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Article | 23/04/2011 Thanks, Amazon: The Cloud crash reveals your importance

The outage of Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service has shone a light on the number of Websites that use the service, which allows companies to...

Article | 15/04/2011 Turn Amazon Cloud drive into desktop-accessible storage

As you may recall, Amazon recently unveiled its new Cloud Drive service, which provides 5GB of free online storage. (Elsewhere I explained how you cou...

Article | 14/04/2011 Google defends Apps for Government

Google went on the defensive on Wednesday, saying it never misled the U.S. government about Google Apps' compliance with an important security standar...

Article | 13/04/2011 Intel to open up Thunderbolt development this quarter

Intel on Tuesday said that developer kits for Thunderbolt will be available this quarter, which could lead to the quick availability of a wider range ...

Article | 13/04/2011 IBM refreshes Power systems to keep Unix sales edge

IBM has updated its Power systems lineup with higher-density blades and faster processors for its mid-range Power 750 server, looking to keep its mome...

Article | 13/04/2011 Lenovo announces service for cloud-aware clients

Lenovo on Tuesday announced a hosted applications service that can detect the hardware capabilities of an end user's laptop and tailor the service acc...

Article | 13/04/2011 Google denies lying about Apps' certification

Google on Monday denied an allegation by rival Microsoft that it lied about an important government certification.

Article | 13/04/2011 Facebook shares green data center designs but keeps x86

Facebook is a wonder of our age. With more than half a billion users, the fact it serves detailed and personalized pages to every user--within a secon...

Article | 13/04/2011 IBM's Watson not as smart as you think

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- As smart as IBM's Watson supercomputer may have seemed while defeating two former Jeopardy champions , it wouldn't be able to hold...

Article | 9/04/2011 Dell to spend $1B on cloud services this year

As the market for cloud services grows, the big enterprise IT vendors are moving swiftly to develop cloud offerings that cater to their respective mar...

Article | 8/04/2011 IBM to launch Websphere 8 in June

IBM plans to release the next version of its flagship Java application server, Websphere 8, on June 17, according to documents posted to IBM's website...

Article | 8/04/2011 Facebook shares its data center secrets

Facebook is sharing some of the secrets that help make its Prineville, Oregon, data center one of the world's most efficient.

Article | 8/04/2011 VMware to ship virtualization clients for Android, Mac OS X

VMware will ship a desktop virtualization client for Android Honeycomb-based tablets at the end of the second quarter or beginning of the third quarte...

Article | 8/04/2011 VMware readies desktop virtualization blueprint

In an effort to boost the popularity of desktop virtualization, VMware is working on improvements related to scalability and WAN performance and is pr...

Article | 7/04/2011 Dell to invest $1 billion to boost data storage products

Dell plans to invest US$1 billion over the next three years to bolster its data storage products to business customers, with the money going toward th...

Article | 7/04/2011 10,000-core Linux supercomputer built in Amazon cloud

High-performance computing expert Jason Stowe recently asked two of his engineers a simple question: Can you build a 10,000-core cluster in the cloud?

Article | 7/04/2011 Happy 20th birthday, Linux: The celebrations begin

The Linux Foundation on Wednesday kicked off what will be several months of celebrations in honor of the 20th anniversary of the Linux operating syste...

Article | 7/04/2011 Linux development to get high availability push

The Linux Foundation has formed a new working group to speed development within the Linux ecosystem that would make the operating system kernel more s...

Article | 6/04/2011 Seagate shows world's thinnest portable drive

Storage giant Seagate has announced that it will put on sale what it claims is the world slimmest ever portable hard drive, and for once the hyperbole...

Article | 5/04/2011 Intel, Micron to double SSD density by summer

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. - Intel and Micron plan to further shrink NAND circuitry, doubling the density of their flash chips and further reducing the cost ...