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Article | 22/07/2010 Terabyte-sized Java apps now possible

The new version of the Terracotta distributed Java caching software is able, for the first time, to aggregate more than a terabyte of pooled memory fo...

Article | 15/07/2010 Cloud tools give Microsoft partners a jump-start

Microsoft is giving its partners tools that could help drive more business to its cloud-based services.

Article | 15/07/2010 Oracle data grid scales .NET to new heights

A new version of Oracle's data grid software will allow Microsoft .NET applications to scale to the same large multi-server environments long enjoyed ...

Article | 15/07/2010 CouchDB NoSQL database ready for production use

The first fully production-ready nonrelational, or NoSQL, database, called CouchDB, has been released, the corporate sponsor of the project, Couchio, ...

Article | 14/07/2010 Metastorm brings workflow modeling to the cloud

Enterprise software provider Metastorm has launched an online workflow modeling service, called Metastorm M3, the company announced on Tuesday.

Article | 14/07/2010 Windows Phone 7 can be remotely located, wiped

Lose your phone much? If so, you may want to consider one running Windows Phone 7 (WP7) for your next replacement.

Article | 13/07/2010 Muglia offers details on Microsoft Azure Appliance

On Monday, during the kickoff of Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference being held this week in Washington D.C., Microsoft <a href="http://www.netwo...

Article | 13/07/2010 Microsoft promises partners Windows tablets, phones

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised a sports arena filled with Microsoft partners that, within months, a number of Windows-based tablets would be hit...

Article | 8/07/2010 HP breaks in new TPC power usage benchmark

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has added a power efficiency metric, TPC-Energy, to its ongoing roundups of speedy transactional ...

Article | 7/07/2010 New Postgres to add the polish

With the impending release of version 9.0 of the open-source Postgres database, due in mid-August, the developers behind the project are hoping that t...

Article | 5/07/2010 Unix Active Directory software gets faster

Likewise Software has released a new version of its open-source authentication software for allowing Linux, Apple Macintosh and commercial Unix-based ...

Article | 2/07/2010 Dell gains virtualization muscle with Scalent buy

Dell is purchasing Scalent, a provider of server-virtualization management software, Dell announced on Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Article | 2/07/2010 IBM to commercialise genome reading

IBM has partnered with Roche, a manufacturer of medical devices, to build a low-cost device that can read human genomes, the company announced Thursda...

Article | 1/07/2010 Fedora gets new leader

The Fedora Project will be getting a new leader next month, as Jared Smith takes over the helm from current head Paul Frields, Frields announced Tuesd...

Article | 1/07/2010 Microsoft debuts data visualization tool

Microsoft has released a controller for its Silverlight multimedia software that can present dynamic visual summaries of large data sets in Web browse...