As it continues to build and develop a global grid network of supercomputers, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has just upgraded a key supercomputer in California to give it more power for research. The upgraded machine is now the most powerful high-performance computing system used by NASA scientists to date, according to the agency.
IBM Corp. is accelerating its push of Linux in the financial industry by opening a Linux showcase in Manhattan where customers can get hands-on views of what the operating system can do for their businesses.
The creators of Apache Web Server software said today that all Apache users are potentially affected by security vulnerabilities that were announced yesterday, even as a controversy continues about how the flaws were initially made public.
Oracle Corp. Tuesday announced fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of US$2.8 billion, beating analysts estimates.
Two security alerts about new vulnerabilities affecting the popular open-source Apache Web Server have been posted by two groups today.
Setting up a secure server isn't necessarily for the faint of heart.
Troubled software vendor Peregrine Systems Inc. is selling its supply chain enablement business and has obtained a US$50 million loan as it continues to cope with an internal investigation into alleged accounting irregularities.
Two weeks after beginning shipments of the Korean language version of its new Visual Studio .Net developers software in April, Microsoft Corp. learned that the software accidentally included a file that was infected by the destructive Nimda worm.
Fueled by growing business deployment of Linux in the financial services market, software and services vendor J.D. Edwards & Co. will release a Linux-ported version of its customer relationship management (CRM) application by the end of the year.
Improvements in the latest version of Web site and network performance monitoring software from Keynote Systems now tell e-commerce companies far more than just whether there's a problem with their revenue-generating Web site. The new features are designed to give real-time information on what the problem is and how to fix it.
Internet registry and trust services vendor VeriSign Inc. is launching a new division to offer network call switching and billing services to telecommunications companies.
Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse needed a new operating system so its stores could deploy new applications and redeploy existing applications and services to take advantage of a Web-based architecture. At the same time, the company wanted to reduce costs and capitalize on its long-standing success with Unix, says Michael Prince, vice president and CIO.
To help customers be better prepared in the event that a disaster strikes their IT operations, IBM Corp. today is launching a new services unit that focuses on quickly getting businesses back on their feet after their IT infrastructure is damaged or destroyed.
After seven months of upgrades, tweaks and adding new features, Red Hat Inc. is unveiling the latest version of its open-source Linux operating system.
In a move to increase revenue and its services business, Linux and Unix vendor Caldera International will now offer global support for other brands of Linux, including those of Red Hat Inc. and SuSE Linux AG.