There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a ...
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Oracle has rolled out version X3-2 of its Database Appliance for small and medium-sized businesses that it says delivers up to twice the speed and more than four times as much storage as the first edition, which was launched in 2011. In ...
IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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VMware's Horizon Mirage 4.0 allows IT departments to be more flexible when they put together centrally managed desktop images using separated application packages. VMware lives and breathes desktop virtualization, but enterprises still ...
After 12 successive quarters of double-digit growth at SAP, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe is now pinning his future hopes on the company's recently acquired Ariba e-commerce network. Recent growth has been fueled by SAP's HANA in-memory ...
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EMC today released its first, purpose-built, all-solid state drive (SSD) array that is based on its XtremIO acquisition last year, as well as new software that identifies server flash throughout a data center and allows it to be managed ...
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The European Union has fined Microsoft 561 million euros ($712m) for breaking a pledge to offer personal computer users a choice of internet browsers when they install the company's flagship Windows operating system. The penalty imposed ...
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Web-based e-mail—webmail—is e-mail, such as Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo, that's implemented as a Web app and accessed through a browser. These services are usually free, and it's a rare computer user who doesn't have at least one ...
HP today announced new innovations aiming to strengthen its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio. At its yearly Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas, the tech giant unveiled a new HP BladeSystem, HP Converged Storage and HP Networking ...
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The attacks discovered last week that exploited a previously unknown Java vulnerability were likely launched by the same attackers that previously targeted security firm Bit9 and its customers, according to researchers from antivirus vendor ...
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Crackle, Sony Pictures Television's multi-platform entertainment network, announced today that, together with innovative video advertising technology platform Innovid, they are launching cRoll. cRoll is the first interactive video ad unit ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering users a monthlong free trial of a set of system analysis tools that the company is developing. The free offer is one of a number of price cuts and expanded services the company has introduced in the ...
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Under pressure from federal regulators to implement electronic health systems, healthcare providers are struggling to find and keep a technology staff in what is the fastest growing IT sector in the U.S. A Healthcare Information and ...
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Hewlett-Packard's effort to build ARM servers will get a boost from Texas Instruments, which will provide chips based on the latest ARM processor design. The TI chips will be offered as part of Project Moonshot, which is HP's effort to ...
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Software AG said on Monday that the new Version 9.0 of its webMethods server suite will bring in-memory capabilities to the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The announcement was made ahead of the CeBit trade show, at an international press ...