SMBs are turning to the cloud instead of building an infrastructure to deal with compliance or e-discovery needs, or to complement their in-house mail and collaboration tools.

IBM today announced an agreement with the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) to evaluate the potential impact of electric vehicles on the UK electricity grid. The project will also assess the infrastructure required to achieve a mass market for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in the UK.

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A new template for Ingres database eliminates the burden for IT managers of managing the lifecycle of the operating system or the middleware database component within their appliances.
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Novell and open source database provider Ingres March 18 announced that they have hooked up to make the long-established, enterprise-class Ingres DB available in Novell's SUSE Studio. SUSE Studio is a toolkit used by independent software vendors to build virtual machine-based app...

The Minnesota company's Virtualization Performance Pack is optimized to work with the three major hypervisors: VMware ESX, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V, and remove I/O bottlenecks.
- Xiotech, which positions its storage software as quot;intelligent quot; because it can store files automatically across different neworks, March 18 released a new virtualization optimization package that it claims improves the speed and scale of its products. The Eden Praire, Minn.-based company...