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Article | 17/06/2013 China trounces US in TOP500 supercomputer race
The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the ...
Article | 14/06/2013 IBM remolds DB2 10.5 as a Hadoop killer
In the new update of DB2, released Friday, IBM has added a set of acceleration technologies, collectively code-named BLU, that promise to make the ven...
Article | 12/06/2013 HP launches Cloud OS for Moonshot and other HP systems
On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an operating system (OS) designed specifically for ...
Article | 7/06/2013 Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks hang on to gains despite mixed reports
Buffeted by concerns about the economy and IT spending, tech stocks have gone on a roller coaster ride lately, but on the whole they've managed to han...
Article | 7/06/2013 External server disk storage sales drop for first time since 2009, says IDC
Global sales of external server storage have dropped for the first time since 2009, according to data from research firm IDC.
Article | 6/06/2013 Gartner: BI software market growth rate slowed in 2012
The BI (business intelligence) software market cooled off a bit in 2012 after "a few historic banner years" of spending growth, due to difficult econo...
Article | 4/06/2013 To-do software goes from ugly duckling to white swan
Long considered old-school tools with no place in shiny corporate social collaboration suites, to-do software is making a comeback with a new air of c...
Article | 4/06/2013 IBM buys SoftLayer as part of public cloud push
IBM has signed an agreement to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, as it looks to accelerate the build-out of its public cloud infrastructure. The company...
Article | 31/05/2013 Wall Street Beat: Tech stocks up despite dire PC, server outlook
Despite dismal forecasts for PCs and servers, tech stocks have been doing well on optimism about cloud technology and mobile devices.
Article | 30/05/2013 IDC: Server market revenue down 7.7 per cent in Q1
Server revenue worldwide was down 7.7 per cent year-over-year in the first quarter, as weak economic conditions and server consolidation by customers ...
Article | 28/05/2013 Dell and Cisco grow despite tough server market in Q1
As overall server market revenue and shipments declined in the first quarter, both Dell and Cisco Systems managed growth while enterprise stalwarts He...
Article | 23/05/2013 IBM preps SmartCloud for real-time analytics
Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis.
Article | 21/05/2013 IBM launches Watson customer service smart bot
Yoking cognitive computing with customer service, IBM has launched a system that can reference large amounts of unstructured data to help companies be...
Article | 6/05/2013 BMC set to go private in $US6.9 billion deal
BMC has agreed to be acquired by a private investment consortium headed by Bain Capital and Golden Capital, in a deal worth about $US6.9 billion.
Article | 3/05/2013 H-1B reform debate pits tech firms against veteran IT workers
Many U.S. tech companies are pushing hard this year for an increase in the number of high-skill immigrants allowed into the country, but many veteran ...