PC World-HP has long been a contributor to Linux and open-source software,but on Monday it ratcheted up its support another notch. Specifically,the company announced at the LinuxCon Europe event going on this week in Barcelona that it has ...
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Apple is growing increasingly confident that its own chip designs will be used to replace Intel processors in its Mac personal computers. Apple engineers, who began using Intel chips for Macs in 2005, believe that the ARM-based ...
Samsung's recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market,analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM's first 64-bit Cortex-A57 ...
Tags: Samsung, server chips, Cortex-A57 processors, Cortex-A53 processors
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices. The project has enabled RBS to determine running costs of its IT infrastructure, and provide ...
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Looking beyond PCs and tablets,Lenovo on Monday announced the first server from the newly formed Enterprise Product Group,which deals in servers,storage,networking and software. The ThinkServer TD330 is a tower server based on Intel's ...
Tags: Lenovo, software, networking, server
Mozilla introduced a pre-loaded list of domains for Firefox that only can be connected to securely in order to help protect the privacy and security of users. To force secure connections between the browser and a server,Mozilla uses ...
Tags: Firefox, Secure Connections, privacy and security, HSTS, browser
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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An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers,which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit,Imgur,AirBNB and ...
Tags: AWS, bug, Northern Virginia data centers, outage
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 ...
Tags: Oracle, Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, Exadata server
OPEL appoints VP of technology as consultant on POET technology OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which makes high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) panels and solar tracker systems through its subsidiary OPEL ...
Tags: OPEL POET, Lights, Lighting, Lee Shepherd, appoints
Walls Construction,an Irish construction services company,has saved upwards of€31,000 by moving stale content from a SQL Server to less expensive storage,using software from AvePoint–a SharePoint governance and infrastructure ...
Tags: SQL Server storage, AvePoint, infrastructure management
Storage area network(SAN)testing supplier Virtual Instruments plans to add monitoring capabilities for AIX and Hyper-V virtual server environments,IBM SVC and EMC VPLEX storage virtualisation products,Fibre Channel over Ethernet,NAS and ...
Tags: Virtual Instruments, SAN, IBM SVC, EMC VPLEX
The 2011 security breach at Dutch certificate authority(CA)DigiNotar resulted in an extensive compromise and was facilitated in part by shortcomings in the company's network segmentation and firewall configuration,according to Fox-IT,the ...
Tags: DigiNotar, Fox-IT, security breach, CA server
A U.S.judge should limit the scope of a proposed court hearing examining whether a former Megaupload user can recover files that were on the website when the U.S.Department of Justice shut it down,the agency said. The hearing should focus ...
Tags: DOJ, Megaupload, data stored, Goodwin
IDG News Service-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 ...
Tags: ARM, Cortex-A50, smartphones, tablets