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Article | 7/12/2011 Red Hat RHEL 6.2 boosts storage capabilities
Red Hat has updated its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with new technologies designed to cut the cost and improve performance of...
Article | 3/12/2011 Original PaaS vendors defend their turf
Independent platform-as-a-service providers acknowledge that theirs is a crowded market, especially with big IT vendors like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard a...
Article | 16/11/2011 Red Hat adds app lifecycle tools to PaaS preview
Red Hat has outfitted its OpenShift hosted application platform with a set of application development lifecycle tools to simplify deployment on the Pa...
Article | 23/10/2011 Widely used encryption standard is insecure, say experts
A weakness in XML Encryption can be exploited to decrypt sensitive information, researchers say.
Article | 5/10/2011 Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
Red Hat announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS systems into mass...
Article | 5/10/2011 Red Hat buys cloud storage vendor Gluster
Red Hat is acquiring privately owned storage vendor Gluster for approximately US$136 million in cash to boost its cloud offerings, it said on Tuesday.
Article | 24/09/2011 Wall Street Beat: Software earnings look good
The spectacle of Hewlett-Packard replacing CEO Leo Apotheker, who had been in the job just a year, with former eBay chief Meg Whitman this week all bu...
Article | 24/09/2011 Microsoft, Red Hat spar over secure boot-loading tech
Is Microsoft using a next-generation computing boot-loading technology to lock out the use of Linux and other OSEs on certain computers? While Microso...
Article | 22/09/2011 Will Windows 8 PCs shut the door on Linux?
It seems safe to say that a sizable proportion of Linux PC users in the world today installed the free and open source operating system on hardware th...
Article | 15/09/2011 Symantec cloud-based service seeks out 'rogue certificates'
Symantec this week introduced what it calls the Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center, a cloud-based service that works with an on-premises softwar...
Article | 10/09/2011 The virtualization path less traveled
To update an old IT saying about IBM and job security, few IT managers may get fired for choosing VMware to virtualize their infrastructure. VMware, a...
Article | 23/08/2011 First look: VMware vSphere 5 looms large
As we rapidly approach yet another VMworld conference and the general release of VMware vSphere 5, it's clear that VMware hasn't been resting on its l...
Article | 17/08/2011 Red Hat RHEV freed from Windows fetters
With the next release of its Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) package, Red Hat has finally rid itself of one of its most notorious dependencie...
Article | 16/08/2011 How Linux mastered Wall Street
When it comes to the fast-moving business of trading stocks, bonds and derivatives, the world's financial exchanges are finding an ally in Linux, at l...
Article | 10/08/2011 HotLink aims to ease managing mixed virtual environments
Startup HotLink has exited stealth mode and launched SuperVISOR for VMware, designed to allow IT departments to mix and match hypervisors from differe...