Oracle VM Version 3.0 Takes on VMware
Database giant Oracle launched the third version of Oracle VM this week, its hypervisor offering which it hopes will help it gain a foothold in this space by luring in VMware customers. Monica Kumar, senior…
EMC to Buy Back $2BN of Its Own Stock
Storage giant EMC said in a 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans on buying back $2 billion worth of shares in fiscal year 2011. This expands its existing plan…
App Stores Boost Revenue, Social Enterprise
The app ecosystems supporting Android and iOS, the two most prominent mobile operating systems that account for the vast majority of today’s market share, have ballooned to include hundreds of thousands of apps each…
OpenStack Training Woos Developers as Open Cloud Gains Traction
Cloud host Rackspace will start offering training courses for OpenStack, delivered by the Rackspace Cloud Builders, the company’s core development team responsible for the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform and the Rackspace Cloud. OpenStack is…
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.…
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,…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…