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Article | 15/12/2012 YouTube scales MySQL with Go code

YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scal...

Article | 14/12/2012 New TPC benchmark compares virtual workloads

Extending its testing methodologies to the realm of virtualization, the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has introduced a benchmark th...

Article | 13/12/2012 Vint Cerf: The Internet doesn't need the ITU's help

Work under way to draft new regulations at the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai this week could harm the Internet,...

Article | 12/12/2012 WordPress 3.5 gets a media management makeover

WordPress, the world's most widely used blogging software, has made it easier for people to share photos and videos of their cats. Enterprises that us...

Article | 10/12/2012 Microwave vies with fiber for fast finance transport

In the world of high-frequency trading, where being ahead of the competition by a few milliseconds can mean profits worth millions of dollars, finance...

Article | 10/12/2012 IBM advances silicon nanophotonics

IBM has demonstrated that it is commercially feasible to bake optical circuitry into silicon processors using existing fabrication techniques, which c...

Article | 6/12/2012 IntelliJ gets a makeover for speed, Java 8

JetBrains has thoroughly revamped its IntelliJ Idea IDE for Java, redesigning the user interface on top and installing a new, faster compiler undernea...

Article | 5/12/2012 Citrix acquires Zenprise to extend BYOD stack

Extending its line of enterprise management software for mobile devices, Citrix is acquiring device management software provider Zenprise.

Article | 5/12/2012 Amazon connects node.js to AWS services

Amazon is providing a way for one of the most popular JavaScript extensions, node.js, to easily access the Amazon Web Service collection of cloud comp...

Article | 5/12/2012 Red Hat RHEV gets storage savvy

Less than a year after a major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEL) package, Red Hat has upgraded the software to offer more advance...

Article | 3/12/2012 Tumblr patches hole after malicious site attack

Popular online social networking site Tumblr was ravaged on Monday by an Internet worm that spewed racist and inflammatory messages across thousands o...

Article | 3/12/2012 Cisco Catalyst 6500 vs. Cisco Nexus 7000

These days, Cisco network administrators are a nation divided.

Article | 3/12/2012 Epic Interconnect Clash! InfiniBand vs. Gigabit Ethernet

A few years back, picking the protocol to link your computers together into a network was a no-brainer. The servers in a mid-sized data center were wi...

Article | 29/11/2012 Amazon launches workflow orchestration service

Users of Amazon Web Services will soon be able to orchestrate workflows across different AWS services and their own internal resources, using a new or...

Article | 28/11/2012 Mathematica 9 offers a bigger bucket of formulas

Hoping to ease the mathematical labors of researchers across all scientific disciplines, Wolfram Research has added more capabilities to its flagship ...