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Google to Drop Sync Support for Blackberry
Can you smell blood in the water? It looks like Google does. In a blog post released today, the company announced that on June 1, it will drop support for Google Sync for BlackBerry. The…
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An OpenStack View on the Critical Mistake Made by Amazon Web Services and The Dilemma Facing VMware
Yesterday I posted the first part of a long interview with the founders of Piston Cloud. In part two, Former NASA Nebula Chief Technical Architect Joshua McKenty, and Rackspace alumni Christopher MacGown trace the roots…
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With Its New Marketplace, Amazon Web Services is Becoming the Next Microsoft
Amazon Web Services Marketplace launched this morning. It’s a comprehensive service that makes the company a full-fledged app seller with the undoubtable potential to move further up the stack and become the next Microsoft.…
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Getting to the Heart of OpenStack: Part 1
Former NASA Nebula Chief Technical Architect Joshua McKenty, and Rackspace alumni Christopher MacGown are two of Piston Cloud‘s original founders. They are also two individuals who helped start OpenStack. Yes, they’re among the smartest you…
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IBM Earnings Reflect On Big Blue’s Storage Strategy
IBM storage revenues decreased 4% in the first quarter. It’s noteworthy for a few reasons. Ir reinforces the results posted by Gartner last month that shows soft demand for external-controller based disk storage. The market…
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Raising Questions About IBM’s Services Approach
IBM posted mixed earnings results today. Its dividend beat street estimates by 13 cents but revenues were flat with services showing limited gains. Big Blue’s Global Technology Services segment saw revenues increase 2% to…
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14 Companies Looking for “Big Data Engineers”
Do a search on Indeed.com for “big data engineer” and you will find 26 listings. That compares to ten job listings for “big data architects.” I became curious about this new job description when…
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Object Storage is Hot at NAB
The scale of data storage in demand by media and entertainment companies is taking new dimensions at this year’s National Association Broadcast annual event in Las Vegas. One thing is clear: RAID Storage is…
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The Cloud is Not the Bubble Incarnate – It’s the New Workflow
You can say what you want about the cloud and its faults. The CIO will say it lacks security. Vendors will tell you that it’s better to have your own private cloud. The linkbait…
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Brocade: VSPEX Gives The Channel More Options
Reliability is the prerequisite for advocates of the private cloud (or the modern data center depending on what you want to call it). It’s in contrast to the public cloud that views latency as…