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StrataFusion Hires Former VMware CIO to Help Clients with IT
StrataFusion, a consultancy whose portfolio consists primarily of “CIO for Hire” services targeted at senior management, is certainly living up to its name. The firm just announced that VMware alumnus Mark Egan (not to be confused with the guitarist) has been brought back as a partner. Egan originally signed up with StrataFusion in 2006, after having served ...
Study Finds Most IT Risk Lies in Data Layer
Continuity Software, a provider of uptime assurance solutions, released a new paper that highlights the most severe risks to data availability in the enterprise. Continuity chief financial officer Doron Pinhas observes that the root cause behind these threats is reticence “to run most business-critical applications in a virtual environment” shared by “most organizations,” especially in ...
Wreck-It Ralph Digital Download Due a Month Before Blue-ray Debut
Disney is taking a very unorthodox approach to monetizing its IP. While other big name studios are attempting to curb Internet freedom in an effort to reduce piracy, the cartoon tycoon is making its latest hit available online to tap into an audience that its peers have left largely ignoring. Disney is targeting the tech-savvy ...
The Death of BYOD Comes Closer at CES 2013
In today’s mobile era, workers are reluctant to part with their devices in exchange for company-issued BBs and aging laptops. Smartphones and tablets offer greater convenience, improved user experience and have been proven to increase worker productivity on numerous occasions – but like with everything, there’s a catch. The problem is that the bring-your-own-device trend ...
Mysterious Startup Raises $20M for Next Gen Security Software
The only thing we know about the Mountain View, Calif-based Shape Security is that it’s developing on what it pegs as a “completely new type of web security product.” Shape’s deliberately sparse homepage touts the its software as “military-grade technology” that aims to give hackers a much harder time cracking cloud services. Specifically, the goal is ...
HTC CEO Remains Optimistic, Big Plans for CES?
HTC is due to report fourth quarter earnings on Monday, wrapping up what has been a disappointing year to say the least. The company’s global market share dropped half a percentage point to 2.2%, and its current stock price is down 80 percent from a record high in 2010. Meanwhile, nearly all of its competitors ...
Navigation Huge in This Week’s Big Data Review
Apple is getting giddy over navigational data. Rumor had it that the phonemaker is in talks to acquire Waze, a popular GPS service that uses data from its users to optimize its maps and keep them up to date. The rumor mill has died down since news first cropped up this week, but the idea ...
Qualcomm Sued Over Political Spending
In a move that may set a precedent for the entire private sector, New York comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has sued Qualcomm for allegedly making disproportional contributions to promote its senior management’s political agenda. Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs has contributed over $2 billion to at least three Democratic super PACs. DiNapoli, who is a Democrat himself ...
This Week in the Cloud: PaaS, Datacenters & Xbox
This past week Dell announced that it’s jumping on the OpenStack bandwagon, Heroku expanded support for Python and Google announced new data centers in Asia. Finally, Microsoft acquired a home automation startup and revealed what is widely suspected to be a timer to the Xbox 720 debut. Dell’s head of cloud strategy says his company ...
It’s Official: Dell Committing to OpenStack This Year, Will Beat HP Cloud Services
Nnamdi Orakwue, Dell’s vice president of cloud, is cautious about jumping on the OpenStack bandwagon. But he says that an open-source public service is already on the drawing board for his company, which has every intention of getting in on the action when the technology is “where it needs to be.” Orakwue says that we ...