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Article | 13/05/2009 SharePoint 2010 will require 64-bit SQL Server

SharePoint 2010 will require a 64-bit version of SQL Server and it will not support Internet Explorer 6, according to Microsoft.

Article | 12/05/2009 Microsoft outlines five ways Exchange 2010 will be faster, more scalable

Microsoft Corp. said Monday that its upcoming Exchange Server 2010 software will be able to read and write e-mails to disk 70% faster than Exchange 20...

Article | 12/05/2009 Rackable Systems becomes SGI, closes deal

Rackable Systems has completed its acquisition of Silicon Graphics and will change the name of the combined company to SGI, Rackable announced Monday....

Article | 11/05/2009 Sun shareholders file suit to block sale to Oracle

Sun Microsystems shareholders filed three separate lawsuits last month in an effort to halt the company's pending sale to Oracle, according to a filin...

Article | 7/05/2009 Analyst: 'Pizza box' servers doomed in virtualized data centers

Virtualization may spell doom for the 1U "pizza box" server, as the ability to pack multiple virtual machines onto physical hosts has customers choosi...

Article | 6/05/2009 Microsoft: Windows 7 is faster on SSDs, with two caveats

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday gave a strong, though qualified, endorsement for running Windows 7 on PCs equipped with solid-state disk (SSD) drives, sayi...

Article | 6/05/2009 China's chips to power blade servers this year

Blade servers based on microprocessors designed in China will power a supercomputer prototype to be revealed by a government-backed Chinese firm in Se...

Article | 5/05/2009 Jive intros simpler SaaS version of collaboration suite

Jive Software launched on Monday a SaaS version of its enterprise collaboration suite designed to be easier and faster for organizations to set up.

Article | 30/04/2009 Verizon expands cloud backup service to global market

Verizon Communications Inc.'s business division Wednesday announced the global launch of its Verizon Remote Backup and Restore program, an expanded su...

Article | 1/05/2009 Via may seek greater role for Nano in servers

Via Technologies may try to extend the use of its Nano processors from netbooks to servers in a potential challenge to Intel and Advanced Micro Device...

Article | 1/05/2009 Microsoft takes aim at IBM in Web campaign

Microsoft will take aim at IBM Thursday in a Web campaign touting Windows Server on Intel-based hardware as a better, more economical performer than I...

Article | 29/04/2009 Blu-ray Disc faces local competitor, piracy in China

China could gradually become a big market for Blu-ray Disc, but for now the optical disc format faces the problems of thrifty buyers, piracy and a com...

Article | 1/05/2009 Microsoft runs cannibalization risk with low-end server push

Microsoft runs the risk of cannibalizing some server sales with the release of Windows Server 2008 Foundation Edition, a low-end version of the server...

Article | 29/04/2009 Linux out, Windows in at Electoral Commission

The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) will leave Linux for Windows Server when it develops its new vote counting and reporting application, which is sl...

Article | 30/04/2009 Clearpace turns storage system into virtual appliance

U.K. archiving software vendor Clearpace is launching a virtual appliance version of its data compression product NParchive, it said on Wednesday.

Article | 30/04/2009 Amazon to offer free cloud services to academics

Amazon is inviting students, educators and researchers to apply for grants that will give them free access to the company's hosted computing services.

Article | 29/04/2009 Microsoft targets Windows, Linux management

Microsoft Tuesday opened its annual management confab saying it would ship the next version of Operations Manager by the end of June and laying out it...

Article | 29/04/2009 Hitachi enters server, network monitoring business

Hitachi Data Systems Tuesday announced the release of three new software products to provide enhanced monitoring of business applications, virtualized...

Article | 29/04/2009 Sun's revenue drops 20 percent ahead of Oracle buy

Sun Microsystems reported a sharp drop in revenue for its third fiscal quarter, as the company battled uncertainty about its future along with the glo...

Article | 29/04/2009 AMD pulls dual-core server processors, cuts prices

Advanced Micro Devices has pulled dual-core server processors from its product lineup, also cutting prices of some Opteron chips by close to 43 percen...