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Toshiba NPEngine streams 64,000 video streams at 40GB a second

Toshiba has developed hardware for servers that encodes and sends video streams without using CPU or memory, greatly increasing the number of streams that can be broadcast from a single machine.
PostgreSQL gets cloud deployment options with Plus Cloud Server

Companies looking to move database operations to public and private clouds will soon have another option in the form of Postgres Plus Cloud Server, EnterpriseDB announced.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 marries disaster recovery and protection

Acronis has launched what it bills as the "first affordable" integrated disaster recovery and data protection platform.
Open source Postgres database update adds polish

The upcoming new release of the open source Postgres database focuses on user-friendliness.
EnterpriseDB offers alternative to Oracle MySQL

Oracle competitor offers unlimited use enterprise licensing for MySQL alternative PostGreSQL.
VMware updates Fusion Windows virtualisation

VMware, the maker of desktop and server virtualisation tools has announced VMware Fusion 3, a way to run Windows on the Mac.
Acronis frets over lack of testing of DR systems

Acronis has this week launched True Image Home 2010, the latest version of its consumer backup and recovery software. But the storage vendor is also concerned that some organisations may be getting complacent about their disaster recovery (DR) procedures by not testing them enough.
EnterpriseDB offers Postgres enhancements

EnterpriseDB has launched two new versions of its open-source database, Postgres. The company has introduced Postgres Plus and Postgres Plus Server.
EnterpriseDB to deliver online database

EnterpriseDB plans in March to start beta-testing an online version of its Oracle-compatible database that will utilise Amazon.com's Web-based computing and storage services.
Red Hat 4 gets a facelift

Red Hat has followed up its release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.1 two weeks ago with an update to its older RHEL 4 line of operating systems, including kernel updates and hardware tweaks.

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Streamlined Windows Server 8 offers key benefits

Windows Server has always been a bit different. It looks like your desktop computer, and includes dozens of features that you have no interest in using.
Soul of a new standard server

Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim is in charge of its new Galaxy server products. He talks about Galaxy's design, Sun's server strategy, CPU architectures, virtualisation, and the future of SPARC.
Windows Server 2003?secure at last?

It's been three long years but finally the next Windows server is out of the box...

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Technology Audit: EnterpriseDB Advanced Server

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Windows 2000 Cluster Service Architecture

This white paper focuses on the architecture and features of Cluster service and describes its terminology, concepts, design goals, key components, and planned future directions.
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Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture stole the limelight this year, summarily trouncing its predecessors, and the best that AMD had to offer, with considerable performance boosts and power savings. Today, Intel is announcing the Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition, an £800 CPU that distills the lessons the company has learned over the past year into a single piece of premium silicon. read more...

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