System Management News
Systems management, cloud services likely in Dell's software acquisition plans
Dell's formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by the vendor, with...
Cisco CTO: Software integration will drive intelligent networks
Networking giant Cisco plans to make software one of the company's "core competencies", with the aim of creating a networking operating system...
Nimbus puts up its new all-flash array against disk arrays
Nimbus today announced an enterprise-class version of its all-NAND flash primary storage array that sports redundant controller modules and twice the...
In Search of an Energy Yardstick
We take a comprehensive look at the new green-IT metrics for measuring data center efficiency and productivity from The Green Grid and other industry...
John Deere plows into agile
John Deere & Co., has moved about 800 software developers into an agile development process, and did so in just over a year.
HDD Crunch May Have Far-reaching Effects
The global supply of hard disk drives may be slow to rebound, with a ripple effect that's threatening small businesses and PC makers. The...
Oracle Move Could Push Rivals Toward Big Data Bundles
The shipping of Oracle's Big Data Appliance earlier this month could pressure major rivals like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and SAP to come up with...
Micron to acquire PCIe virtualization vendor Virtensys
SSD-maker Micron Technology announced it has signed an agreement to purchase Virtensys, a maker of PCIe virtualization appliance.
The Agile Infrastructure
To keep pace with a fast-changing business environment, these companies are ditching inflexible legacy systems in favor of software as a service and...
Oracle's Big Data Appliance brings focus to bundled approach
Oracle's Big Data Appliance product, which shipped Tuesday, gives enterprises another option for deploying projects based on Apache Hadoop open...
The year's best hardware, software, and cloud services
InfoWorld's Test Center unveils the 2012 Technology of the Year Awards
IT staffers shed 1,500 pounds
Kaiser Permanente's 'CIO Challenge' pumps up IT morale while promoting healthier lifestyles.
NOAA migrates to Google Apps, but gives users options
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has moved 25,000 employees and contractors to Google Apps for Government.
2011: When cloud computing shook the data center
In a year of surging private cloud activity and major build-outs in public cloud capacity, the cloud's promised simplification remains elusive
'Server huggers' impede cloud migrations
Chipita America has become almost serverless over the past six years by moving its ERP, EDI and BI systems, Office and Exchange applications and file...
Introducing Windows Server 8: The InfoWorld special report
Microsoft rolls out one of its most significant updates with the next version of Windows Server 8; find out what it means for your company
CA Technologies CEO: Doing what the customer needs
As part of the IDG Enterprise CEO Interview Series, William McCracken, chief executive officer of CA Technologies, spoke at the recent CA World...
Microsoft, HP unveil joint cloud offering
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, hardly strangers to joint product efforts, are now teaming up to sell cloud services.
Java apps have most flaws, Cobol apps the least, study finds
There is a lot of badly engineered software in the world that's creating a lot of risk to businesses and organizations, and accumulating so-called...
Usenix: Dartmouth expanding diff, grep Unix tools
With some funding from Google and the U.S. Energy Department, a pair of computer scientists at Dartmouth University are updating the venerable grep...
In Search of an Energy Yardstick
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