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Fifty years on, mainframer remembers 'a fantastic time to be an engineer'
The make-or-break project kept engineers just out of college working around the clock hunting down bugs. The product had so much buzz that...
The mainframe turns 50, or, why the IBM System/360 launch was the dawn of enterprise IT
In many ways, the modern computer era began in the New Englander Motor Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Microsoft to give Windows away for phones, small tablets
Hardware vendors making smartphones and tablets with screens smaller than 9 inches will get Windows for free, the latest aggressive move by Microsoft...
Canonical to close Ubuntu One cloud-storage service
Canonical is shutting down its Ubuntu One cloud-storage service rather than continue to go up against competitors such as Dropbox, Google Drive and...
Nadella wins praise for public debut as CEO
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's first public appearance on Thursday was a hit with analysts, who gave him a thumbs up for his time on stage as the...
Box to offer usage-based pricing, file conversion service
As it heads toward an estimated US$250 million initial public offering, cloud storage and collaboration provider Box is thinking outside, well,...
Open Compute Project chief Frankovsky quits Facebook
Open Compute Project Foundation leader Frank Frankovsky, who founded the project with colleagues at Facebook to help foster scalable data centers in...
The ultimate guide to proper SSD management
There's no understating it: Solid-state drives are awesome. If you're still using a mechanical hard drive on your computer, the biggest real...
Servergy becomes first company outside of IBM to build Power server
IBM for decades was the only company making servers based on its proprietary Power architecture, but that's not the case anymore.
Cisco plans $1B investment in global cloud infrastructure
Cisco Systems plans to invest over $1 billion to expand its cloud business over the next two years, including building an OpenStack-based...
Cisco plans $1B investment in global cloud infrastructure
Cisco Systems plans to invest over US$1 billion to expand its cloud business over the next two years, including building an OpenStack-based...
iOS tops Android for Web browsing in U.S. and other developed nations
Android smartphones from all manufacturers make up nearly 80% of all smartphones recently sold worldwide, but iOS still dominates when it comes to...
Review: Riverbed brings branch office storage back to the data center
Riverbed Granite 2.5 eliminates remote office server administration and backup pains by delivering iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage over the WAN
Tested: Which PC upgrades offer the biggest performance boost for your buck?
Upgrading an aging PC is a bit of a crapshoot. Sure, a faster processor or GPU, more memory, or a solid state drive can significantly speed up a...
Symantec fires CEO, appoints interim replacement
Symantec fired its second CEO in less than two years on Thursday, dismissing Steve Bennett and putting a board member in charge while the security...
SpiderOak streamlines its enterprise secure-cloud pricing to $5 per user
Cloud storage provider SpiderOak has simplified the pricing of its enterprise service, updated its management console and introduced a mobile app for...
Lenovo rallies troops after rivals swoop on IBM server deal
Lenovo will send a memo to its server sales team on Tuesday, urging them to ignore the "uncertainty and doubt" its rivals are sowing over...
IBM latest tech company to deny links with NSA spy program
IBM said it has not provided client data to the U.S. National Security Agency or any other government agency under surveillance programs involving...
3 easy Linux alternatives for Windows XP refugees who don't want a new PC
Windows XP's refugees have two choices on April 8, when Microsoft stops supporting the decade-old operating system (for consumers, anyway). This...
Hands on with iOS 7.1: A few good improvements
Apple's latest upgrade to its mobile operating system, iOS 7.1, adds some useful touches and fixes some of the glitches that appeared in the...
Review: Riverbed brings branch office storage back to the data center
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