As the UN summit on global e-waste wraps up in Nairobi this week, Dell has announced it has recovered almost 100 tonnes of PC waste ready for the recycling bin, across Australia and New Zealand.
It’s far from over but the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) has won a significant victory defending the legitimacy of its Wireless Local Area Network patent, granted in 1996.
Silicon Graphics Incorporated has introduced two new network-attached storage appliances, which it says cut administration time in demanding storage environments where immediate access to large amounts of data is required.
Global warming is becoming a pushbutton of epic proportions, and while its waste may not be as visible as others, the IT industry is anything but clean and green. Sun Microsystems is on a mission to change this.
It’s one for one on the encryption and data protection and migration acquisitions front, with NetApp and EMC’s recent respective acquisitions of Avamar ($165 million) and Topio ($160 million).
IBM has pulled back the curtain on two new midrange storage servers aimed at companies it says require “hardened” infrastructures due to their unique operating conditions.
