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Huawei Symantec (HS), a joint venture between Chinese storage and networking equipment manufacturer Huawei and software giant Symantec, announced the latest addition to its product portfolio: the OceanSpace Dorado S2100. The all-flash array is probably one of the first ever developed by …
Apple Sees Record Earnings, Lion Out Tomorrow
Apple held its earnings call today, and reported stellar results for its third quarter. The company has seen an 82 percent increase in revenue compared to last year’s $15.7 billion: it generated $28.57 billion, a record breaking number that easily surpassed analysts’ …
Google News Taps Gamification to Enhance Social Side
Gamification, the implementation of a certain game-like mechanisms to improve business, is a much wider trend than one would think. It has proven to be effective for many companies including startups that are based their offering wholly on this concept, and Google …
IBM Breaks Wall Street Expectations for Q2
IBM held its earnings call today, topping analysts’ average expectations at $25.4 billion in revenue. The tech industry veteran reported 12 percent year-over-year growth up to $26.7 billion in revenue, and also raised its full-year earnings forecast to at least $13.25 a …
Intel Feels the Burn as Mobile and Cloud Bite into PC Sales
Smartphones, tablets and countless cloud services that eliminate the need to store or view data from one particular device are biting into PC sales, and every company down the supply chain seems to be feeling the effects. Intel is no exception: stocks …
Survey: VMware Holds Lead in Virtualization. Citrix, Microsoft Trail Behind
A new study called the V-Index, commissioned by virtualization management vendor Veeam and carried out by research firm Vanson Bourne, provides a look into the split-up of the virtualization market. It found that 58 percent of companies that deployed x86 virtualization software, …
How the Pentagon Hack May have been a Result of an E-mail Scam
Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III admitted in a Cybersecurity keynote last week that hackers managed to steal over 24,000 Pentagon files, most likely from a defense contractor. He did not disclose a lot of details about the incident, but hinted …
SeaMicro Introduces More Eco-friendly Servers with Latest Launch
SeaMicro, a four year old start-up that develops servers designed for web companies that need to perform smaller loads for reduced power costs, released the third generation of its offering. The update comes just a few months after the previous version was …
This Week in the Cloud: From vSphere 5.0 to Dropbox
This week featured several major developments from the enterprise to the consumer cloud, first and foremost the announcement that VMware vSphere 5.0 will be available in late August. The cloud OS features several improvements to existing APIs, and the addition of a …
Android is Good Business for Google, and Oracle Too
Android has grown from being the underdog of the smartphone industry to the number one mobile platform in terms of market share, and it seems Google has managed to maintain this momentum. This week several examples of that surfaced, starting with the …