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Apple Getting Consumer Savvy with iPhone 5, 4S Pricing and Release Dates?
Based on some recent reports, Apple will begin making the next version of the iPhone in August. These support some previous rumors, though they don’t offer much more in details. The note, written by Morgan analyst Katy Huberty, says the device will indeed begin production in that time frame and will “ramp aggressively” into Q4. ...
Travel, Mobile Office Lead Business Tablet Apps for iPad, Android
The iTunes App Store and the Android Marketplace are flooded with a constant stream of apps from developers, and as the industry evolves, this trend is becoming more and more evident by the day. It’s also expanding into new territories with the introduction of new devices, and the tablet-abundant office is one of them. We’ve ...
Open-Source, Virtualization Lead Recent Cloud Trends
The past week in the cloud featured updates encompassing several of the hottest trends cooking in IT right now, and recent developments in open-source cloud kicks off our recap. OpenStack, the Rackspace cloud OS platform that managed to gain itself over 50 partners to date, welcomed the latest member who joined the initiative. Web host ...
HP Expanding Storage Business from Tape and Global Angles
Hewlett-Packard, currently one of the largest player in the storage industry, is constantly venturing into ways to further strengthen its growth in this field. The most recent update is an EOM agreement with Quantum, a maker of tape storage solutions. HP will now be manufacturing its tape library based on Quantum’s security-conscious Scalar i6000 product. ...
Nokia Employees Leak New Windows Phone 7 Handset
Talk of a Windows Phone 7-powered Nokia device have been going on for a while, ever since the phone maker’s $2 billion agreement with Microsoft was announced, and it would appear that now the first handset is finally here. Codenamed Sea Ray, the N9-based device was previewed to employees by CEO Stephen Elop. Elop asked ...
Cybersecurity Attack not a Threat but Statistical Certainty
In today’s uncertain world, there’s no telling when you’ll get hacked, or how bad of a breach it will be. Whether you’re a gamer on Sony’s PlayStation Network, a mobile user, a bank or a cloud service provider, security is a top priority right now. And people are finally starting to realize it. On behalf ...
VMware’s Big Plans Lead to Major Hypervisor Launch
On July 12, virtualization giant VMware is expected to announce a couple of major hypervisor launches. More about that later, but until then, though, the company is putting its focus on Cloud Foundry among other things. The PaaS offering is VMware’s first serious open-source initiative, built by former Google engineers Derek Collison and Mark Lucovsky. ...
Hewlett-Packard Grows in the Area that Counts: Storage
Hewlett-Packard has launched the enhanced HP P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array storage array, extending its offerings in a key area for its future product roll out. It specifically targets SMBs, and offers support for VMware vStorageAPIs for Array Integration (VAAI) and HP Insight Control Storage Module Manager for VMware vCenter Server, among other things. “SMBs ...
Sybase Strides Forward as SAP Expands Services Strategy
SAP has promised its investors it will greatly increase its revenues in the near future, and the German software maker is working hard to accomplish that goal. For that, it needs the right people to lead this effort, and Sybase – one of the companies it has recently acquired — is the latest highlight in ...
Fusion-io Powers Big Data Research, Sees Promising Financial Gains
Storage acceleration tech maker Fusion-io announced at the International Supercomputing Conference that its ioMemory technology is being utilized to accomplish performance improvements in MySQL database queries for research carried out by the Protein Data Bank (PDB.) PDB is a huge repository of three-dimensional structures of large molecules and nucleic acids, powered by research conducted at ...