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IBM Unveils Optic Data Center Chip for Big Data Workloads
Big Blue developed a new piece of silicon that integrates the electrical circuits found in processors, servers and other data center equipment with optical components that can deliver much faster connectivity than its traditional counterparts. The new technology is called “silicon nanophotonics” and can deliver speeds of up to 25 Gbps per channel by converting ...
Broadcom’s New Mobile Chip: NFC is the New WiFi
Broadcom unveiled a new chip that offers support for near-field communications, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and FM radio on a single piece of silicon. The BCM43341 is a re-architected replica of a similar chip that only supports the latter three wireless technologies, and can be found in Apple and Samsung devices today. The big thing ...
Zendesk Investor Sees Fresh Potential in Panorama9, Value In Cloud
Panorama9, a Danish cloud startup that specializes in cloud automation, has raised $900,000 in seed funding round from several local angle investors. Among them is Morten Stromsted, who issued a statement to mark the occasion. “As IT teams face a variety of challenges, from BYOD to virtual collaboration, there’s a pressing need for better ways ...
Need Cloud Module Assembly Free of Messy Details? Singly Loves APIs
Singly’s new application fabric went into public beta yesterday, with the premise of allowing developers to focus less on infrastructure and more on user experience. The startup is offering an API service that allows users to choose and implement cloud modules in their application without having to worry about the messy details. Singly’s platform includes ...
Couchbase Server 2.0: NoSQL for Documents
Couchbase just revealed the newest release of its flagship database management system. Couch Server 2.0 includes new features designed to compliment a broader range of use cases than before, as well as major enhancements to core functionality that will improve things across the board. One of the additions is a JSON-based data model that allows ...
Dell Wants to Solve the BYOD Problem with Kace Line-up, New Mobile Appliance
Hardware maker Dell unveiled a new mobile solution that aims to make it easier for enterprises to manage employee-owned devices in the enterprise. The K3000 appliance joins the K1000 admin platform for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, and the K2000 box for system deployment and app migration. The K3000 supports phones and tablets running iOS ...
HITRUST Says Healthcare Industry Can’t Protect its Data
The latest report from the Health Information Trust Alliance sheds new light on the state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry. HITRUST’s statistics suggest that while the some progress has been made in the past few years, the industry as a whole is not yet equipped to properly ensure patients’ privacy. The organization says that ...
HootSuite Grows App Directory with Nimble Integration, Full CRM Features
Nimble, a maker of social management tools for the enterprise, announced today that it’s integrating its platform with HootSuite. The cloud dashboard provider offers features that compliment that of Nimble’s own software. “Social media is moving beyond the early adoption by marketing and community managers to the rest of a company’s customer facing business professionals. ...
Pica8 Debuts Industry First OpenFlow Architecture
Pica8 is the latest SDN startup to have exited stealth in the past few weeks. And like its predecessors, the Palo Alto-based firm also has its own unique approach to software-defined networking. Pica8’s flagship offering is a new reference architecture for service providers that takes full advantage of the existing technology in the market. The ...
The Big Data Review: Facebook Ads, MapR and Cloudera’s $65M Thursday
The past week had some rather noteworthy tidbits coming out of the big data space. For one, Facebook demonstrated that it takes more than just technical skills to make analytics work for your bottom line. We’ve learned that the social media giant agreed to pay $20 million to settle a class-action suit that accused it ...