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Article | 6/02/2013 US Federal Reserve admits to breached system

Malicious attackers gained entry to internal U.S. Federal Reserve System computers, illegally copying a database of banking executive contact informat...

Article | 5/02/2013 Python gets a big data boost from DARPA

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the developmen...

Article | 5/02/2013 HP's new ALM service puts sticky notes in the cloud

Betting that it can help agile development teams finally rid themselves of messy hand-written sticky notes, Hewlett-Packard is launching a new hosted ...

Article | 5/02/2013 MySQL 5.6 tackles NoSQL competitors

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Ca...

Article | 4/02/2013 Opscode Chef gets a hand from Facebook

For a complete rewrite of its flagship Chef configuration management software, Opscode got a hand from one of its largest customers, Facebook.

Article | 1/02/2013 IBM bulks up analysis muscle with Star Analytics buy

Adding more performance management muscle to its line of analysis software and services, IBM is acquiring the software assets of Star Analytics.

Article | 31/01/2013 Cyberwarfare now menacing the enterprise, Kaspersky Lab says

Enterprise security managers have yet another worry to add to their list: cyberwarfare attacks.

Article | 30/01/2013 Microsoft embraces open-source Git for development tools

Once vehemently opposed to open-source software, Microsoft has warmed to the development model over the years and will now take the unusual step of in...

Article | 29/01/2013 Amazon launches video transcoder service

Amazon Web Services has launched a beta of a new Web service that can execute in the cloud the heavy data-crunching job of transcoding video.

Article | 24/01/2013 Key Linux contributor Alan Cox steps down

Alan Cox, one of the chief contributors to the Linux kernel, has taken a step down from his volunteer duties, citing the need to attend to family matt...

Article | 23/01/2013 Symantec streamlines software lines

Security software provider Symantec is reworking its sales strategy, reorganizing software lines, slimming middle management and increasing marketing ...

Article | 23/01/2013 VMware takes a $30 million interest in Puppet

Virtualization software provider VMware has invested US$30 million in Puppet Labs, which makes a widely used, open-source operations management softwa...

Article | 22/01/2013 IBM boosts full-year profit despite lower revenue

Making the most of a sluggish world economy, IBM managed to increase its net income by 5 percent in 2012, even though revenue shrank by 2 percent.

Article | 22/01/2013 Red Hat folds ManageIQ purchase into cloud control stack

Bulking up on tools for managing hybrid clouds, Red Hat plans to fold the software it acquired last month in the ManageIQ purchase into its own CloudF...

Article | 22/01/2013 VoltDB expands into Web operations

Responding to a growing user base of online service providers, VoltDB has outfitted its namesake in-memory database management system with additional ...