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The True Perk of HP Moonshot is Built-In Support for Alternate Architectures, a Win for SLI
It seems the entire industry, from the enterprise to hardware manufacturers, is rethinking datacenter design, making smarter decisions at every layer of the stack. This week brought a new disruption from none other than Hewlett-Packard, with the launch of Moonshot 1500, a new server that’s stronger, faster, and more energy-efficient. Is this revolutionary for the ...
Facebook Home : A Brilliant Software Strategy Paving the Way for Twitter + LinkedIn?
Last week Facebook unveiled Home, a social interface “launcher” for Android that turns your phone into a full-blown social media hub, complete with a notifications, instant messaging and a real-time activity feed. The company also announced a partnership with HTC to release a midrange phone specifically built for its upcoming app suite, which will launch ...
WANdisco Unveils New Version of Hadoop Distro
WANdisco, a relatively new name in the Big Data space, just unveiled the latest release of its Hadoop distribution. WANdisco Distro (WDD) version features a simplified interface, and introduces support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2, in addition to RedHat Enterprise Linux and CentOS. “The integration of Hadoop into the mainstream enterprise ...
Xbox Stingray Could Take the Sting out of Aging Console Prices
Microsoft’s upcoming next-generation console, known as Xbox 720 or “Durango,” has received a lot of attention lately due to a report that alleged it may ship with an always-on DRM mechanism. A blogger by the name of Paul Thurrott is now claiming that the company might have yet another surprise in store for users, a ...
Industry Forces Team Up to Create Standardized SDN Platform
Today marks the debut of OpenDaylight, a new initiative meant to combat fragmentation in the rapidly growing software-defined networking space. The project is led by the Linux Foundation, and the formidable contributor list includes almost every prominent networking vendor: Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, NEC, Arista, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Dell and IBM. Intel, Microsoft, Red Had, VMware and ...
Xbox 720 Rumored to Require Always On DRM
Last month news that Microsoft’s next-generation console will pack three times processing power as the 360 sent ripples through the gaming community. Now the Xbox 720 is back in limelight, but this time gamers have no reason to celebrate. Unnamed sources familiar with familiar with Durango, the internal codename for the work-in-progress console, told gaming ...
Facebook Home’s Mobile Ad Strategy: A Bait-and-Switch Plan
When Facebook started sending out invites for a mobile launch event last month, the blogosphere exploded with rumors: some pundits speculated that company is developing on a social OS, while others predicted that Zuckerberg will unveil homegrown phone. Last week, Facebook finally let the cat out of the bag. The social media giant is hoping ...
Developers, Analysts Win with Tintri’s Smart SLI Storage
Tintri just launched the latest version of its flagship storage virtualization platform, Tintri OS 2.0. The solution features only one new addition, but it’s a major one: a set of VM- and vDisk-level replication capabilities branded as ReplicateVM. The company says that its new software is an industry first, and boasts that per-VM replication eliminates ...
High Fidelity Receives $2.4M to Realize Bold Virtual Reality Ambitions
High Fidelity, a low-profile San Francisco startup, raised $2.4 million out of a $3.4 million funding round earlier this week. The SEC filing’s related persons section lists Linden Lab founder Philip Rosedale, and former colleagues Freddy Heiberger and Ryan Karpf. Linden Lab is the company that created Second Life, an online virtual world that had over ...
Big Data Review: Venture Capital and IBM’s PureData
This week a New Hampshire analytics startup announced a massive funding round, Tableau filed for an IPO, and IBM unveiled a new Big Data appliance that embodies the culmination of its analytics efforts so far. Deep Information Science raised $10 million in a first round of funding from Stage 1 Ventures, Robert Davoli and a number ...