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Article | 23/04/2013 MuleSoft catches the API fever, buys ProgrammableWeb

Following in the footsteps of Intel and CA Technologies, open source middleware provider MuleSoft has acquired a vendor of API (Application Programmin...

Article | 22/04/2013 CA Technologies buys Layer 7 for API smarts

CA Technologies is acquiring Layer 7 Technologies, a purveyor of tools for managing and securing application programming interfaces (APIs).

Article | 22/04/2013 IBM snatches UrbanCode for DevOps prowess

Sensing a need among its customers for faster software development, IBM has acquired UrbanCode, a provider of tools suited for the emerging practice o...

Article | 18/04/2013 IBM's revenue deflated in 2013's first quarter

Unable to close a number of large mainframe and software deals by the end of the quarter, IBM has reported a 5 percent decline in revenue to US$23.4 b...

Article | 17/04/2013 Intel acquires Mashery for planned services suite

Intel has purchased Mashery, a provider or API management tools, in the chip maker's latest move to expand into software and services.

Article | 17/04/2013 Microsoft moves to optional two-factor authentication

Following similar initiatives by Apple, Google and Facebook, Microsoft is enabling two-factor authentication for its Microsoft Account service, the lo...

Article | 16/04/2013 Red Hat, Hortonworks prep OpenStack for Hadoop

Merging the worlds of big data and cloud computing, Red Hat, Hortonworks and Hadoop integrator Mirantis are jointly building a software program, calle...

Article | 15/04/2013 Red Hat releases community OpenStack distribution

Red Hat has launched a community version of its still-in-development OpenStack distribution, and it also released a preview of the enterprise edition ...

Article | 15/04/2013 Citrix bequeaths Xen to the Linux Foundation

In an effort to attract a more diverse set of contributors, enterprise software vendor Citrix has donated its open source Xen hypervisor to the Linux ...

Article | 15/04/2013 Rackspace to offer OpenStack deployments for service providers

Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as ...

Article | 11/04/2013 IBM bets $1 billion on Flash storage

The hard drive will soon be dead, at least for most uses in the enterprise, IBM is betting. The company is undertaking a major strategic initiative --...

Article | 10/04/2013 CA Technologies sues AppDynamics for patent pilfering

CA Technologies is suing a rival in the Application Performance Management (APM) market, accusing AppDynamics of using three of CA's patented technolo...

Article | 9/04/2013 Microsoft's April Patch Tuesday brings no Pwn2Own fix

System administrators and IT security pros can take bit of a breather: Microsoft has issued a comparatively light set of patches for this edition of i...

Article | 9/04/2013 Red Hat JBoss Data Grid now spans data centers

Red Hat has revised its JBoss Data Grid software package, which now offers the ability to replicate copies of data across different data centers, and ...

Article | 9/04/2013 Novell CEO plots company's return

Two decades ago, Novell's network operating system software was almost ubiquitous in the enterprise. Now, its current president wants to restore Novel...