Clouds clear as Microsoft gives Azure a January launch date
And lifts the lid on features from Dallas to Sydney

Jaguar races to fastest supercomputer glory with AMD's juice
News in brief: 1.75 petaflops per second for the Cray XT5

Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
Whitehall's green IT champion doesn't like pies with his chips

Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
Update: It's becoming a reality…

Oracle-Sun deal draws official objections from EC
But Oracle hits back claiming "profound misunderstanding" of open source

Server virtualisation: Why CIOs should start small but think big
Market stats, tips and why your virtualisation projects could lead you up into the clouds

2010: When IT budgets start to grow again
But CIOs should ask the CFO for more money now, before all that ageing hardware fails

CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
Tech teams told 'do the housekeeping' as servers now cost more to power than to buy

Bletchley Park WWII codebreakers honoured
Foreign Secretary meets veterans who helped crack the Engima

IT chiefs ignoring datacentre energy use
How can you cut carbon if you don't know what you're using?

The right skills to boost your pay packet unveiled
Are outsourcing experts or software specialists better off?

White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
"Building datacentre after datacentre" cannot continue, says Obama administration

Oracle-Sun steaming ahead with joint plans despite EU probe
Making hay while the Sun shines

Virtualisation: Forget datacenters, think ordinary people
VMware sets its sights on your work PC and your phone...

Oracle-Sun deal to go under the EU's microscope
European Commission to take a deeper look at proposed $7.4bn buy

Google says sorry for Gmail's two-hour outage: Blames 'miscalculation'
Work designed to improve availability takes down service

Datacentres get a bridge to the Amazon Web Services cloud
Enterprises seeking virtual private clouds

Could new internet routing chop 40 per cent off Google's electricity bill?
New tech to let web giants pick their datacentres

SQL Server: Developers get sneak peak of next version
2008 R2 opened up for review

Microsoft Office, Windows get critical flaw fixes in latest patch batch
Nine patches destined to fix 19 flaws

Twitter goes down as another attack hits
Microblogging service suffers outage for the second time in seven days

Inside Caffeine: Google's shot in the arm for search results
The biggest search revamp in years gets underway

Cisco CEO: Green shoots of recovery spotted at last
The purse strings begin to loosen in the US, but the UK remains cautious

Cern pins down latest Large Hadron Collider delays to leaky hose
Damaged sectors need heating to detect repairs

Leaky pipes cause more delays to Large Hadron Collider's restart
Vacuum conCerns

Labyrinthine IT systems lose MoD almost £300m
Error! Error!

Microsoft on the hunt for Windows Home Server update testers
'Help us get it out the door before Windows 7... '

Microsoft puts flesh on Azure's bones with pricing details
The clouds are clearing...

Large Hadron Collider's grid gets stressed
Cern baby Cern

Heat wave? No sweat for CIOs
CIO Jury: "I have also started to do rain dances"

Work-for-free techies help save British Airways £2m
BA CIO on how IT cutbacks will help the airline survive