Amazon forced to reboot its EC2 instances to fix Xen bug
Amazon Web Services is set to begin a messy but necessary reboot of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances in order to fix a bug that was found within the Xen virtualization platform. The…
Xamarin bundles over 1,000 test devices in the cloud
Xamarin, the mobile app-dev specialists, has announced the launch of its new web-based “Xamarin Test Cloud”, which lets developers test out their apps and programs on over 1,000 devices. Developers will be able to…
Bash! Take that Heartbleed, there’s a new bug in town
Linux users, which includes the vast majority of the world’s enterprises, could be in for a nasty shock. A security team at Red Hat has just uncovered a deadly new bug in the Bash…
Anti-US sentiment to cause ‘dramatic change’ in the data center market
The world’s data center infrastructure market is bracing itself for “dramatic changes” over the next two to four years, according to a new report from Gartner Inc. Joe Skorupa, Gartner vice president and analyst,…
Ebola Maps: Tracking the deadly disease across West Africa
No matter if it’s Black Death in 1350, the Spanish Flu of 1918-19, or this year’s Ebola virus in West Africa, there’s one thing that deadly pandemics have in common – their progress takes a…
Canonical & Oracle tag team against Red Hat in OpenStack
Red Hat might be confident of its chances to become the world’s “undisputed” leader in OpenStack, but that hasn’t fazed rivals Canonical or Oracle, who’ve just announced a ‘tag team’ partnership to support each…
Western Europe plays catch-up with Big Data
Western Europe is lagging behind the U.S. in terms of Big Data use due to a shortage of skills and worries over data security, according to a new report from International Data Corporation (IDC).…
Rackspace takes another scalp in its crusade against patent trolls
Rackspace, which has taken on the mantle of ‘crusader’ against patent trolls, has just scored another crucial victory. But rather than just challenging the validity of the troll’s claims, this time round it’s actually…
Red Hat: We want to be “undisputed leader” in the cloud
Red Hat isn’t content with merely being the world’s largest enterprise Linux vendor. Now, it wants to become the industry’s leading enterprise cloud vendor as well, and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says he’s…
EMC flirts with HP & Dell in rumored $132bn Mega-Merger
Rumors of a mega-merger between storage giant EMC Corp., and rival firms Dell Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Company, have emerged in this morning’s Wall Street Journal. Citing its usual “people familiar with the matter,” the…