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Groping in the dark after Sun deal done
There hasn’t been a lot of talk yet from Oracle about their plans for HPC now that the Sun purchase has been consummated – so what’s going on?…

Puts hand out for $7m
Comment  Cloud backup service provider Spare Backup is looking for $7m by selling a secured revolving credit note. Why does it need the cash?…

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Police with bolt cutters ‘preserve PM’s honour’
Police intervention was required earlier this week when “political protesters” hacked a Sydney traffic sign and declared “Kevin Rudd sucks” to passing motorists in the city’s Rose Bay.…

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Hotmail hacking how-to for spooks and cops
Long-established privacy and cryptology website Cryptome was pulled offline on Wednesday after Microsoft launched a legal offensive over its publication of Redmond’s guide to internet wiretapping.…

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But wants to play the VM field
There has been some chatter about Citrix Systems – the corporate entity behind the open source Xen hypervisor and the commercialized XenServer product – hooking up with commercial Linux distributor Novell to work out some sort of deal to collaborate on Xen in a more meaningful way than they [...]

Could the Googlenet run on Vodka?
As Bloom Energy officially unveiled its much-hyped solid oxide fuel cell server – a “parking space”-sized device that converts air and fuel into electricity – Google co-founder Larry Page said the company hopes to eventually run an entire data center using the technology.…

Cisco Systems now a good buddy
HyTrust, a startup that came out of stealth mode last April with a security appliance to lock down and manage virtual servers running on VMware’s ESX Server hypervisor, has two new best friends: server wannabe and networking giant Cisco Systems and venture capitalist Granite Ventures.…

Skimming proceeds top $137,000
Three Bulgarian men were charged Wednesday with defrauding banks of more than $137,000 in a scheme that attached electronic skimming devices to numerous automatic teller machines in Massachusetts.…

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So, three Bakers enter the Pentagon…
Supercomputer maker Cray has staked a lot of its financial 2010 on its future “Baker” massively parallel Opteron-based servers and their new “Gemini” interconnect. And today, 2010 got off to a good start as Cray announced that the US Department of Defense has forked over more than $45m in tax [...]

Windows Terminal Services reborn
With today’s talk of application and desktop virtualization, it’s easy to forget there’s another, older way to deliver software in a controlled way to resource-constrained PCs: thin-clients.…