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Article | 23/02/2011 Microsoft offers free Azure trial
Recalling all those AOL disks promising hundreds of hours of free usage (minus the disks), Microsoft is offering up to 750 free hours of use on its Az...
Article | 22/02/2011 Acer returning to U.S. server market
Acer, the No. 4 PC maker in the U.S., has released a line of servers and storage products for this market.
Article | 19/02/2011 Brain behind IBM's Watson not unlike a human's
IBM's Watson supercomputer, which shellacked Jeopardy's top human champions during airings of the game show this week, is powered by 90 servers and a ...
Article | 19/02/2011 IBM's Watson makes it official -- humanity is toast
"I for one welcome our new computer overlords" -- that's a quote from Ken Jennings, the guy who used to be the world's biggest "Jeopardy" egghead unti...
Article | 19/02/2011 Yahoo to open-source cloud-serving engine
Yahoo is developing an internal cloud-serving engine to boost its own productivity, and intends to release the code as an open source this year.
Article | 18/02/2011 Buffalo launches Android app for NAS access
Storage and networking vendor, Buffalo, has launched a free app for Android smartphones and tablets. The WebAccess A app offers access to Buffalo netw...
Article | 18/02/2011 Intel to ship 10-core Xeon processor in first half
An Intel spokesman on Thursday said its upcoming 10-core Xeon processor, code-named Westmere-EX, will reach servers in the first half of this year.
Article | 16/02/2011 Disposable flash drives of the future
Here's a new concept for spies (or people who like to throw things away) -- disposable "Flashkus" flash drives.
Article | 15/02/2011 Google adds set-up wizard for Apps
Google, which has been sharply focused on strengthening its Apps suite for large enterprises, has introduced a set-up wizard that seems aimed primaril...
Article | 15/02/2011 AMD on track to ship Bulldozer server chips in Q3
Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming Opteron server processors based on the new Bulldozer architecture will become available during the third quarter, the...
Article | 13/02/2011 Ultimate hoarding: Study finds mankind could store 295 exabytes of data
University of Southern California researchers have put a number on how much information humans can store, communicate and compute: 295 exabytes, give ...
Article | 11/02/2011 Competitors battle Oracle for MySQL support dollars
Oracle is facing a series of challenges for MySQL support revenues from third-party providers who say they can provide equal or better service for the...
Article | 10/02/2011 Microsoft names new server and tools president
Microsoft has appointed its online services veteran, Satya Nadella, to head its US$15 billion server and tools business, the company announced Wednesd...
Article | 8/02/2011 DEC founder Kenneth Olsen mourned by computer industry
Kenneth Olsen, the computer industry pioneer who co-founded and led minicomputer king Digital Equipment Corp. for 35 years, died at the age of 84 on S...
Article | 8/02/2011 SSD array vendor Violin gets $35M in funding
In a sign of the times for solid-state drive (SSD) popularity, Violin Memory today announced that it has received $35 million in series B investment f...
Article | 5/02/2011 Microsoft fixes cookie security bug in Windows Azure
Microsoft has refreshed the Windows Azure software development kit to fix a bug that can expose cookie information to clients who have built applicati...
Article | 5/02/2011 ARM CEO: No rush to design a 64-bit server chip
ARM is considering 64-bit extensions for its CPU designs, but their absence today doesn't harm its chances in the server market, ARM CEO Warren East s...
Article | 5/02/2011 Microsoft previews Windows Small Business Server 2011
Microsoft has released a preview of the next version of its integrated package for small organizations, Windows Small Business Server 2011.
Article | 2/02/2011 Servers preloaded with Amazon-friendly cloud software
Ubuntu and Dell have come up with a scheme to make it easier for Amazon EC2 customers to shift workloads to and from the cloud -- by shipping Dell ser...
Article | 2/02/2011 Windows Azure turns 1 in 'anemic' market
One year after Microsoft introduced Windows Azure, the platform-as-a-service market is only about 1/20 the size of the rival infrastructure-as-a-servi...

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