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Article | 20/02/2013 Linaro extends Linux ARM to networking gear

Hoping to extend Linux's reach to ARM-based networking equipment, the not-for-profit engineering group Linaro has launched an initiative to develop co...

Article | 19/02/2013 Oracle sale of Lustre welcomed by HPC users

Oracle has sold assets related to the Lustre parallel distributed file system to high-performance computing storage vendor Xyratex, which has pledged ...

Article | 15/02/2013 Salesforce.com's Heroku responds to scalability complaint

Insufficient documentation on how to performance-tune a legacy Ruby on Rails stack led to a highly publicized complaint from one of the largest custom...

Article | 14/02/2013 Salesforce.com's Heroku frustrates rapidly growing Rap Genius

One of the largest customers of Salesforce.com's Heroku has charged that the performance of the platform as a service (PaaS) has degraded since Heroku...

Article | 13/02/2013 Opera moves to the WebKit rendering engine

Creating some consternation in the Web development community, Opera Software is switching from a home-built rendering engine to the more widely used o...

Article | 12/02/2013 Microsoft monthly patches touch Exchange, Windows, Explorer

System administrators overseeing Microsoft Exchange deployments should take a close look at Microsoft's latest round of security patches. In addition ...

Article | 11/02/2013 Linux Foundation releases secure boot loader

Freeing the way for independent Linux distributions to be installed on Windows 8 computers, the Linux Foundation has released software that will allow...

Article | 8/02/2013 Google offers tips on reducing web system latency

Running the world's most popular website, Google's engineers know a thing or two about keeping a site responsive under very high demand. In the latest...

Article | 7/02/2013 LibreOffice 4.0 speaks content management

With the release of LibreOffice 4.0, the Document Foundation continues to makes strides in preparing the open source office suite for enterprise use, ...

Article | 6/02/2013 US Federal Reserve admits to breached system

Malicious attackers gained entry to internal U.S. Federal Reserve System computers, illegally copying a database of banking executive contact informat...

Article | 5/02/2013 Python gets a big data boost from DARPA

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the developmen...

Article | 5/02/2013 HP's new ALM service puts sticky notes in the cloud

Betting that it can help agile development teams finally rid themselves of messy hand-written sticky notes, Hewlett-Packard is launching a new hosted ...

Article | 5/02/2013 MySQL 5.6 tackles NoSQL competitors

With MySQL 5.6, released Tuesday, Oracle has updated the open-source database to make it more competitive with NoSQL data stores such as MariaDB or Ca...

Article | 4/02/2013 Opscode Chef gets a hand from Facebook

For a complete rewrite of its flagship Chef configuration management software, Opscode got a hand from one of its largest customers, Facebook.

Article | 1/02/2013 IBM bulks up analysis muscle with Star Analytics buy

Adding more performance management muscle to its line of analysis software and services, IBM is acquiring the software assets of Star Analytics.