After two years since the release of Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, the Debian project team has officially released the new major version, 7.0 of its venerated Linux distribution. Code-named “Wheezy”, the new release brings a large number of major changes and new features including multiarch support, software speech support, tools for deploying private clouds, an improved installer, multimedia codecs, and many other features.
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After launching the first wave of its 22 nm Ivy Bridge processors almost a year ago, Intel releases a budget-friendly line of processors based on the current generation architecture. The new Celeron, Pentium, and Core dual-core CPUs are now available to the public with prices ranging from $42 to $117.
Read more →Long-characterized as the technology of the future, silicon photonics becomes front and center as the technology of today with Intel showing off a prototype photonic rack at the Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, January 16. Intel has spent the last decade working on silicon photonics, and is now collaborating with Facebook and the Open Compute Project to enable the technology, open-sourcing the a photonic receptacle design to the OCP.
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If you own a small or medium-sized website and don’t have enough IT resources to protect yourself against hacker attacks and malware infection, there’s good news. Israeli web security startup 6Scan has launched a free website security suite aiming to protect small businesses from website vulnerabilities and malware. Now small business owners can focus their effort on expanding their online presence while 6Scan scans and automatically fixes security vulnerabilities in real time with no manual intervention required.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012 saw the release of Intel’s new server-class processor series formally known as the Atom processor S1200 product family. Intel is touting the Atom S1200 as the industry’s first 6-watt system-on-chip (SoC) delivering the required datacenter features such as error code correction, 64-bit software and operating systems support, and virtualization technologies.
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To the delight of bloggers worldwide, the newest, much anticipated version of WordPress, version 3.5 has been released and is available for download. WordPress came around about nine years ago and since then has grown from a blogging platform into an efficient CMS tool that powers about 17% of the web. According to Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, the platform is at its “highest levels of engagement ever,” and the WordPress team has worked hard to make sure version 3.5 incorporates many important enhancements to satisfy users and support a growing number of sites.
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Intel has officially launched its latest generation of CPUs, codenamed Ivy Bridge, making the world’s first 22 nanometer processor cores featuring “tri-gate” 3D transistor technology available to the public. The quad-core versions of the new Ivy Bridge processors will be available for regular laptops and desktop PCs immediately, although the dual-core versions suitable for thinner Ultrabooks will be announced later this spring.
Read more →At Microsoft Management Summit 2012, which took place in Las Vegas on April 17, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Brad Anderson announced that the latest iteration of their server operating system – previously dubbed Windows Server 8 – will officially be called Windows Server 2012. Windows Server 2012 is in the beta testing stage right now and is expected to reach customers this calendar year.
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Citrix Systems has announced that it is submitting its CloudStack platform to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), a well-respected name in the open source community. The submission will make CloudStack the first cloud platform in the industry to join the ASF. In addition, contributing CloudStack as a project under the ASF will help accelerate Citrix’s mission of delivering a strong, viable, hypervisor-agnostic platform that helps customers build cloud architectures that resemble Amazon Web Services.
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Microsoft Corp. has recently announced that SQL Server 2012, the next-generation of the world’s most recognized and widely used data platform, is now generally available for purchase and download. With this new release, Microsoft is touting SQL Server 2012′s capabilities for mission-critical workloads with high availability and disaster recovery, business intelligence and the ability for customers to extend data across on-premises or public cloud.
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