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Enterprise Migration to the Cloud Still Has a Long Way to Go
The public cloud is picking up momentum, but many large enterprises are still hesitant about jumping aboard the public “as-a-service” bandwagon. Dan Lamorena, a director for Symantec’s storage and availability management group, explained, “You may not see the mass adoption of the cloud [in large enterprises] for five, ten or even fifteen years. Many organizations won’t change ...
Gartner Raises 2012 Cloud Spending Forecast
Citing a “stabilized” outlook, research firm Gartner expects enterprises to spend 3 percent more on IT, a slight increase from the 2.5 percent growth it noted in a report published earlier this year. Gartner estimates that $3.6 trillion dollars will be spent on IT in 2012. Spending on IT is expected to grow 2.3 percent to $864 ...
Azure Outage Caused by Networking Glitch, GM Says
Microsoft is one of the latest companies trying to clean up reputation damage inflicted by an outage of its cloud services. Mike Neil, the general manager in charge of Microsoft’s Windows Azure, wrote a blog post explaining the reason for the service interruption that hit customers in Western Europe last week. The blackout happened on July 26 ...
appMobi Launches Free HTML5 Packaging Service
appMobi announced openBuild this week, a free cloud service that makes it easier for HTML5 developers to optimize their apps for all the different app stores out there. While HTML5 may be able to run both iOS and Android, actually deploying an app written in the language in the App Store or Google Play, not ...
Hewlett-Packard Goes All-Flash with 3PAR
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard announced a new commitment to SSD storage with a new 3PAR configuration, P10000. This variation of the single tier storage array runs on SSDs, and as a result offers several advantages including less overhead than its disk-based sibling – up to 80 percent reduced cost per kilowatt according to the company. More ...
Overdue SAP Trial Invites Developers to Play in their Ecosystem
Business intelligence kingpin SAP is looking to create a mobile ecosystem, and this week the company announced a new initiative that aims to incentivize developers who might be interesting in joining the program. SAP has a huge, global clientele that could benefit from both business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications. But the company wants to let third ...
Mobile Big in Travel, and Marketers Got It (Mostly) Right
Mobile ad network operator Millennial Media released its latest SMART report, outlining advertising trends in the travel industry – one of the fastest growing verticals in this space. The travel industry is currently the third biggest spender on Millennial’s network behind telecommunications and finance, and is also holding on to the third spot in the ...
The Olympics: Spam and Malware All Bigger Threats Than Before
Cybersecurity is one additional topic that the architects of the 2012 London Olympics had to take into consideration, now that hackers are getting more and more creativity–and increasingly aggressive–with their attacks. The Olympic Games will attract a lot of eyeballs, but hackers have already started exploiting this international interest last month. Spammers jumped on the ...
Oracle Adds More Virtualization to Portfolio with Xsigo Buy
Database giant Oracle acquired Xsigio today for an undisclosed amount. The firm offers software-defined networking solutions that will be coupled with Oracle VM, according to a release that went out this morning. Xsigo’s product line-up covers both hardware and software, but it’s the latter category that Oracle is more interested in. The company’s technology visualizes ...
QLogic Disappoints with Q1 Results, Decline Reflects Market Trends
Data center networking equipment maker QLogic reported weaker than expected results for the first quarter of the 2013 fiscal year, falling short of analysts’ expectation and triggering a dramatic decline in the company’s stock. The vendor earned a net income of $18.4 million in the first quarter or 19 cents per share, 43 percent less ...