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CMS Market Hits New Milestones with WordPress and Others
Popular blogging platform WordPress had a couple of big announcements these past few weeks. A counter on WordPress.com, which tallies the number of WordPress installations on their own servers as well as self-hosted blogs, just hit the 50 million mark, an update confirmed by WordPress’ Andrew Nacin, in a tweet. However, this is not the ...
Millennial Media May Be a Good Buy for Apple
Apple’s iAd mobile marketing platform is certainly not the company’s biggest money maker, but the consumer electronics giant is still trying to expand its foothold in a market, which is expected to be worth $2.5 billion by 2010, according to eMarketer. Sources say that Apple, which reportedly used to charge high profile customers some $1 ...
IPv6 Gets Complicated as Two Internets Emerge
World IPv6 Day, a test spanning 24 hours through which over 400 major web companies severed content via IPv6, was held exactly one month ago. It was lead by Yahoo, Google, VMware and other major players to encourage smaller service providers to switch to IPv6, and it seems that this effort proved itself to be ...
This Week in the Cloud: Big Data, Consumer Computing and Privacy
As always, this past week has been packed with significant developments from several companies looking to monetize all the demand surrounding the cloud. Amazon Web Services is currently one of the largest players in this space, and is paying close attention to the rapidly growing big data trend. Around the time Yahoo announced its Hadoop ...
Dell’s Turning into a “Lifestyle Brand” via the Personal Cloud
Dell launched its new “More You” ads this week, presumably to make it clear for the end-user that it can stand up to the criteria set forth by Apple, HP, and the numerous other consumer enterprises out there. Critics claim Dell does not really offer anything special in terms of the capabilities or uniqueness of ...
More Universities Turn to Virtual Desktops; UConn’s New HTML5 Solution
Virtualization solutions maker Ericom announced that the University of Connecticut is piloting its AccessNow flagship offering – a purely HTML5-based virtualization client for VMware View customers. The university has already tested the product successfully, and will roll out AccessNow to its students and faculty in the coming months. Ericom AccessNow for VMware View runs wholly ...
The Private Cloud Sees Big Growth, Drives New Services
A new report released by cloud host StratoGen says that the second quarter has seen a whopping 82 percent growth in private cloud deployments. The company pointed towards the much wider trend of cloud adoption, noting that despite of some outages in the past few months (such as the Google and Amazon Web Services debacles), ...
HP TouchPad Under the Hood: Plans for an Improved Version
Now that Hewlett-Packard released its webOS-powered TouchPad tablet, research firm IHS iSuppli broke down the device to individual components to put on estimate on what kind of margins HP will be making of the new device. The TouchPad comes with a 9.7-inch LF display that iSuppli believes to be similar or identical to the one ...
Big Data and Hadoop Get Bigger, Amazon Web Services Slash Prices
Big data is getting bigger, and Hadoop is becoming the tool that will allow companies to make full use of their growing amounts of data, says Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capita. Fenton is a partner at the venture capital firm which owns the majority stake of HortonWorks, a startup that separated from Yahoo’s Hadoop dev ...
This Week in the Cloud: Hortonworks, Storage and IT Consumerization
This past week in the cloud featured a handful of updates from the biggest segments in the industry, first of all from the open-source segment. Yahoo spun off their Hadoop business, launching Hortonworks. The new branch, backed by Benchmark capital, is taking on the enterprise sector, joining companies like Cloudera in offering their own renditions ...