24:00

New Butler Group study suggests companies could derive more business value from document and records management technology

Firms anxious to comply with governance regulations are missing an opportunity to build potentially valuable archives of unstructured data by rushing their deployments of document and records management (DRM) systems,...

Dell launches storage consulting services

Dave Bailey — 2008-06-25T16:08:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Wednesday 25 June 2008 at 16:08:00

The vendor will offer guidance on backup, restore and disaster recovery issues

Dell has launched new storage consulting services aimed at businesses of all sizes. Dell's storage alliances manager for global infrastructure consulting services, Stephen Davies, said, "What we're launching today is...

Parallels aims at virtual desktops

Daniel Robinson — 2008-06-24T16:15:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Tuesday 24 June 2008 at 16:15:00

Virtuozzo container-based platform enables customers to support more users per server than other virtualisation tools, according to the company

Parallels is entering the desktop virtualisation market with its Virtuozzo container-based platform, which enables customers to support more users per server than other virtualisation tools, according to the company....

Cisco upgrades Wide Area Application Services and Application Control Engine

Dave Bailey — 2008-06-24T15:30:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Tuesday 24 June 2008 at 15:30:00

Networking giant said updates should boost firms’ virtualisation and datacentre management efforts

Networking giant Cisco today announced a raft up updates that should enhance enterprises’ virtualisation and datacentre management efforts, including upgrades to its Wide Area Application Services (Waas) and Application Control...

HP punts de-duplication systems

Dave Bailey — 2008-06-23T16:41:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Monday 23 June 2008 at 16:41:00

HP is aiming its new de-dupe solutions at a range of firms

HP's storage arm moved to establish a presence in the deduplication market today when it announced it was integrating the technology into new systems aimed at the SMB market, and...

Igel expands virtual desktop support

David Neal — 2008-06-23T12:29:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Monday 23 June 2008 at 12:29:00

Igel Technology has added support foe a range of machines to its firmware

Thin client firm Igel Technology is claiming support for a broad range of virtual desktop systems in the latest update to its Linux firmware....

Let a little passion drive procurement

Alistair Dabbs — 2008-06-23T10:45:00.000Z

Alistair Dabbs, IT Week, Monday 23 June 2008 at 10:45:00

Following your gut instinct might be the best route when buying IT equipment

Have you heard of the zCover iSAglove Armband Set? No? Well, it’s a strap that attaches an iPhone “conveniently” to your forearm - conveniently, one imagines, for muggers....

Review: NEC's Versa is business alternative to mini-laptops

Daniel Robinson — 2008-06-20T11:02:00.000Z

Daniel Robinson, IT Week, Friday 20 June 2008 at 11:02:00

The Versa S9100’s decent battery life and low weight make it a good choice for road warriors

NEC’s Versa S9100 is a lightweight ultraportable laptop that offers respectable performance, even under Windows Vista, and could prove a hit with business travellers needing a PC for productivity while...