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HP launches second beta of IaaS cloud tools

HP launched a second beta of the cloud computing services it plans to offer commercially as the company prepares to enter the market for IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service).
Dell announces PowerEdge C5220 server with Intel Ivy Bridge chips

Dell has announced a new microserver, the PowerEdge C5220, with Intel's first Xeon server processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture, which has not been officially announced by the chip maker yet.
Rackspace switches over to OpenStack

In what will be one of the first large scale OpenStack commercial deployments, hosting company Rackspace is moving its server and other hosting services to the OpenStack API (application programming interface).
Oracle to issue 88 security patches next week

Oracle is planning to release 88 patches on Tuesday, covering vulnerabilities affecting a wide array of its products, according to a pre-release announcement posted to its website on Thursday.
Oracle previews MySQL 5.6 for database administrators

Oracle has posted a preview version of MySQL 5.6 relational database management system to offer a database administrators a glimpse of the new features they will be working with.
Twitter unveils MySQL scalability tweaks

Twitter has released some of the tweaks it has made to MySQL, potentially bringing greater scalability to the open-source relational database management system.
Big Data unified stack not coming any time soon

Despite the growing interest in Big Data platforms, it may be some time before organisations will be able to deploy a standardised Big Data software stack, concluded a panel of speakers during a virtual panel hosted by GigaOm.
Amazon Web Services slashes prices as competition mounts

Amazon Web Services has cut its prices for the 19th time in six years in a bid to fend off competition from the likes of Microsoft Azure and Rackspace.
Microsoft wooing startups to its platforms with free software, business advice

Jun Kim, the young co-founder of a Korean software house, was recently approached by a representative from Amazon, who offered him a US$200 credit to develop on its Web Services cloud platform.
AMD buys SeaMicro and enters server hardware business

AMD announced yesterday it is buying low-power server vendor SeaMicro, a move that puts AMD in the systems business and disrupts Intel by acquiring one of its close partners.

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TiVo found a way to create a more agile provisioning method and offer developers cloned databases with which they could test code without worrying about blowing up their joint test environment.
IT admins commandeer network resources to run game servers

Back in January, Scandinavian gamers hijacked a New Hampshire medical center's server to host "Call of Duty: Black Ops" sessions. When asked about that incident, Stephen Heaslip of the gamer site Blues News told Network World that hackers are not the most likely individuals to commandeer corporate servers for illicit gaming: Such appropriations are more often the work of IT administrators, he said.
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Companies that communicate with customers via Facebook and Twitter must protect sensitive data, SugarCRM official notes at JasperSoft conference.
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"Free" is a term rarely associated with Microsoft offerings, especially at the server end of the spectrum. Exchange Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V, IT admins know functionality comes at a price. More surprising, however, is the wealth of server tools Microsoft offers for free, some of which can, in the right contexts, provide an adequate substitute for the paid versions of Microsoft's more intriguing server products.
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Having your primary tech vendor bought out can create lots of change in a hurry. Customers of acquired tech firms such as Foundry, EqualLogic and Sun share their concerns and advice.

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The MySQL server, the world?s most popular open source database, has been named a leader in the overall and embedded database management market by Forrester and other analyst groups. The reasons for this include the benefits that the open source paradigm brings to OEMs and ISVs, numerous technical advantages of the MySQL database, strong ease-of use, complete technical support, a dual-licensing model, and a very low total cost of ownership.
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