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Data centers play fast and loose with reliability credentials

The Uptime Institute says some data centers are getting creative with their reliability claims

In role reversal, Ballmer stays composed, Gates chokes up, in shareholder meeting

It was another farewell appearance for Ballmer, who will retire as CEO at some point in the next nine months or so

Yahoo CEO Mayer talks mobile strategy, design approach

Marissa Mayer appeared with Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco

Review: Google gets it right with Nexus 5 Android smartphone

Finally, Google's flagship smartphone can actually compete with other Android flagships

The rise of white-box switches

Software-defined networking centralizes control logic and argues for generic switch hardware -- and should drive strong adoption of white-box switches

Google strengthens its SSL configuration against possible attacks

The company completed its planned switch to SSL certificates with 2048-bit keys ahead of schedule

Ubuntu Linux server with ARM processor rolled out by Boston Limited

The Viridis Microserver will run on low-power ARM Cortex-A15 processors and is certified to run Ubuntu Linux 13.10

Devil is in the details of Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration

EnterpriseDB execs have moved customers off Oracle, but contracts and app packages can tangle switch to PostgreSQL

Intel rushes to exascale with redesigned supercomputing chip

Intel's Xeon Phi chip will have memory and throughput improvements