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Jumping straight into business, Cloud.com recently released the latest version of its open source multi-tenant IaaS platform, CloudStack 2.2, which features over 100 new features. Among these is hypervisor support for VMware vSphere and CloudBridge, which enables the integration of CloudStack-based applications …
Cloud Round-up: New Products, More Scale
This week has brought with it quite a bit of updates from every corner of the cloud, including a few new products. For example, Couchbase launched its first product a couple days ago. Couchbase is a NoSQL company formed after the merger of …
iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps: the Best of the Week
This week’s tablet business apps round-up comes with an impressive list of business-oriented apps, both for the iPad and Android tablets. As tablets gain more and more traction among consumers, the technology also gains momentum in the (virtual) office, and the following …
The Daily Deal Affect: Can Groupon Sustain the Pressure Bubble?
Daily deal behemoth Groupon may be valued between $15BN and $25 in an initial public offering, but the downside of this inflated figure is felt across the entire tech scene, as more bubble talk is spurred, and hyperlocal marketing trends continue to …
The New York Times Hits Paywall, and iTunes
The New York Times is introducing digital subscriptions to the mix, seeking new-age distribution methods for its age-old publication. The newspaper also hopped aboard Steve Jobs’ iTunes subscription plan as its first major partner, which will cost 30 percent of its revenues …
Android Beats Apple in Speed (and Distribution)
A fresh study by web optimization company Blaze suggests that mobile browsing on Android is faster than on iOS devices – much faster, in fact, when it comes to loading web page. Blaze analyzed 45,000 page load times of Fortune 1000 companies’ …
SMB Growth & The Cloud: Hardware Purchases to Increase this Year
According to a new survey from American Express and CFO Research Services, the majority of CFOs at SMBs are looking for growth opportunities in the next two years. And hardware and cloud offerings were among the most prominent points of interest. Starting …
YouTube is Looking for Quality Content, and Will to Pay for it
YouTube has been trying to get over its low resolution piano-playing cats for quite a while, and now we’ve learned of a couple new strides the Google-owned network has done to better preserve its hold of the market. According to some rumors …
Gluster Joins the OpenStack Club
Open-source is one of the biggest trends in IT, sweeping through the cloud as new standards and demands develop. Improved integration and cost-efficiency are huge benefits and proprietary offerings lack in comparison. That being said, Gluster just hopped on one of the biggest bandwagon …
Intel Targets Micros Servers with Upcoming Sub-10-Watt Atom Server Chip
During a “microserver” briefing in San Francisco, Intel execs disclosed the company plans to launch a less than 10-watt version of its Atom processor in 2012, as well as a sub-15-watt Xeon powered by the Sandy Bridge architecture arriving later this year. …