Why VMware isn?t flinching as Amazon?s cloud keeps growing
While VMware just revealed the specifics on its shared-infrastructure play and has to play catch-up with Amazon Web Services, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger can think of a few advantages of its own.
Top jobs of the week in tech
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Did Facebook finally let its server count slip?
Facebook has never been direct about the number of servers it has, but today at the GigaOM Structure conference, one of its executives let slip that it runs "hundreds of thousands of machines."
Europe to send rover to Mars
The robot, which is capable of working autonomously, will search for signs of life in soil samples. A complementary satellite will monitor the planet's atmosphere for unusual gases.