The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
Tags: Joyent Cloud, commodity cloud provider, SmartOS, virtualization tool
Indonesia’s largest-glass producer Asahimas Flat Glass, a subsidiary of Japan-based Asahi Glass, could increase its capital expenditure by 20 percent next year in anticipation of an increased demand for glass. Rusli Pranadi, ...
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Cyber criminals targeted users of Skype,Facebook and Windows using multiple Blackhole exploits in October,according to the latest threat report from security firm GFI Software. Researchers uncovered a large number of Blackhole exploits ...
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At a time when cyberattacks on America's critical infrastructure have increased 17-fold(between 2009 and 2011),the need for highly trained cybersecurity professionals is acute.However,83%of federal hiring managers in a recent survey said it ...
IDG News Service-Oracle has taken a minority stake in Engine Yard,maker of a PaaS(platform as a service)for Ruby,PHP and Node.js applications,the company announced Tuesday.Financial terms were not disclosed. Oracle and Engine Yard"are ...
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IDG News Service - There's been a lot of talk from about 64-bit ARM servers, but without software the fledgling platform won't get very far. Several big vendors made announcements this week that show software support is on its way. Red ...
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Oracle has launched a new Infrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS)offering,a new private cloud product,an updated database and a new iteration of its Exadata server at Oracle World in San Francisco today. Further reading Case Study:Twitter's ...
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Unlicensed copies of popular software Keep up to date Patch applications with security updates Conficker still a threat Malicious key generation(keygen)software is one of the fastest-growing types of a malware,according to the latest ...
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The new version of the Splunk machine data search engine comes with a distributed indexing technology that could save storage costs for those customers running the software as a high-availability service. "The data that is being collected ...
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Google's Android mobile operating system(OS)is under siege by attackers,with malware and information stealing adware targeting the platform up 483%in the last quarter. While Apple's relatively rigorous approach to vetting apps before ...
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Dries Buytaert started open source content management system Drupal as a part-time hobby in Belgium while he was completing his PhD in 2000. He founded Acquia in 2007 to make a profit from Drupal products. "For the first seven years, ...
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Apple yesterday started scrubbing most Macs of older Java browser plug-ins,a move that will force users to download the software from Oracle.The company also patched Java for OS X,the second time Apple synchronized its Java security update ...
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Network World-There has been much debate about the preferred wireless platform for application developers.Every platform has its own advantages and challenges,and there are key points developers need to keep in mind when choosing the most ...
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French Connection has cut costs by deploying a stock replenishment automation system. The clothing company signed a deal with IT company Redwood to deploy its Cronacle process automation software. Previously French Connection had two ...
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Batik now comes with colorful and cutting-edge designs,perfect for all.Its past stigmas-formal attire for the older generation,boring motifs and colors-have disappeared into thin air. Batik Danar Hadi from the Central Java town of ...
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