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.

Storage vendor EMC Corp. recently released three new products that target small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) uneasy about the cost of setting up data storage systems

Is your business ready for a digital hurricane? A study released by market research firm IDC Corp. revealed the amount of digital information that will be created between 2006 and 2010 will increase from 161 exabytes to a whopping 988 exabytes. One exabyte is equivalent to about one billion gigabytes

Looking to extend the reach of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms deeper within the enterprise, Microsoft Corp. used its annual Dynamics user conference in San Diego this month to launch a tool that lets users access backend data via the Microsoft Office suite

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.