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With a new service, Amazon’s customers can ship hard drives full of data faster than they could transfer it over broadband
The battle between Craigslist and legal officials over adult ads is getting wackier by the minute. Pull up a seat and grab some popcorn
The deal will extend NetApp's reach into the growing disk-based backup market
Amid misgivings over past mismanagement, the MySQL community is fragmenting. If Oracle can't pull it together, Monty Widenius just might do it himself.
Know what you should ask users before troubleshooting -- it'll save you a lot of time
An IT tale that includes a region shutdown with monetary loss, an angry client, and a seemingly incriminating log-in trail
The Web's biggest classified ads service is cleaning up its act -- or, at least, making a show of it -- by swapping "erotic" ads for "adult" ones. But will anything really change?
IBM's System S analyzes data in continuously updated streams of information from multiple sources rather than static files pre-loaded into a data warehouse
A cautionary tale of what too many managers and too few IT staffers can look like