Symantec has announced the latest version of its Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), which adds the ability to reduce virtual machine recovery times by using VMware's vMotion data migration capabilities. The new version of VCS, slated to be ...
Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent of the underlying hypervisor and hardware that will work in VMware ...
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Microsoft has said it is increasing its investment in China as it looks to take advantage of the growing market. The company will invest in new hires, more research for local requirements, and an expansion to additional cities and ...
Tags: China, Chinese market, Growing market, Investment increase, Microsoft
Redis, an open source in-memory data store maintained by VMware, has been upgraded to be more stabile and make more judicious use of memory, two traits that should make it more appealing for enterprise deployments. “Redis 2.6 is ...
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HP today announced it is expanding its Converged Cloud portfolio with joint HP and Microsoft solutions that aim to simplify and enhance every aspect of a client's private cloud journey. The HP and Microsoft Joint Private Cloud initiative ...
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Chip maker Calxeda has received an investment to the tune of US$55 million to develop low-power server chips with ARM processors, the company is expected to announce today. Calxeda makes a chip called EnergyCore with a low-power ARM ...
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Hosting giant Rackspace saw profits grow 55% to $48.3m (pound 31m) in the first six months of this year. Total revenue for the first half of the year was $620m, a 30% jump on the first half of 2011. “At the halfway point in the ...
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Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison, announced the Oracle Exadata X3 Database In-Memory Machine, the latest generation of its Oracle Database Machines, during his keynote address at Orcale OpenWorld 2012. “Forward-looking enterprises are ...
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A security researcher published on Friday another attack on Facebook’s Instagram photo-sharing service that could allow a hacker to seize control of a victim’s account. The attack was developed by Carlos Reventlov around a ...
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Hitachi is trying to expand beyond storage services to tackle emerging areas like big data and converged IT, according to Hitachi Data Systems CTO, Hu Yoshida. The change reflects a recent change in leadership in the larger company, ...
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Security researchers have presented proof-of-concept code capable of accessing the database driving a Microsoft ERP system and then diverting funds while avoiding immediate detection. Tom Eston and Brett Kimmel of vendor SecureState ...
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Salesforce.com subsidiary Heroku is launching a PaaS (platform-as-a-service) cloud option for Java developers that is intended to make it easier to deploy Web applications on the Heroku cloud platform. Developers will able to package ...
Anticipating greater usage of Ubuntu within the enterprise, Canonical has released a significant update to its Landscape Ubuntu system management tool. “We have really been cranking up the level of effort with Landscape over the ...
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Security researchers have presented proof-of-concept code capable of accessing the database driving a Microsoft ERP system and then diverting funds while avoiding immediate detection. Tom Eston and Brett Kimmel of vendor SecureState ...
HP has unveiled two new HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) four-socket servers that facilitate customers’ move to the cloud while delivering increased compute power in less space and a return on investment within three months. The ...
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