Electronics engineering company, Invensys, announced preliminary year end results whilst unveiling plans to focus on the development of intelligent automation systems for manufacturing processes in the petrochemical, food, power and rail industries.
The German giant has refused to comment on the specifics of the offer, but has admitted it has long been interested in acquiring an automation unit. Honeywell announced it was considering ceasing its automation activities following poor financial...
But IT providers use different labels for this automation and are addressing various aspects of the overall goal. IBM is embedding automation features across its existing products, including servers, databases, middleware and systems management...
The data centre automation initiative competes with similar efforts from rivals such as IBM, with its autonomic computing plan, and Hewlett-Packard, with its Utility Data Center. Sun has already released the first N1 products, which are designed to...
The NHS' £6bn IT programme will merely provide the kind of bog standard automation familiar to the private sector for a decade by excluding innovative small and medium sized IT vendors, according to new research.
Degree's Adaptivcool system consists of a series of sensors, hubs and other cooling components linked together. This cooling system pinpoints hot spots inside a computer room and directs cool air from the room's air conditioner to that spot.