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IGN Leverages Opscode to Consolidate and Automate Datacenters Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:00AMOpscode, Inc., the leader in cloud infrastructure automation, today announced that IGN, an Internet media and services provider focused on gaming and entertainment, is successfully using Hosted Chef from Opscode to integrate datacenters and automate and virtualize the company's infrastructure.
Ubuntu 11.04, code-named Natty Narwhal launched to local community Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 6:04AMThe latest release of the popular Linux flavor, Ubuntu release 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”, developed by the open source community and Canonical, is expected to elicit new experiences from older users of Ubuntu, as well as new users with its much improved graphical user interface (GUI) called Unity. The new GUI is far more than a [...]
Facebook reveals next-gen Open Compute wares Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 1:42PMThe Register: "Companies such as Facebook will profit or not based on how well their infrastructure scales, how little it costs to acquire and operate, and how densely it can be crammed into data centers."
Hostway Announces Expansion of Tampa-Based Data Center with FlexCloud™ Servers for Disaster Recovery and Redundancy Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 11:00AMFacility Provides Application Failure Protection for Enterprises and Lower Latency for Geographically Located End-Users
Dot Hill AssuredUVS Unified Virtual Storage Solutions Verified as Citrix Ready with Citrix XenServer Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 9:16AMLONGMONT, Colo., June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a leading provider of Unified Virtual Storage and SAN storage solutions, today announced it has joined the Citrix Ready® program . Participating in the program, Dot Hill AssuredUVS(TM) has achieved full verification with Citrix XenServer® . AssuredUVS version 2.4 is the first member of Dot Hill's portfolio to ...
IT admins gone wild: 5 rogues to watch out for Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 9:09AMYou can't survive without them. They wield enormous power over your systems, networks, and data -- the very lifeblood of your organization. Few people outside IT have any understanding of what they do, and fewer still exercise any oversight over their actions.
Vormetric Announces Transparent Encryption for SAP Tuesday, June 21, 2011 @ 7:35AMSAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vormetric Data Security for SAP provides transparent encryption for corporate crown jewels -- human resources, finance, and supply chain data -- without the need to modify SAP application modules.
HP FTP server broken into by Pakistani hacker HexCoder Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 7:12AMHacker claims to have access to 9GB of corporate data HP has become the latest to add its name to the rapidly growing list of high profile corporate hacking victims.
Boxee’s Mac, Windows & Linux Software To Get Major Updates Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 12:25PMBoxee users on Mac OS X, Windows or Linux can expect a major update to the media center with a social twist later this fall. On the official Box …
Panasonic targets smart TVs with 1.4GHz Cortex-A9 SoC Wednesday, June 8, 2011 @ 2:09PMPanasonic announced a system on chip (SoC) for the smart TV market that combines dual, 1.4GHz ARM Cortex-A9 cores with its own UniPhier media processor.
HP takes on IT sprawl with converged tools Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 6:48AMThe company plans to pre-package its Converged Infrastructure product lines in order to speed up implementations ( ZDNet UK - Enterprise Apps )
I gave away 7 Samsung Galaxy Tabs last night -- did you get one? Monday, June 6, 2011 @ 8:39AMEnthusiasts are the best marketers. Repeat until memorized. We live for enthusiasts here at Betanews, from bug-eyed junior high school students coding websites to grey-haired mainframe administrators turned Linux hacks or Windows Server admins.
Android tablet makers curbing production, says analyst Thursday, June 2, 2011 @ 10:54AMAfter relatively slow early sales, Asus, Motorola, and Samsung have reduced their Android tablet manufacturing plans by about 10 percent, according to a JP Morgan analyst.
Add This Article To: Sunday, May 29, 2011 @ 9:35AMHabey USA announced a compact, Mini-ITX-based signage PC based on a dual-core 1.8GHz Intel Atom D525 processor.
VidCoder: Rip DVDs with the Handbrake on Wednesday, May 11, 2011 @ 12:51AMOne of the most popular open-source tools for ripping and encoding video from DVD and Blu-ray is the cross-platform tool, Handbrake . One of the charges levelled at it, particularly from a Windows user's point of view, is that the user interface can be a little confusing and overwhelming, particularly for beginners.
