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 After taking giant bites out of Apple, Android chief Andy Rubin is apparently sated.
He’s stepping away from his fiefdom, according to a blog post by Google CEO Larry Page, to look for something else to do inside of Google.
Chrome and Apps chief Sundar Pichai, who turned down a job...Mar. 14, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,667 |
 VMware has started a new Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit and hired Bill Fathers, the former president of Savvis, the cloud computing and managed hosting outfit, to run it.
VMware, whose stock is at its lowest ebb in three years, made the announcement at a Strategic Forum for Inst...Mar. 14, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 4,953 |
 The new open source cloud orchestration platform called OpenStack is the promise of flexible network virtualization, and network overlays are looking closer than ever. The vision of this platform is to enable the on-demand creation of many distinct networks on top of one underlying phy...Mar. 14, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,709 |
 Oracle announced today that it has agreed to acquire Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software. Nimbula's technology helps companies manage infrastructure resources to deliver service, quality and availability, as well as workloads in private and hybrid cl...Mar. 13, 2013 10:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,743 |
 How do we connect clouds and improve SLA control? As the Internet has no SLA, many organizations are concerned of being exposed to the vagaries of the Internet. There are only a few options for concrete quality of service (QoS) when accessing public clouds.
In his session at the 12th...Mar. 13, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,693 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that DreamHost, a global leader in Web hosting and cloud services, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, and 13th International Cloud Expo, whic...Mar. 13, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,885 |
 Egnyte, the file-sharing, file-storage, not to mention backup hybrid cloud for business, is integrating with third-party public cloud storage starting with the ever-popular – and increasingly cheap – Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure and NetApp StorageGrid so its EgnyteP...Mar. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,088 |
 Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on its web site Tuesday that it’s decided to open a criminal investigation into the allegations made by Hewlett-Packard about the circumstances surrounding the sale of Autonomy to HP in 2011. But first it’s got to figure out if it’s in conflict...Mar. 13, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,250 |
 IDC has been watching the growing popularity of the smaller, lower-priced tablets.
It found that one in two tablets that shipped this quarter had a screen measuring less than eight inches. It figures this strong trend is going to continue – strongly enough, in fact, for it to tickle ...Mar. 13, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,746 |
 Dell Software has launched its next-generation Dell Boomi Master Data Management (MDM) that delivers a comprehensive set of features and capabilities in a single cloud-managed solution. This marks a fundamental shift: now mid-sized companies can take advantage of an MDM solution that s...Mar. 13, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,953 |
 Organizations want extraordinary results from their IT units. Today's mantra is faster delivery, better quality, cheaper solutions, and safer environments. Many CIOs are implementing cloud computing enterprise architectures to address these challenges with results varying greatly. Why ...Mar. 13, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,946 |
 The traditional databases of the 20th century were never designed to scale to meet 21st century data demands. Google alone processes about 24 petabytes of data/day. With the added complexity of heavily virtualized hardware and storage plus apps being moved in and out of private, hybrid...Mar. 12, 2013 07:30 PM EDT Reads: 6,810 |
 Bring the solution to your CEO. In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Rob LaMear, CEO & Founder of Fpweb.net, shares his findings while talking cloud with over 1,000 CEOs around the globe. Delegates will learn what cloud barriers exist and how to remove them.
Rob LaMear...Mar. 12, 2013 07:00 PM EDT Reads: 5,613 |
 Reportedly prodded by IBM, Dell has moved to try to eclipse a hush-hush Cisco attempt to ride roughshod over software-defined networking (SDN) and rally the industry behind a proprietary Cisco standard in a consortium code-named Daylight.
News of the counter-insurgency is reportedly ...Mar. 12, 2013 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 3,297 |
 One of the most compelling promises of the cloud is that you can pull out a credit card and be working in minutes. No purchase orders to fill out, no equipment to wait for on the loading dock. Just instant access to the resources you need, when you need them. But accessibility comes at...Mar. 12, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,072 |
 Riverbed Technology on Monday announced the availability of new product capabilities, developer tools and a supporting community that allow IT professionals to customize and adapt their IT infrastructure to meet the demands of their business and improve the experience of their users. A...Mar. 12, 2013 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,273 |
 QLogic on Monday announced that its 2600 Series 16Gb Fibre Channel adapters are now available through the EMCSelect program for a broad range of EMC storage platforms. EMC customers can now implement QLogic's award-winning 16Gb Fibre Channel technology for high performance storage envi...Mar. 12, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,232 |
 Google Apps Script is a cloud-based JavaScript environment that allows you to write powerful applications and workflows around Google Apps such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Sheets. The development is entirely within a browser and it's free and easy to get started.
In his upcoming sessi...Mar. 12, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,729 |
 Everyone is talking about Big Data but what does that really mean for companies trying to understand how to make data meaningful for decision making. To leverage Big Data, you have to be able to take the key results and use those patterns or anomalies in context with historical data to...Mar. 12, 2013 08:15 AM EDT Reads: 7,478 |
 There are five essential tools and processes required to manage costs in the cloud.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Greg Arnette, Founder & CTO of Sonian, will show how by using these tools, the cloud can be more cost-effective and reliable than traditional co-lo...Mar. 12, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,813 |
 Activist investor Carl Icahn, who was found last week to have accumulated 6% of Dell and is threatening to upset Michael Dell’s plans to take the company private, has signed a confidentiality pact with the company that will let him look at its books.
