Cloud computing is the next big thing in tech sphere, and this place is so enchanting everyone wants to have a taste of it, both critics and supporters alike.  Cloud adoption trends are now widespread, with its industry boundaries becoming more vivid, sieving out the pretenders and contenders of cloud storage. But, the recent Amazon crash ...

The hunt for the best storage service provider is on, and competition is arguably at its most rigid, especially when looking at pretenders versus the real contenders.  With mounting demand comes bombarding arguments and opinions about security and service levels of storage technologies.  These, combined the new hotness in storage, Fusion-io, became a magnet for ...

With the tablet and mobile industries being the two largest and busiest ports of the tech industry today, something as simple as a color may change the course of the game. A good example is the mounting excitement as Apple decides to ship white iPhone in the United States following the success of white iPads, with a 60-65% ...

With Yahoo’s search ship sinking rapidly, the company decides to take on another route and intends to rebuild itself as a media company. The company’s strong will to get back into the ballgame also prompted Yahoo to shell out $20 to $30 million and acquire IntoNow, a Palo Alto-based start-up. The company, which had launched ...

Opportunities within the healthcare sector have been an excellent exploration grounds for Big Data and cloud enthusiasts. Two titans, Dell and VMware, joined forces for a heathcare initiative, and to save more lives. The partnership aims to bring in more secure and easy access to patient information, anywhere, at any time. Dell’s Mobile Clinical Computing ...

The word backup always feels secondary; it’s not something many consumers thing about until their data’s gone missing. But, when you dive deep into information technology,  you realize that this word holds a colossal magnitude all its own. Today, BackupHeroes launched BackupHeroes.com—a social network that pays tribute to backup professionals that are responsible for organizational ...

Customers nowadays look for a product that bears multi-dimensional features and efficiency. Perhaps the new partnership between Quantum and NetApp can very well respond to this clamor.  Quantum, being a leader of the backup, recovery and archive market, now enables NetApp to resell Quantum’s StorNext. The fusion of StorNext software and NetApp disk-based products are lethal ...

Cisco put on quite a show with its Flip shutdown, and analysts gave it a mixed rating. The decision to close Flip was seen by many as a move to show everyone that Cisco is serious in its restructuring plan, primarily to save the organization from the bad luck of quarterly financial losses. But, this ...

More than 10,000 votes were casted. 100 young developers. Raw ideas. One winner—and it came from the Land Down Under. The World Bank’s “Apps for Development” competition concluded today, the victors celebrating with a bang. Australia’s StatPlanet World Bank, crafted by the 30-year old Frank van Capelle, an extremely powerful tool in harnessing real-time country ...

Business acceleration, leveraging existing IT investments and a virtualized infrastructure—these are the three cornerstones enveloping the tech community of today. Companies are on a race to provide the many firsts, and be able to set standards upfront. Known for obstinately surprising everyone from an innovation standpoint, VMware now achieves an important milestone within the cloud ...