Infrastructure

HP is taking a whole new approach to how you build data centres says Ann Livermore, executive vice-president of the Technology Solutions Group at HP. In this exclusive interview Livermore outlines how software can automate IT to create data centres that are a lot easier to manage.

As general manager of information management in the IBM Software Group, Dr. Ambuj Goyal ensures the success of IBM

Stockholm, Sweden-based Ericsson Inc. recently purchased Entrisphere Inc., a producer of next-generation IP-based services. The move, Ericsson said, will help strengthen the telecom giant

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Nortel was in the news this month for all the wrong reasons yet again. At the beginning of March, the network equipment provider said it would delay filing its 2006 annual report in order to make another round of financial restatements. Unlike past errors though, the corrections were expected to be minor and were made to cover acuarial errors in pension and retirement plans, rather than to correct nefarious accounting practices.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer criticized rival Google Inc., saying it is devoted primarily to ad-supported search while Microsoft has reinvented itself many times over

Telstra Thursday unveiled the beginning of its aggressive international connectivity strategy with the announcement of a new wholly-owned submarine cable connecting Australia to the U.S.

Sound Transit in Seattle unclogged slow WAN links that hindered railway-improvement projects by using WAN-optimization gear that made traffic run faster and cost much less over time than other options.