Volano has submitted this benchmark to the SPEC Open Systems Group for possible use in the group's server-side Java benchmark suite.

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Traditionally, a server within a rack would each have its own group of resources.

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As part of the spree of data breaches that the loose hacker movement Anonymous is calling AntiSec, the group announced Monday that it had penetrated a server belonging to the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and released what it claims are 90, 000 military email addresses, encrypted passwords and an assortment of data related to other companies and government networks.

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Lesswatts.org will host a group of software developers working to build Linux operating system upgrades that use server hardware more efficiently and save energy.

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The newspaper said groups affected by the cuts include Windows, Office, Server and Tools, Online Services and Windows Phone as well as the central marketing group.

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But most of those sites still remain vulnerable to SQL injection--meaning the same group of hackers or a copycat group could use similar techniques to redirect the sites' visitors to another server hosting malicious software, Danchev argues.

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Bill Zeitler, the senior vice president of IBM's systems and technology group, said IBM would garner 1 point of market share in the server market each year between now and 2010 in, with server growth in the mid single digits.

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