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QLogic Grows InfiniBand Reach, Teams with NNS
QLogic has landed a pretty big deal, entering into a contract with the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to provide its 12000 Series switches and 7300 Series adapters for an agency’s supercomputer deployment. Known as the Tri-Laboratory Linux Capacity Cluster 2, the massive system will be deployed across s a number of the ...
Yet Another Cisco Exec Jumps Aboard Juniper’s Bandwagon
Christopher Hoff, former director of the Security Technology Business Unit of Cisco’s cloud and virtualization solutions business, is the latest executive to leave the company in favor of Juniper Networks. His new position has not been disclosed, but he will be starting on July 5. He himself confirmed this in a blog post, detailing some ...
Suzanne Vega at the CREATE Conference
Singer Suzanne Vega spoke at this year’s CREATE gathering, and discussed creativity, copyrights and marketing today as they relate to the music industry. Vega kicked off her keynote with a little background info on herself and her family, amd mentioned that when she first began playing the guitar in her childhood she perceived it as ...
Global Plans for Nokia, WP7. Can They Win Europe before the US?
Victor Saeijs, Nokia’s Europe vice president announced that the phonemaker will debut Windows Phone 7-powered handsets in six European markets: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and the UK. The U.S and Finland were not included in the list of initial markets the new devices will hit. “Knowing Nokia, there’s no doubt that once the ...
HP and Toshiba Team Up for Smart Community Offerings
Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba announced a joint initiative focused on developing a cloud offerings line-up for “smart community” businesses. The two companies will offer social & collaborative for the energy conservation, transportation, telecommunications and medical sectors, among others. Toshiba in particular has been looking to monetize this segment before its agreement with HP, and reportedly has ...
Microsoft Grows App Ecosystem with Kinect SDK, Evernote
Microsoft is looking to gain developers to create apps for its platforms, namely Kinect and Windows Phone 7. Kinect already has a large developer base but they didn’t have an official SDK to legitimize the support – until now. The software maker released a beta Kinect software developer kit for Windows. The SDK was announced ...
iOS, Android App Development Trends: Search, Gaming Funds
The app development scene is not lacking in activity, in light of the growing demand around the mobile sector, personal cloud and social enterprise trends. Many reports by research firms including IDC predict that billions of connected devices will be used worldwide in the foreseeable future – a huge chunk of which will be smartphones ...
Oracle Court Drama Continues: Google and HP Fire Back
Oracle has a very effective legal department, considering all the lawsuits it has been involved with at various points in time, and the latest two developments will force the company to make good use of it. The first update comes from the ongoing Google case, in which Oracle sued the internet giant for alleged infringements ...
4G Races Pushes Ahead, T-Mobile Gains in 41 Cities
Today T-Mobile announced it has doubled the speed of its 4G HSPA+ networks in an additional 41 cities, includingSalt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego and Virginia Beach. Back at the CES 2010, the carrier promised it will double speeds for its 4G users from 21Mbps to 42 Mbps, saying that it expects to the ...
Big Data Trends: From SMBs to the Semantic Web
Big data has become a buzzword in the enterprise space, and it looks like the same is happening among midsized companies. While these get much less quantities of data, they can analyze and gain insight from compared to the enterprise, a new study of over than 3,000 chief information officers by IBM found that business ...