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QLogic Offers Extended Warranty for 10GB Adapters
Networking gear vendor QLogic extended the five-year warranty available with its Fibre Channel adapter to its 10Gb Ethernet adapters – specifically the QLogic-branded 3200 Series Intelligent Ethernet adapters and 8200 Series converged networking adapters (CANs). The company said this last part of the extended warranty is “unmatched in the industry. “QLogic is able to offer a more ...
Intel Slashes Outlook Due to Thailand Disaster
The flooding in Thailand has led to a decline in output for the local hard-drive manufacturing industry, which has become a sore spot for hardware manufacturers considering the plants in the nation ship the majority of the products on the market. Chipmakers have taken a direct hit, and Intel is clearly no exception. Today the ...
VMware’s Vision of the Social Enterprise: it’s All Mobile
VMware has attended a couple of events lately where company officials shed some light about the way they see how the cloud, and how user virtualization ties in to the social enterprise today, as well as discussing the impact these factors will make in the future. Tim Young, VMware’s vice president of social enterprise who joined the ...
Top iPad, Android Business Apps: Analytics on-the-go with Woopra
The featured app in this week’s list is the newly launched Woopra, an analytics app for the iPad and iPhone that compresses a Google Analytics-like service into a tablet-optimized view with a lot of graphical additions to add some extra appeal. iPad Woopra Woopra mixes together on-the-go analytics with rich visualization, an element that can ...
This Week in Cloud: Services, Analytics in the Spotlight
This week it’s all about cloud services, and an interesting push by IBM to get into the analytics world. The first two developments pertain to the accelerating open-source trend within the as-a-service space, where this approach allows vendors to offer significant advantages over closed alternatives in some cases. This week OpenLogic said it has integrated ...
Red Hat Introduces Open-Source Big Data Storage Solution
Red Hat further clarifies their intentions behind its acquisition of open storage management firm Gluster with the launch of the Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, a big data file system based on open-source technology. The offering, based on the GlusterFS 3.2 platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, is designed for companies that analyze large ...
Custom App Optimization with New Relic’s Latest Integration
Cloud-based app performance monitoring service New Relic has been integrated into CloudSwing, an open-source PaaS by OpenLogic. CloudSwing is based on the concept of allowing the user to do a lot of customization in order to optimize how their apps are running in the cloud, and entered general availability in September. OpenLogic says it’s doubled ...
IBM’s Futuristic Ideas for High-Performance Computing
IBM is introducing Watson to the big data world. The supercomputer includes a lot of components developed by the company – and some of which have been proved to be quite useful for IBM customers in the medical industry looking to extract value from their data. The latest step IBM has taken is introducing its ...
Dell Expands Salesforce Integration with Service Cloud
Dell has extended its CRM portfolio, the Dell Cloud Business Applications (DCBA) suite, by adding the Salesforce Service Cloud customer interaction service to line-up. This update extends the capacity already provided by the existing apps, including Sales Cloud, which Dell already supported. “Dell Integrated CRM with Salesforce Service Cloud helps small and medium businesses not ...
VMware Wins Public Contract as it Expands Ecosystem
VMware has had a busy year in 2011, and their penchant for advancement will most likely be extended as we move closer to 2012. EMC’s virtualization subsidiary has been working on establishing new partners and monetizing that community, and one of its most recent gains is a deal to virtualize Richland School District Two. The ...