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Cisco boosted profit, sales in Q2 while cutting costs

Cisco Systems posted year-over-year gains in revenue and profit for its fiscal second quarter on Wednesday, reporting net sales up 10.8 percent to US$11.5 billion, and said it met a key cost-cutting goal one quarter early.
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Oracle stakes claim in R with Advanced Analytics launch

Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of R, the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops. It announced a new Advanced Analytics product on Wednesday that ties R to its database and family of software-hardware appliances.

Greenpeace scorecard documents greener enterprise offerings

Technology companies are not just making their products less carbon-intensive; they are also increasingly designing products to improve energy efficiency in the industries that they serve, according to the latest in a series of Greenpeace ratings of the sector's energy practices.

Red Hat launches storage appliance for Amazon's cloud

Red Hat has announced the Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can take advantage of Amazon's cloud while at the same time offering excellent performance, the company said on Tuesday.

SeaMicro puts 256 Xeon cores in server

SeaMicro on Tuesday announced a new microserver that incorporates 256 Xeon processor cores to enable faster delivery of data for Internet-based activities such as social media or search.

Oracle handed setback in HP Itanium case

A court in California rejected Oracle's bid to use a fraud claim to undo an agreement to support the Itanium processor, that it is said to have made with Hewlett-Packard.

Tilera targets Intel, ARM with 36-core server chip

Tilera on Monday announced availability of its new 36-core processor, which the company says can trump traditional x86 server chips from Intel in performance-per-watt.

Wall Street Beat: Enterprise spending helps mixed quarter for tech

There were weak spots in the last quarter of 2011 for sector bellwethers Google, IBM, Intel and Microsoft, but corporate demand for technology appeared to remain resilient going into what is expected to be a year of slower growth for global IT spending.

ARM will impact servers in 2014, CEO says

ARM hopes for a serious impact on the server market starting in 2014 when its 64-bit processor design reaches the market, CEO Warren East said.

ISC seeks wider input for BIND 10

The Internet Systems Consortium is looking for a few more good programmers to bring the next generation of its open source BIND DNS server software to fruition.

Google Leads Green IT Ranking

Google's motto of "Do No Evil" apparently extends to its environmental policies, as the company was recently ranked first on Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard for overall green practices. Google grabbed the top spot for the first time, ranking high due to recent disclosure of its own carbon footprint as well as its investment in utility projects such as a large-scale solar project taking place near Sacramento. Other reasons it made the top of the list? The RechargeIT.org project which was designed by Google to demonstrate the technology used in plug-in electric vehicles and to accelerate their adoption, as well as other actions such as increasing its renewable energy purchasing and creating a subsidiary called Google Engery.

Flaw in web app frameworks pushes Microsoft to patch ASP.net promptly

Many web app frameworks are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack targeting the way they handle hash tables, researchers revealed Wednesday, prompting Microsoft to announce an "out-of-band" patch for its ASP.NET platform just hours later.

First look: Dell Opteron server cranks up the cores with AMD 'Interlagos'

New 16-core AMD Opteron 6200-series CPUs in the Dell R715 bring huge bang for the buck to wide virtualization workloads, but not until your OS supports it

After Jobs: The Enterprise?

CEO Tim Cook should seriously try to get Apple into the enterprise market.

Devops gets developers and admins on the same page

Agile and other modern development methods mean programmers need to move fast -- but ops often won't let them

Check Point's new security blades cut both ways

If you're in the market for endpoint protection, Check Point's new R80 Unified Endpoint Security Management product shows promise.

Testing SSDs with SNIA's specification

Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis, and Tom Coughlin, founder of Coughlin Associates teamed with Calypso to compile a study on SSD performance that involved 18 different drives. No two drives had the same performance.

8 radical ways to cut data center power costs

One or more of these wild-eyed approaches could save you a lot of money -- and not cost you much

Games on company gear? Depends who you ask

Only about a third of more than a thousand respondents to a Network World online survey believe it's always wrong to use company equipment to host private video game sessions for groups of players.

Dell Opteron server packs plenty of punch

Dual-processor Dell PowerEdge R715 scores big on performance, features, and bang for the buck