A data center start-up is exiting stealth mode with technology that reduces power and cooling costs by analyzing the energy consumption of IT equipment and applications.
Microsoft's antitrust settlement offer to the European Commission needs minor, often cosmetic changes in order to restore fair competition to the market for Internet browsers, said some of the software giant's main rivals Thursday.
Initial sales of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, were "fantastic" in Japan and helped spur PC sales in the country, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
It has been 10 years since the Apache Software Foundation was founded, and this week at ApacheCon the group is showing why it is still going strong and working toward a brighter future.
EMC Ionix portfolio provides integrated, unified element manager for Vblock as part of Cisco, EMC and VMware coalition established to enable collaboration among the IT vendors.
Centrify announced last week that it has added Ubuntu 9.10 Server Edition to the long list of non-Windows operating systems whose authentication it has integrated with Active Directory. It has supported Ubuntu for quite some time, but what really exited the Centrify folk was the fact that this version of Ubuntu includes an open source cloud computing environment that can be easily integrated with Active Directory through the Centrify Suite for identity, access and privilege management.
A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft, but when a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won't stop Linux from market domination, that's an opinion to note. Keith Curtis, author of the book After the Software Wars, says just that. But he goes further. He thinks Microsoft and its customers would be better off if the company ditched Windows and instead built its own version of the Linux operating system.
SAP's revenue fell in the third quarter, but earnings rose -- although neither figure was as high as analysts had hoped. The company said it expected the decline in software and software-related service revenue to continue.
Jive has given its enterprise social-networking software what it calls its biggest overhaul yet, giving users the ability to collaborate on Microsoft Office files and to use the product from mobile devices, including an application built specifically for the iPhone.
CA introduces Spectrum Service Assurance 1.1, the vendor’s latest management application designed to ease the challenge of monitoring virtual and physical infrastructure to support IT services and guarantee optimal performance.
Salesforce.com and Adobe Systems on Monday announced Flash Builder for Force.com, an integrated development environment for building rich Internet applications deployable through browsers and on desktops.
Windows 7 has some highly touted features for corporate users, but they can only be had by purchasing Microsoft’s Software Assurance maintenance program.
Google has hit upon an interesting way of placating both China and India over the way its map application displays Arunachal Pradesh, a region whose ownership is disputed by the two countries.
While solid state drives offer increased performance, the key to figuring out the role they can play in the data center is balancing that performance against cost.
The number seemed staggering, but there it was. The cost of conducting the census has, on average, doubled each decade since 1970. If that rate of cost escalation continues into 2020, the nation could be looking at a $30 billion census.
I'm a dip-a-toe-in-the-water kind of guy. Although I've been playing with Windows 7 for a couple months now, I'm not quite ready to dive in. I want to make a more gradual move, keeping my Vista-based PC up and running while I slowly transition to the new OS.
Whether you're leaping directly from Windows XP to Windows 7 or you stopped in Vista territory along the way, you'll find that the latest version of Microsoft's operating system handles media files in several new ways. The methods for photo and video importing, editing, and exporting have been all updated. You have new options for sharing and streaming files between computers. And media libraries become more-versatile vessels for finding and managing media files. I'll explain how to get started with these and other entertainment features of Windows 7.