Moore Performance Systems Introduce the Multi Core Multi Queue (MCQ) Software Suite Supporting Interface Masters ... Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @ 11:11AMMCQ Is a Distributed Processing Multicore and MultiQueue Infrastructure Software Suite, That Provides Classification, Filtering, Queuing, QOS-Rate-Limiting, and Packet Processing Engine Control
Red Hat Traffics with Troll – Again Sunday, May 8, 2011 @ 11:23AMAcacia Research, possibly one of the Top 10 trolls, or at least a Top 10 wannabe, said Friday that Red Hat had settled up with its Site Update Solutions LLC subsidiary and resolved the patent infringement litigation Site Update started in the federal court down in the Eastern District of Texas. The settlement is “confidential.” Patent watcher Florian Mueller is pretty confident Red Hat paid ...
Master IT support providers Chris and Greg Tinker's take on integrated technical support Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 1:05AMAs recent outages at Amazon Web Services and Sony PlayStation Network jar the common perception of IT business as usual, IT failures and performance snafus are nothing new, just perhaps much more prominent.
Sandia's mini supercomputer runs Linux on 196 Gumstix ARM modules Monday, May 2, 2011 @ 3:36PMSandia National Laboratories is demonstrating its latest mini supercomputer at ESC Silicon Valley this week, incorporating 196 TI OMAP3530-based Overo Tide modules running Linux.
MIPS Honeycomb port in progress Wednesday, April 27, 2011 @ 2:51PMMIPS Technologies says it's working on a port of Android 3.0 ("Honeycomb") to the MIPS architecture, and also announced a 15 percent year-to-year increase in revenues for its fiscal third quarter.
Verizon tips Droid Incredible 2, plus rugged Casio Commando phone Tuesday, April 26, 2011 @ 4:21PMVerizon Wireless announced two new Android 2.2 phones, led by HTC's four-inch, global-roaming Droid Incredible 2 phone, which features dual cameras, including an eight-megapixel model.
How to Source Clean Power? Ask! Tuesday, April 26, 2011 @ 2:47PMWe decided to dig a little deeper into the Greenpeace report on dirty data centers to find out what CIOs can do to find clean power.
Adobe Falls Out of Love with Linux Tuesday, April 26, 2011 @ 12:21PMAdobe quietly stopped supporting the thinly used Linux desktop last June, a development noticed by only a few like a smarting IBM, which reportedly has – or at least had – 16,000 Linux desktops inside. In the next couple of months Adobe is supposed to stop supporting AIR for Linux even though some 35% of developers are supposed to fancy Linux. The Linux desktop may have captured 1%-2% of PCs ...
Sony's Android tablet pair includes dual-screen model Tuesday, April 26, 2011 @ 10:51AMSony announced a pair of Android 3.0 tablets that integrate Sony's Qriocity video and audio, Sony Reader ebook content, and Playstation Suite games.
Novell sale: DoJ strictures on Microsoft Wednesday, April 20, 2011 @ 9:16PMThe US Department of Justice has announced that Microsoft will not be able to keep patents it planned to buy from Novell as part of a consortium. The consortium, CPTN Holdings, owned by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and EMC, had planned to buy 882 patents from Novell as part of the sale of the company to Attachmate Corporation. However, the sale had been delayed by anti-trust concerns. Under the ...
PICMG 1.3 Half-size CPU Card utilizes Intel Atom processors. Wednesday, April 20, 2011 @ 7:58AMSuited for space-limited and thermally constrained embedded applications, Model SHB212 is available with Intel® Atom(TM) 1.8 GHz D525 dual core processor, 1.80 GHz D425 single core processor, or 1.66 GHz N455 single core processor. One DDR3 667/800 MHz SO-DIMM supports up to 4 GB system memory. Dual-display support is provided through VGA port and 18-bit single channel LVDS interface. Requiring ...
