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Article | 12/11/2010 Google releases data cleanser

Google has updated and re-released open-source software for cleaning, analyzing and transforming data sets, now called Google Refine.

Article | 11/11/2010 Sybase IQ updated for parallel processing

Database vendor Sybase is upgrading its column-oriented database, Sybase IQ, to run on a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture.

Article | 11/11/2010 Red Hat releases RHEL 6

Red Hat on Wednesday released version 6 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution.

Article | 10/11/2010 Oracle expands systems management suite

In an effort to ease the complexity of system administration, Oracle has expanded its Enterprise Manager software to include servers, operating system...

Article | 10/11/2010 Apache declares war on Oracle over Java

Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation has called upon other m...

Article | 9/11/2010 Microsoft fills out Hyper-V cloud ecosystem

Microsoft has partnered with six major hardware vendors to provide reference architectures that should help enterprises build private IaaS (Infrastruc...

Article | 8/11/2010 Microsoft releases F# under open source license

Microsoft has released into full open source the code of its functional programming language, called F#.

Article | 4/11/2010 Hopkins to build data analysis super machine

Disregarding the supercomputing community's insatiable thirst for FLOPS (floating point operations per second), the Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Univ...

Article | 4/11/2010 Oracle revs up cloud API

Joining a number of other vendors and multi-vendor initiatives in the race to standardize cloud computing, Oracle has released a set of APIs for runni...

Article | 2/11/2010 Informatica teams with Cloudera to ease Hadoop use

Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that it can work with Cloudera's Hadoop distribution, the two companies announced Monda...

Article | 29/10/2010 Microsoft quarterly results boosted by Windows, Xbox, Office

Healthy sales of Windows 7, Office 2010 and Xbox 360 consoles propelled Microsoft to US$5.41 billion in net income for its first fiscal quarter of 201...

Article | 29/10/2010 Wi-Fi won't kill the office LAN ... yet

While Wi-Fi has increasingly become the primary choice for office worker connectivity, it may be some time before it replaces wired networks altogethe...

Article | 29/10/2010 VMware's private cloud computing vision

VMware wants people to be able to access enterprise applications with the same ease and flexibility they enjoy from Facebook and Gmail. That is, on an...

Article | 28/10/2010 Chip giants investigate more power efficient chip design

A number of chip manufacturers and European research institutions have banded together to figure out how redesign microprocessors so that they consume...

Article | 27/10/2010 Microsoft Server 2008 gets virtualisation boost

Microsoft is updating the server version of its Windows operating system to give the OS more virtualisation capabilities.