Service providers are launching new services for 2012, and are working to ramp up their support services. All-in-all, they look …
Tilera reveals new 36-core chip
Tilera today announced availability of its new 36-core processor, which the company says can trump traditional x86 server chips from …
Enterprise Hadoop
It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a …
Intel enters smartphone market
Intel on Tuesday announced its first smartphone customers, signaling the arrival of Intel Inside smartphones after years of uphill struggle …
Open regulation
As the regulatory body and registry operator for the .ae domain name, the .ae Domain Authority (.aeDA) naturally takes its …
NetApp targets midsize market
NetApp has announced an addition to its Fabric-Attached Storage (FAS) 2000 family of arrays, an entry-level model with up to …
Raytheon acquires cybersecurity vendor Pikewerks
Defence and aerospace systems vendor Raytheon has acquired cybersecurity vendor Pikewerks in an effort to add to Raytheon’s capabilities to …
HP to put Xeon chips in high-end Integrity servers
HP has updated the road map for its high-end Integrity servers to include systems that can accommodate both Xeon- and …
Dell PowerEdge servers get AMD’s new 16-core chips
Dell announced that it has upgraded its PowerEdge servers with the just-released 16-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). …
HP paying Intel to keep Itanium going: Oracle
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has secretly contracted with Intel to keep making Itanium processors so that HP can maintain the appearance that …
AMD’s 16-core Opteron chips arrive after wait
After a brief delay and more than a year of chatter, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) today announced the availability of …
Adobe promises to keep patching Flash on mobile, doesn’t say for how long
Adobe has promised to support the soon-to-be-orphaned Flash Player plug-in for mobile browsers, but has not said how long it …
ARM leads march to 64-bit tablets, smartphones: analysts
ARM’s new 64-bit ARMv8 architecture could be used in tablets and smartphones in a few years, which could help deliver …
VMware CEO Maritz warns customers to be prepared for licensing changes
VMware’s CEO, Paul Maritz, has warned that the pricing model for virtualisation will evolve “radically” as it heads towards a …
IBM announces preconfigured analytics servers
IBM yesterday introduced mainframe and Power-based systems for analytics in an effort to compete with Oracle’s Exadata. IBM’s Smart Analytics …
Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
Red Hat announced yesterday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS …
Path perfect
In the second part of the interview, Paul Maritz, CEO of VMWare explains the path ahead for the company across …
MySQL.com hacked to serve malware
The website for the open-source MySQL database was hacked and used to serve malware to visitors yesterday. Security vendor Armorize …
Red Hat to exhibit cloud capabilities at Cloud Confex 2011
Red Hat, a provider of open source solutions will be participating at this years GITEX Cloud Confex 2011, the company …
Microsoft, Red Hat spar over secure boot-loading tech
Is Microsoft using a next-generation computing boot-loading technology to lock out the use of Linux and other OSEs on certain …