Facebook has decided to double the size of its planned data centre in Oregon before the first part of the project is even built, the latest sign of the company's rapid growth.

The nonprofit organisation One Laptop Per Child wants to join forces to help develop the Indian government's planned $35 tablet.

This report examines the transition from a period of Strategic Consolidation to one of focused Process Improvement, stages two to three in Forrester’s Virtualization Maturity Model. Through in-depth interviews with numerous IT professionals across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Forrester found that those companies that had changed their operational processes to reflect the unique needs of a virtual infrastructure achieved higher return on investment, greater administrator productivity, more predictable deployments, and simpler problem identification and resolution than those that had simply virtualized and stuck with traditional procedures.

Through in-depth interviews with numerous IT professionals across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions, Forrester found that those companies that took a holistic rather than a piecemeal approach to their virtual infrastructure were able to dramatically increase infrastructure consolidation gains and improve their flexibility, responsiveness and resiliency — at a cost they could afford.

Whether you are looking to consolidate physical resources and create a virtualized data center, or you’re sticking with a tried-and-true traditional architecture, the ability to forestall additional capital expenditures through the implementation of server offload techniques can only improve your financial efficiency—while maintaining or even improving availability, capacity, and performance. And with the anticipated growth of virtual machines per server, it is imperative to ensure that each application deployed within a virtual machine is as efficient as possible.

The virtualisation of network and application network infrastructure is the second wave of the virtualisation tsunami to hit the shores of the data centre. Unlike server virtualisation, because of its unique role in the data centre, Application Delivery Controller (ADC) virtualisation brings with it architectural implications that make a simple vitual-for-physical replacement strategy unacceptable. But there are appropriate places across the data centre and organisation where virtualised ADCs can be leveraged as stand-alone solutions, as well as in conjunction with its physical predecessor, to enable a more dynamic data centre without compromising reliability, scalability, and performance.

Most green initiatives thus far have focused solely on reducing the power requirements of individual devices. While that is certainly a valid approach to reducing power consumption, it does not affect other variables in the green equation such as the power required to cool a data center or the power provided to racks upon racks of servers.

Cranfield University is donating more than 1,200 PCs and monitors to schools in South America and Africa.

Creating networks that can run business-critical applications is one of the core focuses of the enterprise IT department. This has traditionally meant wired Ethernet, with wireless often seen as an afterthought for convenience rather than the network of choice. But as aging wired infrastructure approaches its next expensive refresh cycle and users demand mobility IT departments are looking for an alternative. In uncertain economic times, a networking technology that radically cuts per-port costs and eliminates most cabling would seem to be ideal.

The last decade of the 20th century witnessed the use of Internet. The first decade of the 21st century has seen the rise of wireless connectivity. Wireless networking is now commonplace—mobile connectivity is becoming a rule, not an exception. But getting there was not as easy as it may seem today. Wireless networking requires a basic understanding of the world of Radio Frequency (RF)— where concepts like channel planning, cell sizes and frequency reuse are the norm.

Following the May 2010 general election and resulting budget cuts, the UK public sector faces the toughest challenges in decades. Adoption of leaner, more agile work styles, implementation of mobile and flexible working solutions and some strong executive leadership will be called for if the sector is to continue delivering the required levels of public services while producing the many billions of efficiency savings that will be expected of it.

The report begins by reviewing the classic approach comparing the service as a substitute for business travel. By looking at three distinct classes of business travel - day trips, overnight trips and week-long trips - Brockmann & Company developed a Demand curve for each class of substitution. We then review the value of the service with respect to the more mature audio conferencing and web conferencing services.

Telepresence is the latest in a long line of visual communications technologies that have promised to revolutionise corporate collaboration. But can the new technology meet the complex and demanding needs of today’s organisations for reducing costs, improving productivity, and realising their environmental responsibilities—or is it just another example of a solution looking for a problem?

The business world is changing. Today’s workforce is more global than ever before. Not only are teams spread out around the world, but people are also working from a greater variety of places — workstation, home office, coffee shop and anywhere in between.

Did you know that 55 percent of communication is determined by nonverbal cues — namely tone of voice and body language?1 How many of these important nonverbal details get lost everyday in email exchanges or teleconferences? Face-to-face communication is more personal. It builds a higher level of trust, reduces confusion and makes people more accountable for their actions.

With workloads becoming more complex and servers being asked to support growing amounts of data and users, hardware makers and buyers alike need a way to leverage the processor, memory, and I/O capabilities of 4P servers without paying “the 4P tax.” AMD Opteron 6000 series platform has introduced an affordable pricing strategy as well as enhanced their platform capabilities.  Find how the Opteron 6000 series can enhance your server performance.

The office as we know it is in danger of becoming extinct. Cancelled meetings, endless commuting and the enormous expense of renting desk space that’s idle for 16 hours a day have long been wasteful practices. It’s only now that more and more people are starting to realise this. The companies of tomorrow will change the face of the ‘traditional’ employee too. More emphasis will be put on an employee’s area of expertise rather than the idea of a job for life.

Some campaigners who promote the recycling and reuse of electronic equipment have expressed concern over the news that the government is axing the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Advisory Body (WAB).

A policy-based approach to key management provides the flexibility and scalability needed to support today’s dynamic networking environments. Policy-based key management ensures the secure administration of keys throughout their entire lifecycle, including generation, distribution, use, storage, recovery, termination, and archival. This will also enhance business processes and relieve often over-burdened IT staff by breaking down the “islands of security” and “security silos” that are too often typical to enterprise environments.

Google plans to become carbon neutral at the same time promote green energy by entering into a 20-year agreement to buy power from an Iowa wind farm.