IBM have created the world’s smallest magnetic computer memory bit using only 12 anti-ferromagnetically coupled atom bits. The experimental low-temperature memory is 100 times denser than current hard-disk drives and 150 times denser than solid-state memory chips, which use around one million atoms to store a single bit of information. 

 Under the 2 year global supply contract won by Info Stor in March this year, we have since delivered IT equipment to Costa Rica, Chile, Japan, New Zealand, Kuwait, France, Papua New Guinea, Mexico, USA (Alaska), Russia (Kirov) and Argentina.

The results:

1) HP 15m, 2) Dell 10.6m, 3) Lenovo 10.2m, 4) Acer 9.3m, 5) Asus 4.4m.

US and Europe declined while India and China gained, sales of netbooks declined, tablet sales not included.

Hewlett-Packard 17.9%, Acer Group 12.9%, Dell 12%, Lenovo 9.7%, Toshiba 5.4%, others 42.1%.

Info Stor has been awarded a contract to supply computer equipment to the sites of an organisation in 149 countries around the world. Some of the sites are in remote locations such as Antarctica, Ascension, St Helena Island, Cook Islands, BIOT/Chagos Archipelago, Tristian da Cuhna, Juan Fernandez Island and the Wake Islands.

Research shows that companies will purchase 10 million tablet devices in 2011, making up 25% of all tablet sales.

IBM has unveiled nanophotonics chip technology which integrates electrical and optical devices on the same piece of silcon, to enable computer chips to communicate using pulses of light instead of electrical signals. According to IBM the breakthrough could lead to significant improvements in performance.

Symantec has acquired Verisign’s Identity and Authentication Security business. The VeriSign check mark is the most recognized symbol of trust online with up to 250 million impressions every day on more than 90,000 websites in 160 countries. Symantec’s security solutions and the company’s Norton-branded suites protect more than one billion systems and users around the world.

 Tony Bates, Senior Vice President of Cisco has joined Skype as its Chief Executive Officer.

Available to order now. View all 3 models with their specifications and prices on our server page at www.info-stor.co.uk/servers

What effect would strike action by BT have on telephone and internet services used in your organisation? If you are concerned contact us to discuss how 3G broadband dongles or devices aggregating multiple 3G sim cards can be used as a contingency.

Microsoft Office 2010 will become generally available on 15 June 2010.

Surprise, surprise there are now claims that Windows 7 is now more widely installed than Vista. We knew it wouldn't take long but didn't expect it to happen quite this soon.

Microsoft have just announced their new operating system for smart phones called "Windows Phone 7 Series." We expect it to start appearing on new devices around the end of 2010.

Just announced: BES Express software will soon be available as a free download with free client access supporting up to 75 users on the same server as Microsoft Exchange or 2,000 users on a dedicated server. We expect the download to become available from 1 March 2010.

Info Stor are now supplying Seagate 2TB (yes, two TerraByte) 3.5" SATA Hard Drives for just £144.00!

Tivoli Foundations Application Manager provides the capabilities to quickly and comprehensively monitor alert and report on the performance and availability of your key IT infrastructure.

Analysts are predicting that up to 20% of businesses will have no IT assets by 2012. Trends in virtualisation, cloud services and employees running personal systems on company networks could lower the amount of IT hardware companies own.

The newly formed company called Acadia will sell 4 integrated "stacks" of products from it's 3 owners to be called "vblocks". Vblock 0 will be targeted at the SME market and the largest, vblock 4, will suit enterprise datacentres.

Dell have agreed to buy IT Services company Perot Systems, a company founded by former U.S presidential candidate Ross Perot. Perot Systems generates much of its income from government and the health-care sector which is set to grow as patient records are digitised.