Longtime VMware Chief Technology Officer Steve Herrod has stepped down from his post, leaving the company during a challenging time. Herrod has taken a job at the venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he will work as a managing ...
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Facebook's Open Compute Project is being expanded to incorporate ARM processors, providing new options for companies shopping for low-cost hardware to build out cloud computing environments. Chip vendors from both the ARM and x86 sides of ...
Dell is trying to bring the ARM and x86 processors closer by supporting a new systems management technology, a step toward making both the CPU technologies interoperable, the company said on Wednesday. Dell will back the Open Compute ...
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Research in Motion announced Wednesday that credit card company Visa has approved RIM's Visa for use in mobile payments made with smartphones or tablets that use a Near Field Communication chip. The system, called Secure Element Manager ...
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UK charity Action for Children has chosen cloud provider Rackspace to tackle its big data challenges and scale up its IT infrastructure on demand. SAS launches academy to tackle demand for "52,000 a year" big data specialists Analysis: ...
Even after Oracle patched critical Java vulnerabilities on Monday, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) continued urging users to disable Java browser plug-ins. "Due to the number and severity of this and prior Java ...
ARM has had a boost from Facebook by being added to Facebook's Open Compute Project.This means that Facebook and other server customers will buy servers from companies which use both x86 processors and ARM processors. The Open Compute ...
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Samar Khalil, Network Management Department Director, IDM Blue Coat systems on Thursday announced that it had tied up with one of Lebanon’s biggest internet service providers, IDM, which will now optimise its web content delivery ...
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Startup NuoDB is hoping to position itself as having the ideal database for the post-cloud world, now that its Cloud Data Management System is generally available. NuoDB made the announcement on Tuesday during a webcast event. Some 3,500 ...
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The hundreds of ctargeted in a large-scale cyberespionage operation dubbed Red October were not only attacked using malicious Excel and Word documents as previously believed, but also by using Web-based Java exploits, according to ...
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With the release of the first service pack for Microsoft System Center 2012, Microsoft is taking another step in its ambitious goal of helping customers manage their on-premises IT and Microsoft Azure cloud services with a single set of IT ...
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VideoIQ adaptive analytics and edge storage provide accuracy, reliability and real-time HD video surveillance so you can monitor and protect your most important assets. These security solutions are specifically designed to address ...
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Unit shipments of PC microprocessors to rise 3.2%. Worldwide revenues for microprocessors designed for mobile PCs, desktop PCs, and PC servers are expected to increase by 1.6% to $40.7bn in 2013, according to a new forecast report from ...
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Following news that Dell was in negotiations for a private equity buyout, analysts said on Tuesday that multiple private equity firms would have to invest in Dell for a buyout to be possible. The analysts pointed toward the company’s ...
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The latest UK arena leg of the successful Mumford & Sons Tour of Two Halves world tour featured 2,547 of XL Video's latest FX-200 product, together with three Pixled F11 LED screens, HD cameras / PPU and crew. The versatile FX-200s were ...
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