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More webOS Plans Emerge as HP Details its Mobile Goals
Hewlett-Packard’s move to open-source webOS may have been the best route to avoid the Palm acquisition from being written down in the history pages as a complete blunder. Now the company can refocus on monetizing its ecosystem, which will – hopefully – help flesh out the platform as it grows. SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier discussed ...
Broadcom’s Vision of 2012: More Products, Faster Speed
Networking solutions maker Broadcom will release products based on the IEEE 802.11ac wireless technology in late 2012, a few months after the standard’s ratification sometime in mid last year. The most significant improvement 802.11ac introduces over its predecessors is a major performance increase, with speeds upwards of 1GB/s. PCMag’s Mark Hachman made a comparison of ...
QLogic Offers Extended Warranty for 10GB Adapters
Networking gear vendor QLogic extended the five-year warranty available with its Fibre Channel adapter to its 10Gb Ethernet adapters – specifically the QLogic-branded 3200 Series Intelligent Ethernet adapters and 8200 Series converged networking adapters (CANs). The company said this last part of the extended warranty is “unmatched in the industry. “QLogic is able to offer a more ...
Intel Slashes Outlook Due to Thailand Disaster
The flooding in Thailand has led to a decline in output for the local hard-drive manufacturing industry, which has become a sore spot for hardware manufacturers considering the plants in the nation ship the majority of the products on the market. Chipmakers have taken a direct hit, and Intel is clearly no exception. Today the ...
VMware’s Vision of the Social Enterprise: it’s All Mobile
VMware has attended a couple of events lately where company officials shed some light about the way they see how the cloud, and how user virtualization ties in to the social enterprise today, as well as discussing the impact these factors will make in the future. Tim Young, VMware’s vice president of social enterprise who joined the ...
Top iPad, Android Business Apps: Analytics on-the-go with Woopra
The featured app in this week’s list is the newly launched Woopra, an analytics app for the iPad and iPhone that compresses a Google Analytics-like service into a tablet-optimized view with a lot of graphical additions to add some extra appeal. iPad Woopra Woopra mixes together on-the-go analytics with rich visualization, an element that can ...
This Week in Cloud: Services, Analytics in the Spotlight
This week it’s all about cloud services, and an interesting push by IBM to get into the analytics world. The first two developments pertain to the accelerating open-source trend within the as-a-service space, where this approach allows vendors to offer significant advantages over closed alternatives in some cases. This week OpenLogic said it has integrated ...
Red Hat Introduces Open-Source Big Data Storage Solution
Red Hat further clarifies their intentions behind its acquisition of open storage management firm Gluster with the launch of the Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, a big data file system based on open-source technology. The offering, based on the GlusterFS 3.2 platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, is designed for companies that analyze large ...
Custom App Optimization with New Relic’s Latest Integration
Cloud-based app performance monitoring service New Relic has been integrated into CloudSwing, an open-source PaaS by OpenLogic. CloudSwing is based on the concept of allowing the user to do a lot of customization in order to optimize how their apps are running in the cloud, and entered general availability in September. OpenLogic says it’s doubled ...
IBM’s Futuristic Ideas for High-Performance Computing
IBM is introducing Watson to the big data world. The supercomputer includes a lot of components developed by the company – and some of which have been proved to be quite useful for IBM customers in the medical industry looking to extract value from their data. The latest step IBM has taken is introducing its ...