The Blackstone Group has a simila...Mar. 12, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,075 |
 Update: When I wrote this post three weeks ago, Appzero had just been selected as one of the 25 Hot Cloud Startups by Startup 50, published by Jeff Vance. The list was published on February 9, 2013 as a prelude to his upcoming story "10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch" for CIO.com. Among ...Mar. 11, 2013 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,207 |
 The US Government, as well as governments around the world, is looking to invest heavily in cloud computing. The cloud promises a lot of efficiencies and cost savings but it also presents a new revolutionary way to approach citizen services.
In his session at the 12th International ...Mar. 11, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 2,634 |
 VMware has dumped its free-standing SlideRocket SaaS collaboration widgetry into the lap of four-year-old San Francisco-based ClearSlide whose cloud-based PowerPoint technology services enterprise salespeople wanting to engage with customers.
The data it collects is supposed to show ...Mar. 11, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,631 |
 Toshiba, the big NAND Flash memory chip maker, and Violin Memory, a maker of arrays using those chips, started cuddling deeper under the bedclothes Monday because of an expanded strategic alliance that’s supposed to give Violin full visibility and control of the supply chain, manufactu...Mar. 11, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,744 |
 If you want to learn iOS 6 development, this is a great place to start. The book spends the first several chapters covering the basics. The author first shows you how to get your system setup and how to install Xcode. He then covers the Xcode interface and the iOS simulator.
After tha...Mar. 11, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,532 |
 Opposition to Dell’s notion of going private on the cheap to the advantage of Dell CEO Michael Dell had its board defending its bow to the idea.
The board said Wednesday that independent directors had reviewed several alternatives over a five-month period including breaking up the co...Mar. 11, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,704 |
 Reports have resurfaced of Google starting a same-day delivery service in San Francisco called Google Shopping Express for local shops to rival Amazon’s ambitions for its Prime business.
Couriers will evidently pick up the parcels.
TechCrunch claims the service will cost somewhere ...Mar. 11, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,603 |
 VMware’s top management vented at Amazon last week during the company’s annual Partner Exchange conference in Las Vegas, telling the audience that they’re all doomed if the corporate world moves to Amazon’s infrastructure.
“We want to own the corporate workload,” CEO Pat Gelsinger sa...Mar. 11, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,398 |
 Google and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility may have to break down and start paying Microsoft royalties on the IP Redmond claims is in Android like the rest of the Android ecosystem.
That is if they want to keep Google Maps alive in Germany.
FOSS Patents reported Thursday that the ...Mar. 10, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,652 |
 After fining Microsoft $733 million for unintentionally flouting an antitrust settlement with regulators, the European Commission took some of the blame.
Antitrust czar Joaquín Almunia said the EU had been “naïve” to let Microsoft monitor its own adherence to the 2009 deal that let i...Mar. 10, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,565 |
 In the last couple of years Hadoop has become synonymous with Big Data. This framework is so vast and popular that Microsoft recently announced, for the first time in its history, that it is going to invest in this large-scale, open-source project as its solution for Big Data.
In his ...Mar. 10, 2013 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 5,259 |
 SYS-CON Events announced today that Axis Communications, the world leader in network video, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 12th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 10–13, 2013, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York.
As the market leader in network video, Axis ...Mar. 9, 2013 01:15 PM EST Reads: 5,045 |
 Pertino, the start-up that figures its software-defined WANs can reinvent cloud-era networking for the masses, has raised $20 million in B series funding led by new investor Jafco Ventures with existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners kicking in.
Th...Mar. 8, 2013 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,967 |
 Boston Limited, which – don’t be fooled – is in England – is peddling the world’s first commercially available ARM-as-a-Service (AaaS), a cloud service offering engineers remote access to preconfigured systems so they can move their server apps – specifically x86 server apps – to ARM. ...Mar. 8, 2013 08:45 AM EST Reads: 1,786 |
 Carl Icahn, the famous “gangsta”-style activist investor, has stepped into the middle of Dell’s $24.4 billion leveraged buy-out, threatening “years of litigation” if he doesn’t get his way.
He has apparently amassed a 6% position in Dell, making him the company’s second-largest outsi...Mar. 8, 2013 08:30 AM EST Reads: 2,056 |
 Sharp, the big Apple supplier fighting for its life, is going to sell a roughly 3% position in itself to Samsung, which is an even bigger Apple supplier and one of Sharp’s biggest rivals.
The price is reportedly about a cheap $112 million, below market value.
Sharp is trying to cla...Mar. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,625 |
 Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch and former Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain have hired criminal defense attorneys.
Bloomberg said Lynch is using Reid Weingarten and Hussain has retained John Keker.
HP said in December that the Justice Department is investigating its claims of being roo...Mar. 7, 2013 06:00 AM EST Reads: 1,751 |
 Amazon Web Services ratcheted up the cloud price war again Tuesday when it cut new EC2 Reserved Instances running Linux/Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server by up to 27% or up to 65% compared to On-Demand instances.
Amazon said in a blog that the new pricin...Mar. 6, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,273 |
 Big Blue put its back into OpenStack Monday at its Pulse conference in Las Vegas, almost a year after lending its name to the open source cloud platform started by Rackspace and NASA – which has abandoned it.
It announced that “its cloud services and software will be based on an open...Mar. 6, 2013 07:00 AM EST Reads: 2,396 |
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