HP opens a wind and rain-cooled data centre in the UK
Rosie Khdir takes a look at HP’s new data centre, a storage facility that is powered by the wind and rain and is more energy efficient than any ever built by the company.
Should Google just Buzz off?
Google, the search engine, Internet browser and owner of YouTube, Gmail and Picassa, is now launching a social networking site called Buzz. Rosie Khdir looks at Google’s ever-growing Internet empire.
Google streetview snowmobile for Winter Olympics
John Hillman reports on the news that Google has launched a special Winter Olympics Street View Snowmobile. Where will it end?
Last.fm – still the first choice for music online
Tomas Mowlam explains the joys of a good scrobble, and why Last.fm is still one of the best music sites out there.
Google goes super romantic for the Super Bowl
Who would have thought that a) Google would advertise and b) that it would have a romantic theme? Rosie Khdir takes a peek at Google’s much talked about Super Bowl ad.
Symantec reveals NetBackup 7
NetBackup 7 is new software created by Symantec to help businesses protect, store and recover information with greater efficiency. This latest release simplifies data management by reducing information stored through deduplication and reduces overall client costs. NetBackup also provides complete virtual machine protection to increase backup and recovery speeds of data within virtual environments and [...]
Fujitsu and Symantec expand Global Strategic Partnership
Symantec Corporation has announced an expansion of its global partnership with Fujitsu in order to better serve their customers in areas of data protections, storage managements and information security. Under this arrangement Symantec aims to combine its industry-leading data and storage management software with Fujitsu’s high-performance ETERNUS storage systems and PRIMERGY servers to reduce business [...]
McAfee: one of the “Coolest Cloud Security Vendors”
Everything Channel’s CRN has names McAfee as one of the top “20 Coolest Cloud Security Vendors. Last year McAfee acquires MX Logic and SaaS email and Web security which boosted its security portfolio which added 40,000 new customers and 1,800 channel partners. McAfee also launched a new version of its popular Total Protection Service which [...]
McAfee releases upgrades to award winning 2010 products
The award winning 2010 consumer product line by McAfee will be getting a revamp, creating the “fastest, lightest and most effective consumer PC protection in the company’s history”. Features of the upgrades will include expanded threat protection, enhanced performance with more than 325 per cent faster scans and a much easier-to-use interface. Products include: McAfee® [...]
Michael Dell buys Magnum photo archive
The CEO and founder of Dell Inc., Michael Dell has just acquired the print archive of Magnum Photos. The archive of almost 200,000 images is valued at over £63 million and contains some of the most iconic images of the last century. The collection includes photographs of Marilyn Monroe, Martin Luther King jnr, Che Guevara, [...]
