HP pays $55 million to call off kickback probe

Back in September last year, Oracle's CEO, the flamboyant and controversial Larry Ellison, said that the company may be looking to buy a chipmaker and that mere suggestion sent the shares of ARM and AMD sky high. Technically...

IBM has rolled out a new four socket BladeCenter server that comes equiped with AMD's Opteron 6100 processor, codenamed Magny-Cours and launched back in March. Big Blue now joins ranks with Dell, Acer and Hewlett-Packard in...

IT Services Powerhouse Hewlett-Packard has announced that the company plans to further expand its information technology services by offering a new set of ‘Cloud Design Services’. Industry experts believe that the...

Big Blue has announced that in 2009, the company, with the help of its Migration Factory software, has successfully lured 200 former Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard customers, who have shifted their critical workloads to...

Software Freedom Law center, a non-profit software group, has sent a letter to the European Union regulators who are investigating Oracle’s proposal for acquiring Sun Microsystems; it says that the EU’s concerns about...

Within a month after joining the blade server domain with its new Unified Computing System (UCS), the networking giant Cisco Systems on Thursday divulged additional details on its UCS offering for data centres, including pricing...

IBM’s proposal to acquire the rival software maker Sun Microsystems for $7 billion has nearly collapsed after the two companies failed to reach any agreement on price, according to the reports.   The acquisition talks...

In a bid to snare significant share in virtualisation market, IBM announced it snapped up Transitive Corp., a Los Gatos, California-based company, which specialises in cross-platform virtualisation technology. IBM said that the...

Most large companies ignore environmental issues when buying IT solutions, according to research. While 85% of IT buyers say that green factors are important in planning IT operations, only 25% have written green criteria into...

SWsoft has joined the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) as part of its new working group to develop standard methods of comparing virtualization performance for data center servers. SPEC is a non-profit organization...

A Samsung executive at the centre of a memory chip price fixing scandal has pleaded guilty and agreed to serve eight months in jail. Thomas Quinn agreed the penalty as part of a plea bargain with prosecutors.Samsung Electronics...