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RNC and Partners Create a “Convention without walls” on YouTube
Ahead of the Republican Party’s Tampa convention on the 27th, organizers are busy putting together a digital “convention without walls” on YouTube with the help of social tools and WiFi. The RNC partnered up with Google, Microsoft and Facebook in order to piece together an entire list of features. Google is the “social platform and ...
Engine Yard Adds Node.js Support
Engine Yard is one of the most widely used developer-oriented PaaS solutions out there, but up until now it could only run Rails and PHP. In the next 30 days the platform will be receiving a big boost with the addition of support for Node.js, an up-and-coming server-side language. Engine Yard already has a very ...
VMworld 2012: Big Expectations in a Booming Virtualized World
VMworld 2012 is going down this month from the 26th to the 30th in San Francisco. VMware itself hasn’t announced any major updates in a while, so it’s safe to assume the company is saving a few things for the event, but that didn’t stop partners from sending out a few memos to the press. ...
NetApp’s Big Flash Push: New Product, Huge Ecosystem Update
A couple days ago with Big Blue announced its first major commitment to flash with the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems, I said that the deal is going to have a big impact on the storage market. Other vendors will want to get their feet wet at some point if they don’t intend on falling behind ...
sqrrl Raises $2M for Big Data Security System
sqrrl just received $2 million in seed funding from Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners. Its technology is still in the development stage, but when it officially launches, enterprises will be able to encrypt data in small portions, rather than having to hide an entire file. sqrrl is compromised mainly of NSA veterans, including co-founders Oren Falkowitz, CEO, ...
Nirvanix Lands Cloud Deal with Fox
Fox Networks Group, the subsidiary in charge of operations for the Fox Entertainment Group, chose cloud storage startup Nirvanix to power a big portion of its internal IT. The media giant will use Nirvanix’s Cloud Storage Network for a couple of things, including as the underlying infrastructure for a more modernized collaboration service that is ...
Looking Back at VMworld 2011: Did the Vision of Security and Flash Come True?
VMworld 2012 is just a week away, and now is a good opportunity to reflect on what came out of the gathering – one of the largest annual conferences in IT – last year. Security was a big deal at VMworld 2011. Last year a long string of successful attacks on enterprises and government agencies ...
How One Massive School District Gets Efficient with EMC
EMC’s VNX unified storage and DataDomain deduplication technology are being used by The Toronto District School Board, the fourth largest district in North America, to achieve greater operational efficiency. TDSB supports 6,000 schools that are compromised by 250,000 students and 40,000 staff. Consultants from EMC’s Global Services business provided the “skills support and knowledge transfer” ...
This Week in Big Data: Symantec’s Hadoop Play, the Presidential Race and More
There were a few big updates coming out of the big data ecosystem this week. Symantec upped its investment in analytics by launching an add-on for its Cluster File System that works with HortonWorks’ Hadoop distribution. The result is a product called Symantec Enterprise Solution for Hadoop, which is free for existing customers and can ...
The Public and the Personal Cloud in the Spotlight This Week
VMworld 2012 is coming later this month, and VMware is already starting to up its cloud play to give customers plenty to talk about ahead of the gathering. This week the virtualization firm unveiled a very reasonable trial version of its vCloud management platform. For a few cents an hour prospective users can get their ...