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VMware shares fall as founder leaves

Bryan Glick — 2008-07-08T18:27:00.000Z

Bryan Glick, Computing, Tuesday 8 July 2008 at 18:27:00

Virtualisation specialist also warns that full-year sales will be below expectations

VMware shares suffered their biggest fall in six months after the surprise announcement that founder and chief executive Diane Greene has left the company....

Email management takes too much time and effort

Martin Courtney — 2008-07-02T16:56:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 16:56:00

Two thirds of corporate users waste time deleting email from inboxes with too little storage capacity

About 65 per cent of corporates have to contend with email inbox quotas which are often as small as 100MB, forcing them to waste time managing their email, according to...

In peril? You need a pIT stop

Bryan Glick — 2008-06-12T15:42:00.000Z

Bryan Glick, Computing, Thursday 12 June 2008 at 15:42:00

Your IT questions are answered by our panel of industry experts

The pIT stop is a unique reader service hosted by Computing. In the first part of the programme, we offered four IT managers the chance to present their technology problems...

Symantec enters crowded online data backup market

Martin Courtney — 2008-06-12T12:09:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Thursday 12 June 2008 at 12:09:00

SwapDrive acquisition provides another string to its consumer and SMB storage bow

Symantec has acquired online backup company SwapDrive for an estimated $123m (£63m), say reports. SwapDrive offers a secure online service to consumers and small businesses that want to upload and...

Sun joins the solid state disk storage rush

Martin Courtney — 2008-06-11T18:24:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Wednesday 11 June 2008 at 18:24:00

Storage giants queuing up to offer servers and storage systems based on energy-saving flash disks

Sun Microsystems last week became the latest vendor to put its weight behind solid state disk (SSD) storage technology, pledging to replace spinning hard disks with 2.5in and 3.5in flash...

Cloud computing on the agenda

Neon Kelly in Lisbon — 2008-06-10T10:26:00.000Z

Neon Kelly in Lisbon, Computing, Tuesday 10 June 2008 at 10:26:00

IT leaders gather in Lisbon to discuss latest trends with Forrester Research analysts

Cloud computing and information management are among the hot topics at Forrester Research's European IT Forum, taking place in Lisbon this week....

Worldwide disk storage market up 10.2 per cent

Janie Davies — 2008-06-05T15:32:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Thursday 5 June 2008 at 15:32:00

Strong demand prevails in the worldwide storage market, Gartner reveals

Global external controller-based disk storage revenue was up 10.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2008 at $4.3bn (£2.2bn), compared with the same period last year, says Gartner....

UK lawyers risk data loss

Neon Kelly — 2008-06-04T16:41:00.000Z

Neon Kelly, Computing, Wednesday 4 June 2008 at 16:41:00

A third of the country's legal firms are reliant on onsite archiving methods

Nearly a third (28 per cent) of the UK's legal firms are risking catastrophe by backing up their data onsite rather than using an external archive....

Overseas sales help HP avoid sub-prime crisis

Martin Courtney — 2008-05-29T10:03:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Thursday 29 May 2008 at 10:03:00

Increased revenue elsewhere in the world lessens the impact of slower sales inside the US

HP’s profit for the second quarter of the 2008 financial year grew 22 per cent to $2.6bn (£1.3bn) compared with that period in 2007, with the company recording record cashflow...

Memory chip sales slowing down

Martin Courtney — 2008-05-27T17:07:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Tuesday 27 May 2008 at 17:07:00

Reduced consumer equipment spending has negative affect on DRAM chips

Demand for memory chips that power PCs, mobile phones, consumer electronics and in-car computers has slumped, according to the semiconductor industry’s largest trade association....

Merula invests £1m in East Anglian data centre

Martin Courtney — 2008-05-20T15:56:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Tuesday 20 May 2008 at 15:56:00

London facilities expensive, cramped and unavailable

Internet service provider (ISP) Merula has opened its own datacentre facility in Cambridgeshire to meet increased demand for hosted web site, email and servers from business customers....

Hitachi losses worsen

Martin Courtney — 2008-05-13T12:47:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Tuesday 13 May 2008 at 12:47:00

Low consumer spending, currency depreciation and higher taxes produce negative effects in 2007

Hitachi saw its net losses rise to 58.1bn yen (£287m) for the 2007 financial year from 32.8bn yen (£162m) in 2006....

O'Neill waves goodbye to tape backup

Neon Kelly — 2008-04-28T16:11:00.000Z

Neon Kelly, Computing, Monday 28 April 2008 at 16:11:00

The surfwear maker has contracted Data Domain to store its information

Surfwear maker O'Neill Europe has contracted storage firm Data Domain to provide data backup services at five sites across Europe....

Data storage burden on IT is set to increase

Martin Courtney — 2008-03-20T00:00:00.000Z

Martin Courtney, Computing, Thursday 20 March 2008 at 00:00:00

With the volume of global data growing yearly, IT departments are feeling the pressure of security

IT departments are struggling to consolidate growing data storage requirements, and the digital information burden is only going to worsen in the next few years, according to research....

York St John University upgrades data management

Janie Davies — 2008-03-18T00:00:00.000Z

Janie Davies, Computing, Tuesday 18 March 2008 at 00:00:00

A data archiving system will help the university managed increased information storage

York St John University has implemented data management software to cope with growing volumes of information. Data stored by the university's 600 employees expanded by 50 per cent over 18...