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China's Huawei eyes bigger share of server market with new Tecal V2 products | AMD reaches for the cloud with new server chips

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Cisco incubating software-defined network startup?
Cisco is reportedly considering incubating an internal startup chartered to develop the company's software-defined networking product line. Read More


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China's Huawei eyes bigger share of server market with new Tecal V2 products
China's Huawei Technologies, best known as a telecommunication equipment supplier, is making a greater push into the server market as the company faces the challenge of boosting its brand awareness among enterprise customers. Read More

AMD reaches for the cloud with new server chips
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday is expected to announce new Opteron 3200 series chips for low-end servers, which the company hopes will give it a competitive edge over Intel in the cloud server market. Read More

Microsoft plans Q4 debut for Dynamics ERP on the Azure cloud
Microsoft is planning to roll out its first "cloud-enabled" Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications by the end of this year, the company announced Monday during the Convergence conference in Houston. Read More


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Mobile strategy—what are 1,000 businesses planning for 2012
The Mobile Business Forecast 2012 surveyed 1,000 global businesses on their current/future plans for mobile. The report offers insight into how companies are using mobile to address the needs of consumers and their own employees. In addition, find tips on how to avoid chaos in the rush to mobilize. Learn More

Citrix releases desktop as a service improvements for providers
As desktop as a service (DaaS) continues to mature as a potential option for enterprises, service providers are attempting to automate and optimize their DaaS offerings, which officials at Citrix say will ultimately lead to lower costs and more choices for end users. Read More

Dell and HP Are Key to Success of Windows 8 Tablets
Dell is committed to joining the tablet fray once again--this time with Windows 8 tablets aimed at going head-to-head with the Apple iPad. That is good news for Microsoft because Windows 8 tablets will essentially be dead on arrival without strong support from Dell and HP. Read More

IBM battles dire mainframe myths
The perception of mainframe technology as outmoded or inefficient is wildly inaccurate in a number of important ways, according to IBM's chief architect for cloud computing, Frank DeGilio. Read More


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Judea Pearl, a big brain behind artificial intelligence, wins Turing Award
Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone's Siri speech recognition technology and Google's driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. Read More

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Developer cooks up 30-day 'Butter Egg Challenge'
"So, rise and shine," implores cloud developer Jason Nunnelley at the start of his YouTube video. "Had a really rough one yesterday; spent several hours working on some server data recapturing; anyway ..." Read More



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