Linux developers were once just that, developers. But their role is changing says the Linux Foundation, which is expanding its training options to help them. The foundation, an industry supported non-profit, has added two courses to its ...
Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu -- the main suppliers of ...
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The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), the organization that develops and maintains the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software, has patched a publicly disclosed vulnerability that can be used to remotely crash DNS servers ...
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Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle’s effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users. The ...
The decline in PC spending has hit Dell hard, but the company’s server business is growing, said IDC in its first quarter report on the worldwide server market. Dell’s share of worldwide server revenue reached 18.5 percent ...
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Server sales fell by five per cent in the first quarter of 2013, with IBM, HP, Fujitsu and, especially, Oracle hard hit. Only Dell among the top five server makers increased sales and market share. Market leader IBM claimed a 25.5 per ...
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Adobe has warned users of its ColdFusion application server platform of a critical vulnerability that could give unauthorized users access to sensitive files stored on their servers. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2013-3336 and ...
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Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such as IBM's PureSystems and iDataPlex servers, an industry analyst said Thursday. IBM ...
Online payment service provider WorldPay has reduced the time it takes to perform analysis and management of firewalls from minutes to just 20 seconds, thanks to the tools provided by operational intelligence firm Splunk. That's what ...
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Oracle's Unveiling of a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors late last month marked what could be the start of an expected shift toward standardizing the vendor's two families of Unix servers on a single chip architecture. ...
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HP demonstrated that innovation is well and truly alive as it announced the official release of its new revolutionary class of server, Moonshot, to an exclusive selection of press and analysts in London today. The second-generation server ...
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Oracle has extended its data center fabric to its Sparc-based Unix platforms, promising to let enterprises tie more servers and applications into the high-speed infrastructure. The fabric technology, which Oracle acquired in its purchase ...
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A flaw in the widely used BIND DNS (Domain Name System) software can be exploited by remote attackers to crash DNS servers and affect the operation of other programs running on the same machines. The flaw stems from the way regular ...
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As Dell works with three possible investment suitors to take itself private, it has consolidated itself internally while also planning to build a bridge across its storage platforms. Over the past three months, Dell has consolidated its ...
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As Dell works with three possible investment suitors to take itself private, it has consolidated itself internally while also planning to build a bridge across its storage platforms. Over the past three months, Dell has consolidated its ...
Tags: Dell, Unified Software, Fluid Cache