Cisco?this week announced its intent to acquire?BroadHop,a developer of network management?servers and software for carriers. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.The acquisition is?Cisco's fourth in the past month. BroadHop's ...
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FalconStor Software today announced the latest version of RecoverTrac software, offering users fully automated recovery of IT services in any data center environment. FalconStor's RecoverTrac 2.5 software introduces new GUIs that reduce ...
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EMC has named former Huawei Technologies executive John Roese as chief technology officer. Roese, also a former Nortel Networks CTO, will play a key role in shaping EMC’s cloud and big data technology strategy, the company said. ...
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Marvell plans to begin selling PCIe adapter cards that will act as I/O accelerators or cache in order to boost the performance and resiliency of consumer-class solid-state drives (SSDs). Each of the cards allows for up to four SSDs to be ...
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NEC's new high-end server contains swappable battery packs,intended to provide backup power without the need for an external uninterruptible power supply(UPS)in data centers. The new rack-mounted server is part of NEC's ...
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IBM has started to roll out a new processor for its Power family of servers, a project that will start with higher-end systems and eventually reach the midrange and low-end boxes. The new Power7+ chip has a higher clock speed than its ...
IBM and Oracle revealed more details this week about new RISC chips they’re building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain ...
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In a move to expand its portfolio of information governance software,IBM is acquiring e-discovery software vendor StoredIQ. Founded in 2001,StoredIQ offers e-discovery systems that help organizations index,store,de-duplicate and delete ...
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EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centres and is developing software to tie all those components together. The company is using technology it gained through its acquisition of XtremIO earlier this year to build an ...
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Cyber criminals are using computers infected with a particular piece of malware to power a commercial proxy service that funnels potentially malicious traffic through them, according to security researchers from Symantec. Three months ...
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Details have emerged of an extraordinary attack in which millions of DSL broadband routers in Brazil were hit by a serious software flaw that allowed criminals to gain complete control of all web traffic running through them. First ...
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A Russian start-up company called Elbrus Technologies is developing a technology that will allow data centre owners to migrate software designed for x86 platforms to ARM-powered servers without the need to recompile it. Because of their ...
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Judy Klickstein is a cloud believer. As CIO of Cambridge Health Alliance, a midsized healthcare provider just outside of Boston, she's excited about the efficiencies cloud computing can bring to her organization. Outsourcing management of ...
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ARM on Tuesday introduced its first 64-bit Cortex-A50 series processor designs as the company tries to preserve its dominance in smartphones and tablets while catching up with Intel in servers. The new ARM processors, Cortex-A57 and ...
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In an effort to consolidate its positioning as a leader in the field of web traffic delivery, Singapore-based Innovalist and its subsidiary, getwebsitetraffic.org have acquired long-time industry rival Aetraffic.com, a move that puts the ...
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