Red Hat Takes on VMware with oVirt
Red Had is working on something big in an attempt to snatch some market share from VMware, the EMC subsidiary currently sitting on the throne of the virtualization space. The Linux distributor teamed up…
Dell, Intel Show Some Homegrown Love
Intel and Dell will be setting up a hybrid supercomputer dubbed “Stampede” for the University of Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Stampede is a 10-petaflop powerhouse that will be deployed in January 2013 and…
Microsoft Launches Bing Deals, Competes with Google, Amazon
Microsoft is stepping up its competition with Google over the search market with the launch of Bing Deals, a new feature that allows users to browse through deals aggregated from the more popular services,…
This Week in the Cloud: Open-Source, Personal Cloud
A lot has been going on in the cloud this week, and two areas in particular, open-source and personal cloud storage, were the main highlights. First of all, Diablo – the latest and first…
SAP Sybase Tops the Tablet List for iPad, Android Business Apps
This week’s tablet biz apps roundup brings you five of our best picks, and Sybase Mobile Sales & Workflow by SAP is the most noteworthy. The iPad SAP CRM client is a part of…
Stealthy Startup Raises Funding, Talks of Upcoming Offering
New York-based stealth startup Dashlane secured an impressive $5 million in a first round of funding. VC firms Rho Ventures and FirstMark Capital co-led the financing, and execs from both companies are joining Dashlane’s board of…
Teradata Ups Security with Latest Version Release
Analytics veteran Teradata revealed Teradata Database 14 today. The latest version of its offerings features a number of major new additions, including security enhancements, broader supports for data formats and more. Scott Gnau, president…
The Mobile User’s Privacy vs. Law Enforcement, Users Win in California
Smartphones and tablets are gradually making their way towards gaining a significant place in every user’s personal cloud, from utility apps to playing a role in state-wide riots, and are subsequently storing more and…
EMC Lands UK Government Contract
Storage solutions maker EMC announced today that the British Isle of Man Government’s Information Systems Division chose its offerings to power an “IT transformation initiative” stretching the full length of the nation’s administration Using flash,…
It’s Not Utopia without the Web
It would seem that the boundaries between these four have faded significantly, according to the new 2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report. The study confirms that a sizable chunk of students and young professionals…