Further emphasizing Larry Ellison's fresh enthusiasm for cloud computing, Oracle has updated its Solaris Unix operating system with a number of new capabilities to give it greater cloud capabilities, including a new distributed storage file ...
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It's obvious that cloud computing imposes vast change within IT organizations. I've written repeatedly on this topic, addressing issues such as cost allocation, job opportunities, automation requirements, security and the relationship ...
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IDG News Service - This year at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin vendors introduced and demonstrated a plethora of ultra-high resolution TVs, hybrid tablets based on Microsoft's upcoming operating systems, as well as the first ...
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Microsoft may have known about last week's Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day bug for some time, according to its security advisory. The vulnerability, which was patched Friday in an emergency, or "out-of-band," update, first became public ...
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When Ken Stephens, a senior vice president of Xerox Cloud Services, tried to hire a product manager from IBM recently, he had quite a shock. "I offered him a 40 percent raise," Stevens said in an interview. "But then IBM came back and gave ...
Hewlett-Packard said Wednesday that it would take an $8 billion charge in its third fiscal quarter owing to weakness in its enterprise services division. The writedown is technically for "the impairment of goodwill" associated with HP's ...
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While several of the largest storage vendors, such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard and NetApp, have entered into agreements with server, software and networking vendors to offer bundled products, purpose-built products are just beginning to emerge. ...
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Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has again affirmed the company's commitment to its embattled Autonomy software division, saying that HP's fiscal health is stronger than some may believe. "There's been a lot of challenges, but a lot of ...
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A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a new data storage survey by market research firm TheInfoPro. Fifty-six percent of respondents indicated they will ...
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Dell and VMware announced a partnership this week through which the two companies will sell a bundled system with server, network and storage components in support of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Dell's new vStart for VDI is ...
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Software-defined networking won't turn enterprise switches into an inexpensive commodity until three to five years from now, according to Arpit Joshipura, the former Force10 Networks executive who now manages Dell's networking products. ...
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Apple's personal computers remained fixed in fourth place during 2012's second quarter, a spot it's occupied most of the year, a technical support franchise said today. The cause, ironically, was the very success that Apple has had ...
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The U.S. is once again home to the world's most powerful supercomputer, rebounding after it was knocked out of the top spot by China two years ago and Japan last year. The latest Top500 list of supercomputers, released last month, also ...
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New Mac owners took their frustration with Apple onto Twitter today as they groused that they have not received redemption codes for the free copy of OS X Mountain Lion they were promised. "36 hours later still no redemption code for ...
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Tech stocks have been climbing recently as key vendors such as Cisco and Lenovo report positive quarterly earnings and the U.S. economy offers glimpses of good news. So far this year, shares in IT companies rose steadily until April and ...
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