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BMC buys Compuware from Thoma Bravo in mainframe software market consolidation deal
KKR-owned BMC Software to create mainframe giant with acquisition of Thoma Bravo-owned Compuware
Microsoft unveils resuscitated PowerToys Windows utilities
Microsoft uploads new PowerToys utilities to GitHub for Windows 10 users to play with
Google seeks judicial review over Java APIs case with Oracle
Google asks court for clarification over Java API ruling that could affect the global software industry
Can backups really protect you against ransomware?
4,000 ransomware attacks occurred every day in 2016 - can backups protect against all of them?
StorageOS goes into beta and free availability in the Docker Store
British cloud-storage software start-up goes public with storage platform designed by developers from financial services organisations
Visual Studio 2017 ships promising a leaner footprint, easier bug hunting and better collaboration and publishing features
More accessible Visual Studio promises better GitHub integration, too
D-Wave open sources quantum software development tool qbsolv
D-Wave releases problem-solving tool to open source in a bid to build quantum development environment
IBM and Nvidia join forces with AI deep learning software
Three popular open source frameworks combined in custom GPU project
The curse of slow applications and how to lift it: now available on demand
Watch our latest web seminar with Nimble Storage and catch up with the debate
Google offers free Project Shield tool to help combat DDoS attacks
Project Shield has been released for use by news and human rights organisations
Lenovo Solution Center contains vulnerabilities that 'could allow' remote code execution, admits company
Dell and Toshiba support software also open to exploits
Volkswagen scandal: Our emission readers are based on input and real-time adjustment, says Volvo
No cheating software in Sweden, says Volvo's business analytics chief
Turkcell cuts call problem resolution times in half with Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance
Will also help Turkey grow to 4.5G data in the near future
Experiences in hybrid cloud at the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Rocco Labellarte explains the business outcomes of great changes
Microsoft Azure CTO: Hybrid cloud is here to stay, and that's what Azure offers over AWS
'It's hard to predict how many years, but I don't think it'll ever be completely done,' says Russinovich
Enterprise wastes £250bn a year on failed digital projects, finds report
Only 30 per cent of firms successfully align technology and analytics to business outcome
Have we reached peak virtualisation?
Computing Research reveals that uptake of server and storage virtualisation may have plateaued
Robots replace 90 per cent of humans in Chinese factory - productivity increases 162 per cent
Our robot overlords are finally here, and they want YOUR job, citizen
Doing DevOps without monitoring and measurement? Expect to fail, warns New Relic's Abner Germanow
'If you don't measure the progress that you're making and you're not doing it in a data-driven fashion, you will fail,' says Germanow
Why LeadDesk called on MariaDB's MaxScale to ease its growing pains
Fast-expanding cloud-based call centre platform had hit the limits of its LAMP stack
Monitoring high availability clusters: Why Ping Identity chose Severalnines over SolarWinds
We needed a solution that monitors Galera MySQL clusters and MongoDB, chief reliability engineer tells Computing
Can big data analytics increase cancer survival rates?
Four ways in which big data analytics can help in the battle to enable more people survive the scourge of cancer
Big data and the need for speed
The database can be a bottleneck in organisations' efforts to gain actionable insights from their data, says EXASOL CMO
What were delegates' key take aways from Computing's Data Centre and Infrastructure Summit 2014?
Delegates were involved in many discussions at Computing's Data Centre and Infrastructure Summit 2014 - here are some of their key take aways on the day.