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Article | 15/01/2013 Microsoft System Center further fuses Azure with on-premises assets

With the release of the first service pack for Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft is taking another step in its ambitious goal of helping custome...

Article | 15/01/2013 Oracle launches line of on-premise IaaS systems

Oracle has launched a set of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) systems that companies can run in-house and pay for on a monthly basis, a project the ...

Article | 14/01/2013 HP launches converged Cloud business unit

Banking on the trend toward Cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has created a stand-alone organization to oversee the company's hosted computing services...

Article | 11/01/2013 Java put on a regular release schedule

Starting with Java 8, to be released in September, the development team behind the widely used programming language plans to release a new version of ...

Article | 10/01/2013 IBM top patent producer 20 years running

IBM has always been bullish on patents and 2012 proved to be no exception. IBM once again amassed more patents than any other company in a single year...

Article | 8/01/2013 Google offers free neighborhood Wi-Fi in NYC Chelsea district

In a neighborly gesture, Google, with the help of a local development association, is rolling out free public Wi-Fi to the area surrounding its New Yo...

Article | 7/01/2013 C variants rule programming language roost

Information technology may thrive on the new, but it is heavily supported by a programming language more than 40 years old.

Article | 3/01/2013 Cassandra 1.2 better geared for 'fat servers'

Adjusting to changes in corporate hardware buying habits, the Apache Software Foundation's Cassandra NoSQL distributed database has been updated to be...

Article | 2/01/2013 Canonical prepares Ubuntu for smartphones

Further expanding from its core mission of providing Linux distributions for desktop computers and servers, Canonical is developing a version of Ubunt...

Article | 24/12/2012 2012: The year that coding became de rigueur

Does true literacy now include the ability to write software programs, just as it does the ability to read, write and do sums?

Article | 24/12/2012 Making games of enterprise software

Thanks to computers and the Internet, everyone is playing games these days.

Article | 21/12/2012 Amazon Web Services accommodates big data storage

Eyeing the growing market for big data analysis, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a storage package, called High Storage, that can offer fast ...

Article | 20/12/2012 Red Hat to acquire ManageIQ cloud software provider

Enriching its portfolio of cloud management software, Red Hat is acquiring ManageIQ, a provider of software that helps organizations manage their virt...

Article | 20/12/2012 New Ada 2012 ISO standard offers security boost

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published as a standard the latest version of the Ada programming language, Ada 2012, whi...

Article | 19/12/2012 IBM plans to buy e-discovery firm StoredIQ

In a move to expand its portfolio of information governance software, IBM is acquiring e-discovery software vendor StoredIQ.