Data Center

Group asks IRS to repeal tax of personal mobile-phone use

The 20-year-old rule taxes personal use of mobile phones provided by businesses

Cautious optimism guides CIO hiring plans

Most report no plans to add staff, but fewer intend to pursue cuts in coming months

Court allows suit against bank for lax security

Citizens Financial Bank should have offered strong authentication, plaintiffs claim

Amazon objects to Google Books settlement

The online retailer is among the many organizations opposing the proposed agreement

VMware cloud initiative raises vendor lock-in concerns

Rival vendors claim cloud services should be hypervisor-agnostic

EMC, LSI, IBM, Iomega roll out midrange, SMB arrays

Supercomputer uses flash storage drives

San Diego Computing Center says flash memory will help analyze and solve data-mining problems faster

Server revenue reached new lows in Q2, IDC says

Worldwide factory server revenue is the worst since 1996, when IDC started tracking the numbers

Sun leads way as server sales take a record plunge in Q2

IDC says Oracle merger delay may be taking toll on Sun's hardware business

Microsoft Hyper-V still a work in progress, group says

But Microsoft's next virtualization release will close the gap with its rivals