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VDI Trends: Key Influencers Drive New Solutions
Nimble Storage revealed the results of a study that asked 600 IT professionals about their current position on VDI in the enterprise. The report includes some interesting figures about the drivers and challenges that are moving this industry, which provide an opportunity to reflect on how vendors have been addressing these requirements. More than 60 ...
QLogic a Major Influence as Supercomputers Race Ahead
The 38th edition of the Top 500 Supercomputer List provided some revealing insights into the networking layer of the most powerful supercomputers running today, an area where InfiniBand solutions, a notable portion of which is provided by QLogic, are moving forward. QLogic and a fresh Wikibon study have pulled some interesting data, in addition to ...
Microsoft Revamps SkyDrive as Apple, Google Up the Ante on Consumer Cloud
Microsoft revamped its SkyDrive online file storage and collaboration platform, burying the No Downloads sign deeper into the cloud and adding other enhancements to the cloud-based service. SkyDrive’s UI has been improved to make the whole process of organizing files and folders more efficient and less clumsy so to speak, addressing on-going users ‘complaints. On ...
VMware Latest to Adopt BYOD: a More Mobile Workplace
Javier Soltero, CTO of SaaS and application services for VMware, revealed during the CloudBeat conference that his organization has stopped issuing corporate phones and asked its 10,000 workers to bring their own devices a few weeks ago. The EMC virtualization subsidiary is the latest IT organization to acknowledge the advantages of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) option in ...
Couchbase and Cloudera’s New Hadoop Connector, First for NoSQL
NoSQL database provider Couchbase and Cloudera developed a Hadoop connector that fuses together the advantages of both the companies’ offerings. The Couchbase Hadoop Connecter leverages the Apache Sqoop plug-in to allow the migration of large datasets between Couchbase and Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop. “Cloudera and Couchbase provide highly complementary technologies, and our integration gives customers ...
DDN Adds Joseph Cowan to Board
DataDirect Networks, maker of big data-driven storage systems, announced that Joseph L. Cowan will be joining its board of directors. “Joseph Cowan has extraordinary insight into the solutions required by customers in analytics-driven, data-intensive industries including financial services and manufacturing, and we are very pleased to welcome him to DDN’s Board of Directors,” said Alex ...
Cisco Forecasts Massive Cloud Growth by 2015
Networking gear provider Cisco released its first Global Cloud Index study, a new series that focuses on future global datacenter and cloud traffic. According to the inaugural issue, cloud traffic will multiple by 12 within the next 3 or so years at 66 percent, a compounded increase per year to 1.6 zettabytes, compared to today’s 130 annual ...
Mark Benioff Strengthens Salesforce Social Media Agenda at NYC Keynote
Marc Benioff, the CEO of enterprise SaaS provider Salesforce, has given his latest keynote today during the Cloudforce New York event, sponsored by his company. He focused on the social enterprise, a topic he has been advocating quite enthusiastically in the past few months (to the point Oracle even decided to pull the plug on his ...
Privacy Wins with Fresh Facebook-FTC Agreement
Social networking giant Facebook has reached a privacy settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, WSJ reported. The company has been under intense international scrutiny due to a rather lengthy list of blunders involving users’ personal data, and the FTC plans to make sure these kinds of incidents won’t happen again. “Facebook is obligated to ...
Michael Rizkalla Leaves HP Amidst webOS Confusion
Michael Rizkalla, the former senior director of webOS application development at HP, is the latest executive that left the company ever since employment in its consumer units became unstable. “The departure of Rizkalla highlights the bigger problem for HP,” writes GigaOm. ‘Even as it debates the future of webOS, the fact that it’s potentially on the ...