Cloud computing has benefits, but there are downsides. One successful cloud user tells us how to get it right

It's no good waiting for technology to save you. Storage problems can be fixed with simple good management, says Valdis Filks of Gartner

If the merger goes ahead, IBM will have to make choices: Which database, which directory, and which virtualisation technology?

Sun has had trouble selling its technology, and IBM is a past master at marketing. What's not to like about the proposed merger?

Analysts love Cisco's move into the data centre, and the competition are picking holes in the strategy - while beta testers say it looks promising

We've all known for a long while that Cisco has plans for the data centre. This week we find out what they are.

System management announcements can be vague; stir in the cloud and you have a recipe for complete incoherence. But IBM's cloud announcements have substance, analysts say.

Intel will shrink its Atom processor to 32-nanometres in the second half of 2010, and the company is developing this chip and a new netbook platform under the codename “Medfield”, according to a research note that UBS analysts published earlier this month.

Companies frequently don't like to think about business continuity, disaster recovery, the expense of hot sites or even off-site storage. But, if you can't afford to lose it, then BC/DR is for you.

Despite talk about iSCSI, Fibre Channel and 4/10GB Ethernet connectivity, analystss estimate that DAS still comprises about 70 percent of the entire data storage market