Virgin Media Superhub customers still hitting big speed bump Tuesday, April 19, 2011 @ 7:59AMFirmware updates yet to fix glitches It's been nearly two months since our exclusive report about Virgin Media's Superhub router/modem combo boxes playing havoc with newly-upgraded customers' connections - but sadly for the telco there's still trouble at the mill.…
WinMagic Launches SecureDoc v5.2, the Only FDE Solution to Integrate Lenovo Hardware Password Manager for ThinkPad ... Tuesday, April 19, 2011 @ 5:08AMLONDON & TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WinMagic launches SecureDoc v5.2, the only FDE solution to integrate Lenovo Hardware Password Manager, Pre-Boot Networking & AES-NI at Infosecurity Europe (Booth 871)
Insyde® Software Ships InsydeH2O UEFI BIOS To Help Enable Tablets and Embedded Devices Based on the Intel® AtomT ... Friday, April 15, 2011 @ 6:40AMInsyde Software, a leading provider of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware and an affiliate member of the Intel® Embedded Alliance, today announced the availability of its flagship product InsydeH2OT UEFI firmware for the new Intel® AtomT processor Z670 and the Intel® SM35 Express chipset. In addition to ensuring UEFI specification compliance, this version of InsydeH2O has been ...
AMD adds USB 3.0 support to Hudson chipsets Wednesday, April 13, 2011 @ 10:04AMUSB 3.0 ports are becoming an ever more common addition to laptops and desktop PC motherboards. But any manufacturer wanting to add the fastest USB ports to their products can’t currently rely on chipset makers to provide it as standard. Neither Intel or AMD has added it yet, so a separate chip is required pushing [...]
Insyde® Software Ships InsydeH2O™ UEFI BIOS to Help Enable Tablets and Embedded Devices Based on the Intel® Atom™ ... Monday, April 11, 2011 @ 11:13PMBEAVERTON, Ore. & TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Insyde Software, a leading provider of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware and an affiliate member of the Intel® Embedded Alliance, today announced the availability of its flagship product InsydeH2O™ UEFI firmware for the new Intel® Atom™ processor Z670 and the Intel® SM35 Express chipset. In addition to ensuring UEFI ...
Insyde® Software Ships InsydeH2O™ UEFI BIOS to Help Enable Tablets and Embedded Devices Based on the Intel® Atom™ ... Monday, April 11, 2011 @ 11:00PMInsyde Software, a leading provider of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface firmware and an affiliate member of the Intel® Embedded Alliance, today announced the availability of its flagship product InsydeH2O™ UEFI firmware for the new Intel® Atom™ processor Z670 and the Intel® SM35 Express chipset.
Active Storage Conducts First-Ever Live ActiveSAN Demonstrations at NAB Monday, April 11, 2011 @ 2:27PMLAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Active Storage today began conducting the first-ever live demonstrations of ActiveSAN, the high-performance metadata controller appliance for Xsan and StorNext networks. NAB Booth SL5225 through Thurs
Active Storage Conducts First-Ever Live ActiveSAN Demonstrations at NAB Monday, April 11, 2011 @ 2:19PMActive Storage, the leader in high-performance storage solutions for media and creative professionals, today began conducting the first-ever, live demonstrations of ActiveSAN, the high-performance metadata controller appliance for Xsan and StorNext networks that set the Xsan, Apple communities abuzz on it’s January 31st launch.
ARRIS Adds XMS FLEX Streaming Media Engine to ConvergeMedia On Demand Distribution Platform Monday, April 4, 2011 @ 9:07AMARRIS today introduced the newest member of its ConvergeMedia Distribution platform: XMS FLEX, powered by a next generation Streaming Media Engine . Â The ConvergeMedia XMS FLEX is a flexible, feature-rich, commercial off-the-shelf server with SME scalable content delivery software to support the industry's broadest range of video applications.
