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Article | 7/04/2011 Dell to invest $1 billion to boost data storage products
Dell plans to invest US$1 billion over the next three years to bolster its data storage products to business customers, with the money going toward th...
Article | 7/04/2011 10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud
High-performance computing expert Jason Stowe recently asked two of his engineers a simple question: Can you build a 10,000-core cluster in the cloud?
Article | 7/04/2011 Happy 20th birthday, Linux: The celebrations begin
The Linux Foundation on Wednesday kicked off what will be several months of celebrations in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Linux operating syste...
Article | 7/04/2011 Linux development to get high availability push
The Linux Foundation has formed a new working group to speed development within the Linux ecosystem that would make the operating system kernel more s...
Article | 6/04/2011 Seagate shows world's thinnest portable drive
Storage giant Seagate has announced that it will put on sale what it claims is the world slimmest ever portable hard drive, and for once the hyperbole...
Article | 5/04/2011 Intel, Micron to double SSD density by summer
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - Intel and Micron plan to further shrink NAND circuitry, doubling the density of their flash chips and further reducing the cost ...
Article | 6/04/2011 New servers feature Intel's 10-core Xeon E7 processors
Top manufacturers including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Cray have announced new high-end servers sporting Intel's 10-core Xeon E7 series of chips, ...
Article | 6/04/2011 Intel pushes savings with new 10-core server chips
Intel on Tuesday announced the Xeon E7 series of chips with 10 cores, which the company said could help cut power and maintenance costs in data center...
Article | 5/04/2011 IBM: Watson could boost confidence of financial industry
The software that helped IBM's Watson computer reign victorious on the Jeopardy game show in February could also help the financial industry assess ri...
Article | 5/04/2011 Oracle releases beta for Express Edition of 11g database
Oracle 11g Express Edition (XE), the free-of-charge version of Oracle's flagship database, is now in beta.
Article | 4/04/2011 IEEE hopes to drive cloud computing standards
Standards organization IEEE has decided to get involved in cloud computing, starting with two development projects related to cloud interoperability, ...
Article | 31/03/2011 Google's App Engine gets new search feature
The Python SDK (Software Development Kit) for Google's cloud platform App Engine has a new search feature that can be used to build notification, moni...
Article | 31/03/2011 Hadoop Hive gets production polish
Edging ever closer to enterprise software maturity, the Hive data warehouse software has been updated with new capabilities considered essential for p...
Article | 30/03/2011 Oracle rumors swirl as Lawson users wait and wonder
Lawson Software customers still don't know the fate of the company following Infor's roughly US$1.8 billion acquisition offer earlier this month, with...
Article | 30/03/2011 Startup looks to poach Oracle customers after Itanium move
Oracle's announcement last week that it will stop developing software for Intel's Itanium processor has database startup EnterpriseDB looking to capit...
Article | 29/03/2011 Dedicated hardware now available in Amazon's cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can now run their cloud applications on hardware dedicated to them, the company said on Monday.
Article | 25/03/2011 Kingston launches Class 10 microSDHC cards
Kingston today announced it has started shipping 4GB and 8GB Class 10 microSDHC cards, offering a minimum sustained write rate of 10 megabytes per sec...
Article | 25/03/2011 Server virtualization: Six management myths
During the past three to five years, when most companies began rolling out virtual servers in earnest as replacements for physical servers, acceptance...
Article | 25/03/2011 Dell's Compellent unit to add dedupe, global file system
Storage products from Dell's Compellent unit will integrate technologies from Dell's earlier acquisitions to better enable these products to target la...
Article | 23/03/2011 Nine features of upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.3
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) is expected to release a major update to its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) for Microsoft Exchange and I...

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