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Microsoft Corp. has big plans for Bing. It's opening two new data centers which will have more than 1 million square feet. One is located in Chicago and the other is in Dublin, Ireland. At these... Read more...

In a case that rather dramatically highlighted the value of virtualization when it comes to business continuity, a team at the online Fielding Graduate University managed to relocate the entire... Read more...

It would appear that Microsoft isn't the only company that can be surprised by overloaded servers. This time, legions of Apple fans eager to upgrade to the highly-anticipated iPhone 3.0 software... Read more...

As part of its Unified Computing System (UCS) strategy, to enter the server market, Cisco will be offering the "C Series" of 1U and 2U servers that will be built on the Intel Xeon 5500 processor.... Read more...

According to industry tracker IDC, Q1 2009 was the worst quarter ever for worldwide server sales. With recorded factory server sales of just $9.9 billion in the first quarter, the number represents a... Read more...

Online storage sites, which emerged as a hot service just a few years ago, are shutting down in droves. The big question is: Can your data be saved before it is lost? In the last year, a number of... Read more...

The Internet is endless, right? Wrong. The Internet is power hungry and its increasing appetite for electricity may soon cause a disaster. "In an energy-constrained world, we cannot continue to grow... Read more...

A new rash of Trojans has been detected that attempts to hijack entire local area networks (LAN) by masquerading as a DHCP server on the network. This allows the malware to set itself up as the... Read more...

A recent firmware update on more than twenty models of its business servers could result in the failure of their hard disk drives. The models affected include the BladeCenter, xSeries and System x... Read more...

In a survey released mid-week, IDC said that worldwide server revenue in the last quarter of 2008 saw its largest drop in years. Server revenue fell to $13.5 billion, or a 14 percent year-over-year... Read more...