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IDC: Server market revenue down 7.7 percent in Q1 | Intel jumps into cloud gaming with first Haswell server chip

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Get ready for a flood of new Hadoop apps
The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new workload management tool that backers of the project say will make it easier for developers to build applications for the big data platform. Read More

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Choosing the Right Tech for Your Business Analytics Project
The size, speed and scalability of different business analytics technologies vary greatly. The advantages and disadvantages of RDBMS, In-Memory and In-Chip technologies are detailed in this report. Read Now!

IDC: Server market revenue down 7.7 percent in Q1
Server revenue worldwide was down 7.7 percent year-over-year in the first quarter, as weak economic conditions and server consolidation by customers slowed sales, according to research firm IDC. Read More

Intel jumps into cloud gaming with first Haswell server chip
Intel is jumping into cloud gaming with the new Xeon E3-1200v3 chips, which are the company's first server processors based on the Haswell microarchitecture. Read More

Dell scapegoats Windows 8 -- again
Dell says Windows 8 contributed to a decline in its PC-related revenue during the quarter that ended May 3. Read More

China surpassing U.S. with 54.9 petaflop supercomputer
China has produced a supercomputer capable of 54.9 petaflops, more than twice the speed of any system in the U.S., according to a U.S. researcher who was in China last week and learned the details. Read More

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Top 10 Benefits of Virtualization
In this eGuide, Network World sister publications InfoWorld, and PC World examine some of the current uses of blade servers in today's data center, as well as how trends such as server virtualization are reshaping enterprise computing. Read Now!

Lower license costs alone won't save Windows RT from extinction
Windows RT has struggled to gain adoption for months. Samsung and Acer are among the companies abandoning RT devices, while Toshiba, Hewlett Packard, and HTC won't touch it. So Microsoft's latest effort to boost Windows RT is apparently to cut the licensing costs device makers pay to use the ARM-based version of Windows. Read More

Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has left the company
Microsoft CIO Tony Scott has left the company after five years. Read More

Tornadoes and data centers are OK in Oklahoma
If the question about tornadoes comes up at his Oklahoma City data center, as it sometimes does, Todd Currie, vice president of operations and general manager at Perimeter Technology, has answers. He even has cutout sample of his roof to show how it is built. Read More

Western Digital ships its first rack-mount storage system
Western Digital, a company well known for manufacturing consumer and enterprise hard drives, as well as small NAS boxes for the SMB market, is expanding its focus on the latter market with a new line of rack-mount storage systems. Read More

WEBCAST: IBM

Boost Profitability with Better Planning & Mobile Reporting
This session will discuss how Ashurst, a top-tier legal service provider for private and public sector clients worldwide, was able to effectively manage organizational change and improve their profitability using IBM Business Analytics. Learn More.

Dell's server strategy paying off
The decline in PC spending has hit Dell hard, but the company's server business is growing, said IDC in its first quarter report on the worldwide server market. Read More

Products of the week 6.03.13
Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Dell and McAfee Read More

Microsoft's opening act since Windows 95: Weezer
The radio ad caught my attention: Microsoft is opening a retail store in the nearby Natick Mall on June 8 and the ceremonies will be followed by a free concert that evening by ... Weezer? Really? Read More

Check out Twitter's 10 most antisocial celebrities
The idea for this slideshow - Twitter's 10 most antisocial celebrities - was born when I noticed that Stephen Colbert has almost 5 million followers but followed absolutely no one. (He has since started following former President Bill Clinton after Clinton appeared on Colbert's show.) Read More

SLIDESHOWS

The 20 best iPhone/iPad games of 2013 so far

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