
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
JavaScript graduates to the server Microsoft and others have already adopted this technology to extend JavaScript beyond the browser -- but it has limits developers must beware
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
AMD move could mean ARM in future chips AMD's CTO said the company will employ other chip architectures if they meet the needs of its customers
Monday, February 06, 2012
EMC launches 'Project Lightning' PCIe 'Project Thunder' to follow in Q2 as an all-flash appliance
Monday, February 06, 2012
Clues about HP's Gen8 servers leaked Hewlett-Packard's Proliant Gen8 servers will be based on Intel's upcoming Xeon E5 chips, according to HP's website
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Medicine gets 'super power' IBM's Watson made a splash at Lotusphere 2012, promising medical advances. Find out what a Canadian pathologist thinks about having computers as colleagues
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Oracle handed setback in HP Itanium case Oracle had cited fraud by HP to defend its decision not to support Itanium in its software
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Ubuntu creator: be wary of cloud lock-in Canonical and Citrix highlight the pitfalls of proprietary cloud computing
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Prepping the network for VDI A vendor-written tech primer 
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The future of COBOL: Part 2 As COBOL developers retire, there might be shortage of new developers. And when COBOL is finally retired, what will replace it? Read more in Part 2 of this two-part series
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The future of COBOL: Why it won't go away soon More than 50 years after its debut, COBOL persists in the backend of many an enterprise. Find out why in Part 1 of a two-part series
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Oracle's Sparc SuperCluster due by year end The company released its Sparc T4 processor in standard rack and blade servers, as well as a big clustered system
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
EnterpriseDB unveils new server management tools The PostgreSQL-based database company increases the relevance of its database to Oracle shops with a platform for managing many servers
Monday, August 15, 2011
HP updates dependency mapping software The company said an update to its DDMA mapping tool will help data centres develop chargeback programs. The new feature is what HP calls a collector portal, a Web interface that lists the applications and dependencies the software has uncovered
Monday, August 08, 2011
CA adds new mainframe Linux management capabilities In addition to two new partnerships with Innovation Data Processing and Velocity Software, the new capabilities introduced are part of the CA VM:Manager Suite for Linux on System z and CA Solve Operations Automation product lines
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Desjardins’ insurance wing gets off its mainframes The Montreal-based insurer said faster customer transactions and recruitment efforts helped drive the project. Plus, the insurance company offers up a tip for organizations heading down a similar migration path
Monday, June 27, 2011
BBC tackles big data dilemma with smart IT structuring The BBC's Web site is among the 50 most-visited in the world, making it a challenge to serve traffic yet keep costs low
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Pictures tell a thousand words: watching Big Blue’s tech In celebration of IBM Corp.’s centennial year, here’s our compilation of videos that touch on the historical as well as forward-looking aspects of the technology space in which the Armonk, New York vendor has delved. Jeopardy, IBM DB2, mainframes, and girls in science
Monday, May 30, 2011
ARM servers still 'several years' away, its president says COMPUTEX 2011: ARM needs to build a whole server market ecosystem before ARM servers are a reality, its president said. Several companies are working on ARM-based processors for servers, including Nvidia, Marvell, and Calxeda
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Dirty IT jobs: Partners in slime Carcasses, garter belts, and anthrax -- techs get nasty in the name of IT. Get some tips on how to get through the muckiest tasks imaginable
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Hitachi Data Systems takes on IT lifecycle management The company that has traditionally sold blade servers and storage is now making a foray into a market in which its parent company, Hitachi, as had success in Japan. Why it was important to integrate major IT pain points in the offering
Monday, March 21, 2011
Firefox 4.0 makes early appearance While Firefox 4.0 won't officially be released until Tuesday, it is already on Mozilla public FTP servers. The Mozilla Foundation, however, is cautioning people not to download the new browser from its sites yet
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
CA and Unisys to address ‘virtual stall’ The two firms say the new package, available to North American customers, will combine CA virtualization management, service automation and service management products with Unisys cloud and data centre advisory services
Monday, March 07, 2011
Novell steps up to managing enterprise Linux servers The new software, SUSE Manager, is very much focused on Linux. While Red Hat Enterprise Linux is covered, SUSE Manager is best integrated with Novell’s own SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Monday, March 07, 2011
Itanium hits 10-year mark, less Windows Platform continues to move ahead, as Unix market slowly declines. The 64-bit Itanium chip was introduced 10 years ago as a challenger to the RISC systems that dominated enterprise shops at the time
Monday, February 28, 2011
SeaMicro's new server has latest Intel Atom N570 chip The SM10000-64 server packs 850GHz of processing power. Intel's low-power Atom processors are typically used in netbooks