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Article | 6/04/2011 New servers feature Intel's 10-core Xeon E7 processors

Top manufacturers including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Cray have announced new high-end servers sporting Intel's 10-core Xeon E7 series of chips, ...

Article | 6/04/2011 Intel pushes savings with new 10-core server chips

Intel on Tuesday announced the Xeon E7 series of chips with 10 cores, which the company said could help cut power and maintenance costs in data center...

Article | 5/04/2011 IBM: Watson could boost confidence of financial industry

The software that helped IBM's Watson computer reign victorious on the Jeopardy game show in February could also help the financial industry assess ri...

Article | 5/04/2011 Oracle releases beta for Express Edition of 11g database

Oracle 11g Express Edition (XE), the free-of-charge version of Oracle's flagship database, is now in beta.

Article | 4/04/2011 IEEE hopes to drive cloud computing standards

Standards organization IEEE has decided to get involved in cloud computing, starting with two development projects related to cloud interoperability, ...

Article | 31/03/2011 Google's App Engine gets new search feature

The Python SDK (Software Development Kit) for Google's cloud platform App Engine has a new search feature that can be used to build notification, moni...

Article | 31/03/2011 Hadoop Hive gets production polish

Edging ever closer to enterprise software maturity, the Hive data warehouse software has been updated with new capabilities considered essential for p...

Article | 30/03/2011 Oracle rumors swirl as Lawson users wait and wonder

Lawson Software customers still don't know the fate of the company following Infor's roughly US$1.8 billion acquisition offer earlier this month, with...

Article | 30/03/2011 Startup looks to poach Oracle customers after Itanium move

Oracle's announcement last week that it will stop developing software for Intel's Itanium processor has database startup EnterpriseDB looking to capit...

Article | 29/03/2011 Dedicated hardware now available in Amazon's cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can now run their cloud applications on hardware dedicated to them, the company said on Monday.

Article | 25/03/2011 Kingston launches Class 10 microSDHC cards

Kingston today announced it has started shipping 4GB and 8GB Class 10 microSDHC cards, offering a minimum sustained write rate of 10 megabytes per sec...

Article | 25/03/2011 Server virtualization: Six management myths

During the past three to five years, when most companies began rolling out virtual servers in earnest as replacements for physical servers, acceptance...

Article | 25/03/2011 Dell's Compellent unit to add dedupe, global file system

Storage products from Dell's Compellent unit will integrate technologies from Dell's earlier acquisitions to better enable these products to target la...

Article | 23/03/2011 Nine features of upcoming BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0.3

BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) is expected to release a major update to its BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) for Microsoft Exchange and I...

Article | 22/03/2011 Dell's PowerEdge microservers take shape

Dell on Tuesday is set to announce low-power PowerEdge servers that can quickly band together to execute transactions more efficiently than traditiona...

Article | 22/03/2011 Strong-arm tactics alleged in Oracle, reseller dispute

Oracle explicitly said that it planned to sell products directly to its largest accounts after it acquired Sun Microsystems last year. But reseller In...

Article | 19/03/2011 BlackBerry Office 365 is win-win for IT admins

Research in Motion (RIM) officially announced plans for a free cloud-based BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) for customers using Microsoft's Office 3...

Article | 21/03/2011 TestDisk, PhotoRec fix disks, recover files

If you're a fan of character-based interfaces -- such as DOS -- and free data recovery, you're going to love TestDisk and its companion utility, Photo...

Article | 18/03/2011 VMware's management client for iPad available

VMware has released the vSphere Client for iPad, with which IT staff will be able to monitor and manage their virtualized infrastructure, the company ...

Article | 18/03/2011 Security will rescue cloud computing

Whenever the topic of security is mentioned in the context of cloud computing, it is usually discussed as the "big barrier" to adoption. The perceived...