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x86 at 30: What's next?

What is instore for the x86? Intel argues even greater success. With constant development it can keep the competition at bay.

Thirty years ago, Intel. introduced its first 16-bit microprocessor, the 8086, with a splashy ad heralding "the dawn of a new era." Overblown? Sure, but also prophetic. While the 8086 was slow to take off, its underlying architecture, later referred to as x86, would become one of technology's most impressive success stories.

Barts Hospital adopts co-operative Wi-Fi

Healthcare has led the charge for centralised Wi-Fi. A leading London hospital takes a contrary position and plumps for Aerohive's controller-free system.

NASA employee scammed with "dating"attack

The latest targeted attack incident being studied by security pros - a simple online dating scam that endangered NASA's secrets.

Test automation: Making IT easier

"It used to take four people five days to test the software every month," says Kevin Bingham, vice president of IT at Arizona Federal Credit Union. "Now, we can do it in six hours."

E.on's roadmap to reduced energy consumption

Real business drivers for 'Green' or sustainable IT are now very clear, despite the industry hype and greenwashing. The question for CIOs and IT managers is not 'should I be doing something about Green IT' but 'how do I implement Green IT?'

WLAN overcomes despair in the T5 departure lounge

How do you build wireless services for a giant building that contains multiple businesses, millions of users and has very high security demands?

WAN acceleration on the ocean wave

Two cruise lines try WAN optimisation, one choosing a single-ended solution and the other picking two-ended technology.

Servers go front and centre

General Motors might be globalising its business, but in the area of servers, the auto-maker is thinking small.

Tesco storm the US with Box offering

Grocery giant Tesco is creating a storm in the US market with its 'Tesco in a Box' set of systems. CIO takes a look inside the package with Tesco’s group technology director, Mike Yorwerth

Gannett’s virtualisation vet lets us pick his brain

Eric Kuzmack, IT architect at Gannett newspaper publisher talks about using virtualisation, and the problems of supervising an enormous IT infrastructure.

Customer Success Story: Associated Newspapers

Associated Newspapers safeguards the production of its publications and improves availability for journalists in remote locations.

Customer Success Story: Columbus Children's Hospital

Sign-on simplification helps Columbus Children’s Hospital improve employee satisfaction and patient safety.

Met Office streamlines processes for quicker development

This summer, with its terrible floods, has ensured that one area of government has been particularly busy – the Met Office.

How Dow Chemical got RFID

Tracking chemicals through the manufacturing and distribution process is a critical requirement for Dow Chemical, to ensure safety and operational efficiency.

LinuxWorld: eBay imparts datacentre knowledge

Imagine creating and managing a datacentre that handles 241 million registered users and sells a car a minute, an auto part every second, and a piece of diamond jewellery every two minutes.

A network-upgrade horror story... part 1

An IT executive tells the key lessons that he learnt during a four-year project to revamp his university's whole network.

Software fights Underground leaf problem

One of London's most heavily used Underground lines can run more quickly during autumn, thanks to a software program that predicts the impact of an unlikely enemy: falling leaves.

Mac attack!

It's little things like the small silver Apple logo on CIO Dale Frantz's crisp white shirt that signal the sea change in the works at Auto Warehousing Company.

Welcome to world's largest supercomputing grid

With 20 petabytes of storage, and more than 280 teraflops of computing power, TeraGrid combines the processing power of supercomputers across the US

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x86 at 30: What's next?

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