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Article | 16/05/2013 Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs,...

Article | 16/05/2013 Google eases Android app development with a new IDE

Google has introduced an IDE (integrated developer environment) aimed at easing development of Android apps.

Article | 14/05/2013 Google makes Go faster

Google has updated its Go programming language, making it faster and more suitable for multicore processors.

Article | 14/05/2013 Microsoft rushes Explorer 8 patch release

Just 11 days after issuing an advisory, Microsoft has released a patch for a bug in Internet Explorer 8 that bedeviled the U.S. Department of Labor ea...

Article | 14/05/2013 Rackspace to help customers debug their programs

Facing fierce competition in the market for cloud services, hosting provider Rackspace has pledged to help its users debug the programs they'll run on...

Article | 13/05/2013 HP updates IT automation suite for cloud deployments

Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management too...

Article | 10/05/2013 HP Q&A: Converged Cloud is company's chief initiative

Saar Gillai, named head of Hewlett-Packard's Cloud operations in January, is on the hot seat.

Article | 8/05/2013 Facebook to design an open source switch

As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

Article | 8/05/2013 VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper

Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise larg...

Article | 7/05/2013 Cray offers a more modest supercomputer for the enterprise

Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market.

Article | 6/05/2013 Dell boosts Cloud portfolio with Enstratius buy

Adding to its portfolio of IT management software, Dell has acquired Enstratius (formerly called EnStratus), which offers software for managing worklo...

Article | 6/05/2013 Mozilla, Otoy team on JavaScript video codec

The Mozilla Foundation and graphic rendering technology company Otoy have built a video codec, written with JavaScript and WebGL, that would eliminate...

Article | 1/05/2013 VMware sells WaveMaker assets to Pramati

A little more than two years after purchasing Java tool vendor WaveMaker, VMware has sold the assets of the company to the Pramati software engineerin...

Article | 1/05/2013 Hadoop gets more search with MapR, Cloudera releases

Users of the Hadoop data processing platform now have two more search engines to help them sort through their mountains of information.

Article | 30/04/2013 10gen expands MongoDB with storage service

Open source database provider 10gen is expanding into storage services, offering a hosted backup service for its flagship MongoDB data store.