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Article | 24/05/2013 Puppet gets a more expressive configuration language

With an update to its namesake configuration tool, Puppet Labs has introduced a programming language designed to give administrators more flexibility ...

Article | 23/05/2013 IBM preps SmartCloud for real-time analytics

Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis.

Article | 21/05/2013 VMware launches network-savvy cloud service

VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator fr...

Article | 21/05/2013 IBM launches Watson customer service smart bot

Yoking cognitive computing with customer service, IBM has launched a system that can reference large amounts of unstructured data to help companies be...

Article | 21/05/2013 Atlassian gives Jira a makeover

Atlassian has revamped the Jira bug tracking tool with a new user interface, which the company said will offer faster navigation and a simplified work...

Article | 20/05/2013 Planview overhauls the look of its portfolio management software

Planview has updated the interface of its flagship project portfolio management (PPM) software to make it easier to navigate and appealing to a wider ...

Article | 16/05/2013 Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs,...

Article | 16/05/2013 Google eases Android app development with a new IDE

Google has introduced an IDE (integrated developer environment) aimed at easing development of Android apps.

Article | 14/05/2013 Google makes Go faster

Google has updated its Go programming language, making it faster and more suitable for multicore processors.

Article | 14/05/2013 Microsoft rushes Explorer 8 patch release

Just 11 days after issuing an advisory, Microsoft has released a patch for a bug in Internet Explorer 8 that bedeviled the U.S. Department of Labor ea...

Article | 14/05/2013 Rackspace to help customers debug their programs

Facing fierce competition in the market for cloud services, hosting provider Rackspace has pledged to help its users debug the programs they'll run on...

Article | 13/05/2013 HP updates IT automation suite for cloud deployments

Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management too...

Article | 10/05/2013 HP Q&A: Converged Cloud is company's chief initiative

Saar Gillai, named head of Hewlett-Packard's Cloud operations in January, is on the hot seat.

Article | 8/05/2013 Facebook to design an open source switch

As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

Article | 8/05/2013 VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper

Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise larg...