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Article | 28/11/2012 Amazon introduces data warehouse service

Adding to an already considerable set of Cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, pitching it as a l...

Article | 27/11/2012 Microsoft: 40 million Windows 8 licenses sold

Microsoft has sold 40 million licenses of the Windows 8 OS since its launch a month ago.

Article | 27/11/2012 BBVA moves to real-time banking

BBVA Compass, the U.S. subsidiary of the Madrid-based Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria banking group, is modernizing its core IT banking infrastructure...

Article | 27/11/2012 Fedora 18 finally makes beta

After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released.

Article | 21/11/2012 Supercomputers face growing resilience problems

As supercomputers grow more powerful, they'll also grow more vulnerable to failure, thanks to the increased amount of built-in componentry. A few rese...

Article | 16/11/2012 Dell buys automation software provider Gale Technologies

In a move aimed at strengthening its ability to offer converged systems, Dell has acquired infrastructure automation software provider Gale Technologi...

Article | 16/11/2012 World's most powerful big data machines charted on Graph 500

The Top500 is no longer the only ranking game in town: make way for the Graph 500, which tracks how well supercomputers handle big-data-styled workloa...

Article | 15/11/2012 Mellanox extends InfiniBand across the campus

Mellanox Technologies has introduced a new set of switches, the MetroX TX6000 series, that can stretch an InfiniBand connection across different build...

Article | 14/11/2012 SC2012: Top500 expects exascale computing by 2020

If the increase in supercomputer speeds continue at their current pace, we will see the first exascale machine by 2020, estimated the maintainers of t...

Article | 13/11/2012 Jaspersoft BI suite gets a new visualization engine

With the commercial release of version 5 of its self-named reporting and analysis suite, Jaspersoft has revamped the software's visualization engine, ...

Article | 13/11/2012 Bloomberg opens platform for third-party apps

Bloomberg has launched an app portal that will allow subscribers of its financial information service to access additional third-party functionality, ...

Article | 12/11/2012 Cray bumps IBM from Top500 supercomputer top spot

The U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed Titan system, a Cray XK7, has been anointed as the world's fastest super...

Article | 9/11/2012 NYC corporate partnership seeks fresh financial tech

A partnership of New York City businesses has put out a call for innovative financial technologies.

Article | 8/11/2012 Facebook boosts Hadoop with scheduling muscle

Facebook has beaten some of the limitations of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform, its engineers assert.

Article | 8/11/2012 Twitter error leads to reset passwords, confusion among users

Twitter appears to have reset the passwords for an undetermined portion of its user base because of a possible security breach.