Systems giant IBM is to open its wallet and write out another $1bn cheque to support the development of open source operating system Linux in an era of cloud computing and big data. The investment was announced at LinuxCon North America ...
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Dr Phillip Hallam-Baker, a vice president and principal scientist in charge of web security software development at security software vendor Comodo, has published a paper calling for a more robust internet architecture that can combat web ...
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Michael Dell has won the battle to take the company he founded in 1984 private after shareholders voted in favour of the deal on the table from Michael Dell and private equity company Silver Lake. It means that the company will be taken ...
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IBM is working to develop microservers based on low-power processors but isn’t sure yet when the systems will be introduced. The company has already built a prototype board that could function as microserver but has yet to determine ...
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When Cancer Research UK picked VMware to virtualise its infrastructure, the organisation's head of infrastructure, Mick Briggs, believed that "there wasn't really much other choice". Further reading Customer perspective: Jaguar Land Rover ...
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Level 3 Communications, Inc. announced that it has signed an agreement with Lacoste's affiliate; Devanlay Ventures do Brasil Ltd, which manufactures and sells Lacoste products, such as clothing and accessories, in Brazil. Through the ...
Microsoft’s Xbox One will become available on Nov. 22 and the company has made the game console faster by cranking up the clock speeds of the CPU and graphics processor. The console is priced at US$499 and will be available in the ...
An optical interconnect introduced by Intel on Wednesday may someday slim down cabling throughout data centers if the company can get enough vendors to mass-produce it. The interconnect, which Intel is calling MXC, is designed to offer ...
A majority of U.S. Internet users polled in a recent survey report taking steps to remove or mask their digital footprints online, according to a report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project and Carnegie Mellon University. ...
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Advanced Micro Devices will start shipping its first ARM server chips to manufacturers for testing in the first quarter of 2014, a company executive said on Tuesday. "When our ARM chips start sampling, [the servers] will be [among] the ...
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In addition to Hewlett-Packard (HP) and IBM, Dell recently launched its latest micro-server, the PowerEdge T20, targeting small enterprises and personal studios. Since these types of businesses are more popular in the Asia Pacific region, ...
Mobile data services, external controller-based storage systems, business IT services and enterprise application software will all contribute to healthy growth in information technology (IT) in China, according to a new report from Gartner. ...
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The Indian government is expected to require that Indian bureaucrats use email service provided by the National Informatics Center for their official work, as it tries to secure its communications infrastructure. The requirement will be ...
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Leading global network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is proved to have been badly affected by the disclosure of PRISM of the US in the Chinese mainland. China Telecom Corp. Ltd. (NYSE: CHA and SEHK: 0728), the biggest ...
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A U.S. federal court has found file-hosting website Hotfile liable for copyright infringement, according to movie industry body Motion Picture Association of America. The US District Court for the Southern District of Florida also held ...
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