In a CA$170 (AU$187) million deal, IBM has acquired DataMirror Corporation and its data identification and capture technology, giving big blue’s information management services a significant boost.
According the Sun Microsystems, two thirds of businesses have environmental or green practices in place, yet there is a significant difference between the green business practices of businesses and what’s actually going on in the IT department.
HP has announced it has recycled at least 1 billion pounds of electronics this year, while also taking a stab at the recycling habits of its closest competitor, IBM.
According to the analysts at IDC, the next three years will see a phenomenal surge in demand for data storage, with the volume of digital information tipped to top 988 billion gigabytes by 2010.
IBM has announced its next generation of virtual tape solutions for its mainframe customers, promising significant enhancements to its IBMR Virtualisation Engine TS7740.
With Live Earth making headlines around the world, much has been said about the event’s green philosophy and how it can possibly hope to offset its own environmental impact.
Researchers at the University of Berlin in Germany have worked out a method of data storage that will bump Blu-Ray and HD DVD optical disk storage capacity up to 500GB.
