Facebook heat maps pinpoint data center trouble spots
Faced with the challenge of overseeing the health of large caching systems, a Facebook engineer developed heat-map software to quickly pinpoint problems in the social network's data centers. The visualization monitoring tool, called Claspin, uses the heat map format to portray the working status of Facebook's servers.
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Salesforce.com's Benioff: Social networking is the latest tech revolution
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff on Wednesday doubled down on the company's embrace of social networking software, urging customers, partners and prospects to join him in a "social revolution," during a keynote address at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco that was webcast.
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Dell announces new Windows 8 lineup for businesses
Dell rolled out its new lineup of business-focused Windows 8 computers Wednesday, announcing that it would add two portable Latitude devices and a desktop OptiPlex to its offerings once the new Microsoft operating system is released.
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New IE exploit variant used to distribute PlugX malware, researchers say
Researchers from security vendor AlienVault have identified a variant of a recently discovered Internet Explorer exploit that is used to infect targeted computers with the PlugX RAT (remote access Trojan) program.
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Dell carves out new servers from 10-petaflop supercomputer
Dell announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed at the University of Texas, Austin, starting next year.
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HTC, Microsoft announce 'signature' Windows Phone 8 smartphones
HTC, along with Microsoft, Wednesday introduced Windows Phone 8X and 8S smartphones that will be the signature devices for the software maker's upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS. The Windows Phone 8X and 8S smartphones will have 4.3- and 4-inch screens, respectively. The smartphones will support LTE, but availability of 4G will depend on wireless carriers, said an HTC representative showing off the phones at an event in New York.
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Salesforce.com reveals details of upcoming Chatterbox, Identity services
Salesforce.com on Wednesday revealed more details of its upcoming Chatterbox file-sharing service, which is set to compete with the likes of Box and Dropbox, as well as a new identity management platform called Salesforce Identity.
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Security startup isolates untrusted content in virtual machines
Security software startup Bromium is shipping its first product, a virtualization client that runs any untrusted content inside its very own virtual machine -- a microVM -- protecting the underlying operating system and whatever content is stored on the physical machine from theft and malware infection.
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Suse Manager applies SCAP to Linux compliance
Organizations using the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) to manage their Suse and Red Hat Linux servers can streamline their reporting operations, thanks to an update of the Suse Manager that now generates metrics and reports in the SCAP format. The newly released Suse Manager also includes complete support for IPv6. Suse is announcing the release of this software during its SuseCon conference, being held this week in Orlando, Florida.
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Salesforce.com unveils Social Key, Chatter communities, Marketing Cloud
Salesforce.com on Wednesday is set to unveil a series of products for mobile computing, social collaboration, social analytics and marketing during the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Perhaps the most technically ambitious product to be announced is Social Key. This will build upon Salesforce.com's Data.com service, which provides business contact data for lead-generation and other sales purposes.
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Samsung increases future smartphone storage capacity to 128GB
Samsung Electronics' semiconductor arm has begun volume production of 128GB embedded memory modules for next-generation smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, the company said on Tuesday. An upgrade to 128GB would double or quadruple the storage capacity compared to today's high-end smartphones. Apple's new iPhone 5 has up to 64GB of integrated storage while the recently announced Optimus G from LG Electronics and Nokia's Lumia 920 both have 32GB.
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Microsoft raises Office 2013 prices to push new Office 365 sub plans
Microsoft this week raised prices of its Office suite by as much as 17 percent and eliminated multilicense packs, all part of a plan to push consumers and small businesses toward new subscription programs, analysts said. On Monday, Microsoft unveiled pricing for Office 2013, the next version of its suite sold as a perpetual license, and for two new plans in the by-subscription Office 365 lineup.
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OpenStack Foundation launches
After almost a year of preparation, the OpenStack Foundation has launched as a stand-alone nonprofit organization, freeing its namesake stack of open source cloud hosting software from the management of hosting provider Rackspace.
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