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Microsoft 'committed' to Hyper-V OpenStack support
Microsoft may try to revive support for Hyper-V in OpenStack as the community considers removing the code -- which one OpenStack developer called broken and unmaintained -- from the stack.
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ISC looking for programmers to help complete BIND 10
"The goal is to move away from having BIND a heavily sponsored corporate product," said Shane Kerr, ISC's BIND 10 engineering manager. "ISC will always maintain ownership of the code, but we would like there to be more of a community around it."
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Oracle adds cloud support to WebLogic application server
For the new release of its WebLogic, Oracle has tailored the enterprise Java application server so that it can be used more easily in cloud deployments.
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HP announces B6200 StoreOnce Backup System deduplication appliance
HP have announced its first enterprise-class deduplication appliance - the B6200 StoreOnce Backup System - that is capable of storing up to 768TB in a single chassis.
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Barcelona builds supercomputer using Nvidia chips and ARM processors
With an eye to bringing power efficiency to high-performance systems, a prototype supercomputer with quad-core ARM processors is being built at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Spain.
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Vidyo virtualises video-call technology to save costs round the world
Like other applications that once required dedicated hardware platforms, videoconferencing is moving into the cloud.
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AOL kills off LISTSERV mailing list service
Ending a service it has offered for well over a decade, AOL is shutting down its free LISTSERV-based mailing-list hosting operations, the company told mailing list administrators.
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HTML5 WebSocket speeds up Web app comms
Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-related standard called WebSocket could cut some of this networking overhead, speeding responsiveness in Web applications, argued a Web app expert.
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HP Redstone server design using ARM chips
HP is developing servers based on a low-power microprocessor design from ARM Holdings, and claims it can slash power and space requirements by as much as 90 percent for companies running certain web-based applications.
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RIM BlackBerry tablet OS delayed until February 2012
A week after promising the PlayBook OS 2.0 to developers in October, RIM cites quality issues and says it will drop a key feature




