As part of its strategic partnership with VMware, Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, has collaborated with VMware, to develop the first fully operational prototype of a VMware Cloud Foundation-based ...
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Next year will see demonstrable evidence of the Internet of Things, real-time communications on the Web, and SDN-enabled platforms with killer applications for them, says Cisco. The first is the Internet of Things, a market that includes ...
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Market Track, LLC, the leading provider of retail promotion and pricing intelligence solutions in North America, announced that it has agreed to acquire Dynamite Data, LLC. Market Track will retain Dynamite Data’s key leadership team, ...
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The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (RBWM) is set to abandon issuing staff with BlackBerry smartphones as the council looks to move towards a Windows 8-based ecosystem. It forms part of RBWM's overall strategy of moving towards a ...
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Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in deploying new applications, predicted Martin ...
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Oracle is looking to delay until next year the planned release of Java 8, citing a renewed focus on security, Oracle's Mark Reinhold, chief architect of the Java platform group, said in a blog post on Thursday. Java Development Kit 8, ...
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The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
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The low-power capabilities of ARM-based processors have created high expectations for their use in servers, but one of Dell's top engineers said they are unlikely to take off until 64-bit versions hit the market. "I don't think you'll see ...
Tags: 64-Bit, Computer Products, ARM
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented scale that targeted an international spam-fighting organization last week ended up causing problems for Internet users around the world, experts say. The DDoS attack started ...
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Three UK, the mobile phone network, is using "big data" at the heart of its business to work out where to locate mobile phone masts and to help personalise the "experience" of its subscribers. Speaking at Computing's Big Data Summit in ...
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Symantec on Wednesday began offering multi-algorithm SSL certificates for Web servers that go beyond traditional crypto to include what’s known as the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA). The firm ...
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The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) intends to create a standard method to evaluate the energy efficiency of ultra-low power(ULP) microcontrollers. To date, the industry has lacked a common method to test, validate, ...
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US law enforcement has announced charges against three alleged East European cyber thieves accused of stealing banking information from computers across Europe and the US, including at the space agency NASA. The "alleged international ...
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IDG News Service - Starting with Java 8, to be released in September, the development team behind the widely used programming language plans to release a new version of Java every two years -- and stick to that schedule. The idea is to ...
IDG News Service-Emerging chip technologies that Arm Holdings announced on Wednesday could help to power mobile networks that are being asked to handle more traffic with more fine-tuned controls. The provider of the dominant architecture ...