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Intel drives up SSD storage capacity to 800GB

Intel on Thursday announced new solid-state drives with storage of up to 800GB, which is a new high in capacity for the company's SSD products.
Apache's Sqoop is top level project for transferring data with Hadoop

As more organisations deploy Hadoop to analyse vast reams of information, they may find they need to transfer large amounts of data between Hadoop and their existing databases, data warehouses and other data stores. Now the volunteer developers behind a new connector designed to speed this data exchange have gotten the full support from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
Microsoft positions database SQL Server 2012 for the Big Data market

Microsoft has released to manufacturing the newest version of its relational database, SQL Server 2012, the company announced Tuesday. The software will be available for customer purchase on 1 April.
Dell PowerEdge 12G server takes aim at new HP Proliant Gen8

Dell took shots at rival HP and made a further effort to reposition itself beyond its roots as a PC manufacturer with the release of its 12th generation blade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers along with native 10 Gigabit Ethernet support across its servers, storage and networking products.
Dell announces new server portfolio ahead of Xeon E5 launch

Dell has announced a new portfolio of PowerEdge servers based on Intel?s forthcoming Xeon E5 processor, as part of an ?end-to-end IT platform? that the company says will help customers manage data better and make faster business decisions.
Joomla 2.5 has search and database reinforcements

Joomla 2.5, the latest edition of the open source content management system, now comes with a new search engine, and can use Microsoft SQL Server or PostgreSQL, in addition to MySQL.
MySQL reaches new development milestone

Oracle is making the open-source MySQL database more stable and feature-rich through a shift in development philosophy, MySQL Vice President of Engineering Tomas Ulin said during a keynote address Monday at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
NetApp publishes reference architecture for Microsoft cloud

NetApp has published a reference architecture for using its storage equipment for internal Microsoft-based clouds.
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.
Pentaho releases olap4j API for java database access

The olap4j API can access multiple servers, including Mondrian OLAP, Pentaho BI Server and Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services.

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Microsoft releases service packs galore

In the past few weeks, Microsoft has released a slew of service packs for SQL Server 2008, as well as SP2 for its firewall, Forefront Threat Management Gateway. It also promised the third-and-final service pack for its Office 2007 wares.
Seven reasons to care about SQL Server 2008 R2

New BI and reporting features in SQL Server 2008 R2 hit the mark, but other additions leave SQL Server shops wanting more.
35 years of Microsoft

The year is 1975. Gerald Ford is in the White House, South Vietnam falls, Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila" world championship boxing match, the late-night comedy show NBC's Saturday Night (later called Saturday Night Live) debuts, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest sweeps the Oscars, and Captain & Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together" and Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" top the music charts.
Eight things you should know about Windows Phone 7

Details of Windows Phone 7 and the development environment are coming to light at Microsoft's MIX10 web developer conference.
Oracle ignores data migration worries claims rival

EntepriseDB takes the opportunity provided by the recent release of 11G to have a dig at Oracle's data migration, its licensing costs, and its green claims about 11G.
FalconStor rules the virtual tape market

FalconStor has gained EMC's Symmetrix-based virtual tape library (VTL) as the biggest VTL available in single system form.
The reason you won't install flash storage this year

There's nothing better to accelerate applications than solid state disks, but they come at a price.
VoIP may be vulnerable to barrage of threats, part 1

Understanding the extra risks, protocols and dependencies it brings is vital to implementing a new network application such as VoIP.
Security predictions for 2004

SQL Slammer, Blaster ? 2003 wasn?t the happiest of years for network administrators. What are the trends for 2004?

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