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Fusion-io’s New Market – Digital Arts
Storage acceleration solutions maker Fusion-io is attempting to branch out, and the latest area the company is venturing into is digital arts. Fusion teamed-up NVIDIA, Thinkbox Software and Tweak Software to demonstrate how professional graphic design software, which has a tendency of being slow and clunky even on up-to-date machines, can run with ioMemory. The ...
The New Age of Services: Liquidware, NetApp Virtualize Solutions
Liquidware Labs, a VDI solutions provider that developed the Stratusphere and ProfileUnity offerings, has a new service to help customers make the most out of their virtual desktop deployments. In partnership with NetApp, the company is now offering a new consulting service to the latter’s customers and partners that is designed to help companies optimize their ...
Firing Back Against Police, AntiSec Unleashes 10GB of Leaked Law Enforcement Data
The recent overflow of incidents in the cybersecurity front managed to draw a lot of media attention to the topic, as well as law enforcement agencies going after the hackers. Members of Anonymous and the now disbanded Lulz Security (that has spun off to stir the AntiSec movement) have been the main targets of this ...
“Spam King” Faces Federal Allegations Over Facebook Scam
Sanford Wallace, the spammer whose activities have been dated back all the way to the 90’s, is facing criminal charges for the first time in two decades. He’s accused of hacking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages throughout 2008 and 2009 as a part of a PPC scam. Wallace turned himself in ...
Infineta Gains Infrastructure Insight with New Board Member
Infineta, a San-Jose firm that makes hyper-scale WAN optimization systems, announced today the latest member of its board of directors. Ashok Krishnamurthi is joining the company, a 20-year tech industry vet who is the co-founder and chairman of I/O virtualization solutions provider Xsigo Systems. Prior to his work with Xsigo, Krishnamurthi was the vice president ...
SAP: Critical Security Patch Coming this Week
SAP, a Frankfurt-based maker of business software, will release a patch on August 9 to address a potentially hazardous security flaw originally picked up by Alexander Polyakov, CTO of security firm ERPScan and one of the attendees of last week’s Black Hat Cybersecurity forum in Las Vegas. Polyakov said he could identify systems exposed to ...
Yahoo Loses Hadoop Leader; Data Chief Moves to Battery Ventures
Todd Papaioannou, the VP and chief cloud architect at Yahoo who was responsible for the cloud and Hadoop teams working at the internet company, resigned to take on the role of entrepreneur in residence at Battery Ventures. Papaioannou only joined Yahoo last year, and explained in a chat with GigaOM that the reason he left ...
PushBI Tops Business Apps for iPad, Android Tablets this Week
This week we’ve rounded up five of the best iPad and Honeycomb business apps. Tablets are of increasing importance as Android seeks to dominate this sector too. With the latest Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 release, Android’s wish is on its way to becoming true. The mobile workforce is hungry for apps that free them from ...
Cloud Week in Review: iCloud for Developers, VMware License Update
There were a few major updates this week in the cloud space, starting with VMware’s vSphere 5 licensing change. When the fifth version of the currently dominant hypervisor was launched, the company sought to cash in the long expected software by implementing a licensing model based on processors, which ended up being costlier to customers ...
Bitcoin Hackathon in Finland Sept 2-4 Seeking Software Engineers
The Bitcoin Hackathon conference will be held in Aalto Venture Garage, Betonimiehenkuja 3, Espoo, Finland on September 2-4. The free 2-day event is the latest evidence of the tech and startup boom the Nordic region has been going through in recent times, especially now in light of Nokia’s massive layoffs and a growing pool of ...