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Article | 8/09/2011 HP launches cloud service beta

Carving out a space in the growing market for cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has launched a beta IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) offering, called...

Article | 7/09/2011 Oracle adds new installer, failover to Windows MySQL

Oracle has updated the commercial edition of its MySQL database for Windows, adding a graphical installer and the ability to do failover clustering, t...

Article | 7/09/2011 NSA extends label-based security to big data stores

The National Security Agency has submitted new label-based data store software, called Accumulo, to the Apache Software Foundation, in hopes that othe...

Article | 3/09/2011 Delphi, C++ to goose desktop apps

In an attempt to enliven staid business applications, development tools vendor Embarcadero has updated its RAD Studio IDE (integrated developer enviro...

Article | 1/09/2011 Ruby on Rails 3.1 will make the apps run faster

Ruby on Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson has released version 3.1 of his open-source Web application development framework, adding new features ...

Article | 1/09/2011 IBM acquiring i2 for criminal mastermind software

Expanding its portfolio of analytic software for state and local governments, IBM is in the process of acquiring security analytics software provider ...

Article | 31/08/2011 VMworld brings flurry of third-party product launches

While VMware had no shortage of new and updated products to debut at its VMworld conference, being held this week in Las Vegas, many VMware partners a...

Article | 30/08/2011 VMWorld 2011: VMware refreshes View virtual desktop software

Keeping pace with its rivals in the VDI (virtual desktop interface) market, VMware has updated its desktop virtualization software so that users can n...

Article | 30/08/2011 VMware CEO: Cloud to end computer desktop era

VMware CEO Paul Maritz urged customers to think beyond the desktop computer. It is a dead metaphor, he insisted, one ill-suited for today's workforce.

Article | 29/08/2011 VMware launches cloud-packaged Postgres

Augmenting its line of software to support cloud deployments, VMware has created a package for running the Postgres database in a virtualized environm...

Article | 29/08/2011 Microsoft: TPC should also measure database availability

The Transaction Processing Performance Council should add an additional metric for availability to its set of database performance benchmarks, Microso...

Article | 26/08/2011 NoSQL offers users scalability, flexibility, speed

Users of NoSQL databases and data processing frameworks such as CouchDB and Hadoop are deploying these new technologies for their speed, scalability a...

Article | 25/08/2011 Citrix personalizes, extends virtual desktops

Working to boost the versatility and speed of virtual desktops, Citrix Systems has updated its XenDesktop software to allow users to personalize their...

Article | 25/08/2011 'NewSQL' could combine the best of SQL and NoSQL

Users who eschew traditional relational databases in favor of the newly emerging NoSQL databases might be "throwing the baby out with the bath water,"...

Article | 24/08/2011 VMware launches a developer edition for cloud service

Hoping to spark developer interest in building cloud applications, VMware has issued a free version of its Cloud Foundry Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) ...