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VMware Strengthens Offerings with Growing Partner Base
VMware, EMC’s virtualization subsidiary, is taking several approaches to becoming even more established, as well as providing newer offerings that are more attractive to customers, one of them being the expansion of its partner base and 3rd party support for its products. Today data security firm IdentityLogix announced the SpyLogix for VMware module for its security intelligence ...
Nintendo Seeing Positive 3DS Sales after Slow Year
Japanese gaming company Nintendo managed to ship a sizable number of its 3DS three-dimensional mobile gaming consoles last week despite disappointing results throughout the past few quarters. Research firm Enterbrain said that the company sold 214,821 3DS units in Japan last week. This is the highest number of units shipped since the last week of ...
Pay for Parking with Your Smartphone in New York City
Over the next few months, New York City will place “smart meters” in 300 locations as a part of an experiment to test a pay-by-phone parking system. The one-year pilot program will feature tech that is already used in several other cities including Washington and Atlanta, which is meant to offer more flexibility than the ...
Linux: After 20 Years, Spurs Cloud/Social Media Innovation
Open-source is becoming a huge trend in the cloud and beyond, just as one of the original proponents of open-source turns 20. Linux has grown immensely since it was first conceived two decades ago, an essential era that was depicted in an infographic the organization recently released. The figures are all based on a poll conducted ...
Amazon Bats Eyes at Gov’t Sector with New Cloud Services
Today Amazon made an announcement that placed it two steps of the competition: it unveiled GovCloud, what is essentially an ultra secure version of six Amazon Web Services designed for the use of government agencies: Elastic Compute Cloud, Simple Storage Service, Elastic Block Store, Virtual Private Cloud, Identity and Access Management, and CloudWatch. That number ...
VMware Announces Expanded Cloud Foundry Support
Virtualization giant VMware announced that it has expanded support for Cloud Foundry, its open-source PaaS offering. As a part of a new partnership with Dell, the latter’s services business will integrate the beta platform-as-a-service solution with Ubuntu Linux, according to VMware VP Jerry Chen. enStratus Networks, a developer of cloud management platforms, also said it ...
Lawsuit Implicates Cisco in Chinese Human Rights Violations, Censorship
Networking giant Cisco has been sued by Daniel Ward of law firm Ward & Ward on the behalf of Du Daobin, Zhou Yuanzhi, Liu Xianbin, and ten other Chinese political prisoners who requested to remain anonymous for fear of persecution. The lawsuit was filed with the US District Court in Maryland, and claims that Cisco technology ...
Pageonce Scores 5M Users Amidst Mobile Finance Competition
Pageonce, the operator of Pageonce Money & Bills, a mobile service that lets users manage their bank accounts from a number of mobile platforms, has reached a major milestone, with a reported five million registered users. The company says that adds up to five percent of the total number of smartphone holders in the U.S, ...
Joyent Opens up SmartOS in the Cloud
Cloud software developer Joyent announced that its SmartOS platform, which was once only a component of its SmartDataCenter and public cloud offerings, is now available under an open-source license. Joyent CTO Jason Hoffmann refered to the server platform as the ““only modern OS” developed in the past decade during an interview with GigaOM. “Joyent SmartOS is ...
Nutanix Debuts Rounded-Out VMware Server
Startup Nutanix announced its first product, a virtualized server it named Complete Cluster. The 2U or 3.5 inch high VMware-based box comes equipped with four x86 nodes, each containing eight 8 Intel Xeon processors that add up to a combined 48 cores and 192GB, or 768GB RAM. Complete Cluster offers 20TB worth of Seagate SATA hard ...