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Greenpeace puts Oracle last in green IT rankings

 08 February 2012

Environmental pressure group rates enterprise IT vendors on green solutions, their own energy impact and green IT advocacy

Cisco issues burning server warning 

 07 February 2012

Certain blades in networking giant's Unified Computing System are prone to overheating following power transistor failure

Santander to build £100m data centre near Leicester

 06 February 2012

Banking giant, which acquired Alliance & Leicester in 2008, commissions construction firm to build new 320,000 square foot data centre facility

Windows hit by PC decline but Intel riding high

 20 January 2012

Sales of Windows operating system hit by "softness" in PC market, says Microsoft, but Intel reports record year

VMware co-founder joins Google board

 13 January 2012

Appointment of Diane Greene, former CEO of the virtualisation pioneer, implies renewed enterprise push

New mainframe for London Insurance Market

 03 January 2012

Xchanging, which provides IT services to the London Insurance Market, rolls out the world's first IBM z114 mainframe system

Oracle's growth slows to a crawl

 21 December 2011

Systems and software giant reports 2% revenue growth for its latest quarter, thanks to a 14% drop in hardware sales

HP opens door to x86 chips in mission-critical systems

 24 November 2011

Amid legal dispute with Oracle over support for Intel's Itanium, HP launches project that will allow industry standard chips to support critical systems

EDF to launch Smart Grid trial in London

 16 November 2011

EDF Energy to install 5,000 smart meters in London, as former subsidiary UK Power Networks analyses the impact on its network distribution grid

BT ranks top in CRC performance among ICT providers

 08 November 2011

The telco produces the most carbon among IT companies in the UK but is also taking most action to cut emissions, new CRC league table reveals

AMD cuts another 10% of its workforce

 04 November 2011

Having cut 1,600 jobs in 2008, chipmaker is to axe around another 1,000 in bid to cut costs $130 million

HP confirms ARM server range

 02 November 2011

HP announces low-energy servers running ARM architecture, as ARM ramps up design process with acquisition

Billionaire doctor offers to host California court records

 28 October 2011

Cancer drug developer has offered a $20 million grant and use of his company's data centre to rescue troubled court records upgrade project

HP to keep its PC business

 28 October 2011

The cost of spinning off its Personal Systems Group would outweigh the benefits, HP has announced, but future of webOS still uncertain

Facebook to build three green data centres in Sweden

 27 October 2011

New data centre will be the first of three Facebook server farm projects planned for area

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