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Samsung in a Post-Jobs World: the Apple, Android Love Triangle
Apple CEO Steve Jobs departed from Apple as chief executive of the highest valued tech company in the world, and that has been stirring a lot of buzz in the blogosphere throughout the day. It also raised some eyebrows overseas, among reporters, Apple’s competitors and their investors. That list includes Samsung, the largest manufacturer of ...
eXo the Latest to Support Cloud Foundry
eXo, a company that offers what it calls development-as-a-service, or a cloud based IDE, announced today that Cloud Foundry is now a part of the list of PaaS services it supports. Existing ones include CloudBees, Heroku and Red Hat OpenShift, the Linux distributor’s spin on open source PaaS. The company says it offers the first service ...
Gale Tech Optimizes for VMware Clouds
IT resource optimization company Gale Technologies announced a new product today, the Gale Scheduler for VMware Clouds. Scheduler aims to further increase the cost efficiency of virtualization by optimizing the resource allocation to virtual machines. This helps avoid VM sprawl, or the overuse of cloud infrastructure. The offering does a lot of automation by provisioning and ...
Convirture Unveils vCenter for the Open-source Cloud
Open-source cloud management software maker Convirture is trying to bridge the gap in the open cloud space with a new product company founder and chief executive Arsalan Farooq refers to as “VMware vCenter for the rest of us.” The new offering, ConVirt Enterprise Cloud, is due to set to launch this September. Enterprise Cloud is ...
Mobile Workers Slack Off to be More Productive
Smartphone and tablet technology is still maturing, but it has already managed to establish a foothold in the office, and this trend is moving forward fast. Mobile devices have several obvious advantages to workers, including convenient access to company resources, better collaboration and more, but a couple of recent studies also reveal that connected workers, ...
Big Data Travels around the World, Too
Big data analytics is picking up momentum worldwide, and most companies have already started to dig into their stockpile of data in one way or another, for a variety of reasons. Not all are using data analytics products that can, for example, detect the more complex patterns in consumer behavior and brand–perception, but the number ...
Dell Updates EqualLogic Portfolio Amidst HP 3PAR Takeover
Dell today refreshed its storage portfolio with the introduction of two new iSCSI storage arrays. The PS4100 and PS6100 control arrays will be replacing the existing PS4000 and PS6000 models, bringing with them support for 2.5-inch disk drives. The PST4100 is offered in two configurations, one of them being a U2 rack with 24 2.5-inch ...
EnterpriseDB Takes on Oracle with Latest Launch
EnterpriseDB, a developer of Postgres tools, launched the Postgres Enterprise Manager today. Enterprise Manager is a PostgreSQL and Postgres Plus Advanced Server monitoring program that is now available to existing EnterpriseDB clients for download, and as a standalone subscription. Unlike other common monitoring applications, Postgres Enterprise Manager is designed from the ground up for use with ...
Oracle Considers Purchase of HP’s Enterprise Business
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has his eyes on long time rival Hewlett-Packard, or at least its enterprise business. According to an unnamed insider there’s a chance Oracle may acquire HP now that the latter’s stock is falling, saying that this move is “inevitable” if HP’s shares will continue their decline. This news comes in light of an ...
Gluster Adds Hadoop Support to Storage Offering
Gluster, a maker of open-source storage software, announced GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 today. The major addition this update brings is the introduction of Hadoop support, a move that likely made Gluster’s platform suddenly much more interesting for a lot of new clients. “With this new feature, GlusterFS is the first open source, POSIX-compliant file and ...