Aberdeen Garners Best-in-Class Small Enterprise Storage Array: DCIG, LLC and Foskett Services provide an Invaluable ... Monday, April 4, 2011 @ 8:13AMPublished by the DCIG, LLC and Foskett Services, the independent Expanded Edition of the 2011 Small Enterprise Storage Array Buyer's Guide offers an objective view from a user's perspective. Solutions were ranked "Recommended," and/or "Best-in-Class," "Excellent," "Good," and "Basic" across functionality and capability with the intent to provide an "at-a-glance" comparison with the Aberdeen ...
Bill Baker Joins Simba Technologies' Advisory Board Friday, April 1, 2011 @ 7:52AMSimba Technologies Inc., industry's choice for standards-based relational and multi-dimensional data connectivity, announced today that Bill Baker has joined its Advisory Board.
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Arts Alliance Media Adds Sony, GDC, Qube to TMS Portfolio Wednesday, March 30, 2011 @ 7:24AMLAS VEGAS, NV—Arts Alliance Media (AAM), Europe’s leading digital cinema company, has announced it is expanding the scope of its Theatre Management System (TMS) to integrate with Sony, GDC and Qube screen servers.
Sazneo Offers Group Chat For Business Thursday, March 24, 2011 @ 5:12PMThe browser-based, cloud service groups messages into channels established around teams, departments, and initiatives.
Aircell unveils Android in-flight phone Thursday, March 24, 2011 @ 4:06PMInflight telephony vendor Aircell announced its first Android-based phone, designed specifically for business aircraft. Due later this year, the Aircell Smartphone offers a 3.8-inch screen, said to be the largest available in the aviation telephony market.
Acer's 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet gains a carrier Wednesday, March 23, 2011 @ 11:36AMAT&T announced it will offer the 10-inch Acer Iconia Tab A501 tablet beginning this summer, featuring Android 3.0 running on a dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.
Ubuntu Linux aims to give back with Debian Dex Wednesday, March 23, 2011 @ 8:29AMNetstat -vat: "Debian is the mother distro to many children derivative distros, including Ubuntu. Sometimes those derivatives give back to the upstream, but it's not always easy."
First look at Square Enix’s upcoming MMORPG, Wakfu Thursday, March 17, 2011 @ 2:09PMHelp your nation to greatness, or bask in corruption in Square Enix and developer Ankama's upcoming MMORPG for the PC, Wakfu.
T-Mobile revamps Sidekick as Samsung-built Android slider Tuesday, March 15, 2011 @ 10:51AMT-Mobile unveiled a new version of its Sidekick messaging phone featuring Android 2.2 instead of the old "Danger" operating system.
A post-PC world? Heck no, says research firm Friday, March 11, 2011 @ 2:51PMWhile Apple CEO Steve Jobs and his retinue of media followers are claiming we live in a "post-PC world," that's far from the case, according to IHS iSuppli. In fact, global PC shipments were up 14 percent last year, hitting a record level of 345.4 million units, the research firm says.
Safari/MacBook First To Fall At Pwn2Own 2011 Thursday, March 10, 2011 @ 4:37AMrecoiledsnake writes "A team of security researchers from the French pen-testing firm VUPEN successfully exploited a zero-day flaw in Apple's Safari browser to win this year's Pwn2Own hacker challenge. The hijacked machine was running a fully patched version of Mac OS X (64-bit). Bekrar's winning exploit did not even crash the browser after exploitation. Within five seconds of surfing to the ...
A Consumer Guide to Selecting a Computer Forensic Service In Texas Wednesday, March 9, 2011 @ 2:00PMMcCann Global Investigations releases a quide for consumers to use to help to select a computer forensic firm. This quide is a series of questions that the consumer can ask a possible provider of services.
A Consumer Guide to Selecting a Computer Forensic Service In Texas Wednesday, March 9, 2011 @ 8:08AMMcCann Global Investigations releases a quide for consumers to use to help to select a computer forensic firm. This quide is a series of questions that the consumer can ask a possible provider of services. (PRWeb March 09, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/3/prweb8191823.htm
Adventures in Debian Monday, March 7, 2011 @ 11:06AMOStatic: "When one's computer becomes unstable, it's natural to think first of a particular app or the desktop. After that, one may tend to suspect the operating system. Finally one may find it turns out to be hardware at fault."