When mobile phones and tablets become standard members of society, it’s no longer surprising to witness how these gadgets and technology alter the way we perform our tasks, and predominantly, the way we live our daily lives. One of the hottest items in the zone today is mobile payments. The idea is fairly new to ...

Big data is fast becoming the heartbeat of social enterprise. With its usefulness in analyzing patterns of behavior of customers through responses in online ads, common keyword searches in search engines and more, whoever acquires the magic of information management has the bigger advantage. The several ambiguities surrounding big data cause confusion. A good example of this ...

VMware’s launch of vSphere 5 shook the industry this week, and the sheer magnitude worries competitors. Giving importance to cloud computing and virtualization of small-to-medium sized businesses, the latest in vSphere technology becomes a milestone of information infrastructure. This move makes it more apparent that VMware is not giving up its crown anytime soon. VMware’s ...

As the competition continues to chase after VMware’s industry leadership, the company ensures that they will give their opponents a good, tough fight. Citrix is one of the those organizations which are closing the gap, proclaiming that they are also in it to win it, by way of the $200 million Cloud.com acquisition to feed ...

The open-stack cloud is riding a train that it hopes to be success-bound. With cloud computing altering the course of the corporate landscape, with open source standards as the anchor of these changes, businesses are now looking at potent affiliates to get parts of the job done. One of the many organizations betting on the open stack ...

When you talk about revolutionizing IT economics, cloud storage solutions will always be the centrifugal force in the discussion. With mounting demand, virtualizing cloud storage solutions becomes a tight race between companies who want to get ahead of the competition. Accompanied by a few other factors, this is an important revelation indicating the direction in ...

Hacking is a touchy topic inside and out of tech society. But it comes with certainty that there will always be cases of data exposure, breaches and cyber-attacks. As the hacking feast continues, the casualties like Sony PlayStation Network try to recover from the pitfalls of multiple attacks and a never-ending summer of hacker dominance. ...

When biggies like Facebook start turning their head onto the media business direction, you realize that this is potentially lucrative. And it is.  The shift towards the cloud makes this industry all the more enthralling. And Apple’s jumping all over this.  The news of iCloud saving Hollywood has been receiving good attention–an indication that the ...

With hackers at large, nothing seems to be safe… Not in the cloud, nor the mobile space. At least, this is what the current state suggests, especially when we talk of a cloud where everything happens online.  Cloud migration and booming demand for mobile apps intensify the campaign to build up security arsenals to prevent ...

Open source is one of the frontiers of the cloud system. This is why organizations are gambling on the potential of the open source cloud. We’ve already seen recent developments with the Hadoop spin-off, and ongoing developments within the OpenStack initiative. Now, a leading provider of PostgreSQL-based products, EnterpriseDB, joins the parade as they recently ...