Mike Major, Applied Micro’s VP of Corporate Communications dropped in on theCUBE at the HP Moonshot 2013 announcement with John Furrier and Dave Vellante to share some of the Moonshot news. Applied Micro is a major manufacturer of embedded processor products and part of the HP Moonshot effort. Their concept for the System on a ...

And the countdown is on – by the time you are read this there is less than a year left on the clock for Windows XP. April 8, 2014 marks the end of a marvelous 12-year run when support for the popular operating system officially ends. Rest assured, mark my words – there will be ...

In the hosting game, the target is always world-class, and Codero Hosting has just announced a partnership with Dell to solidify their world-class promise. The announcement means Dell’s enterprise-grade servers and equipment are now part of the hosting solution provider’s extensive services and infrastructure lineup. The introduction of the enterprise-ready hardware inevitably means a number ...

Data Visualization – it’s one of the unsung heroes in the Big Data picture, but that appears to be changing. Seattle-based data visualization company Tableau Software filed its IPO statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday and is looking to raise up to $150 Million dollars. The stock ticker symbol will be “DATA”. ...

Everywhere we look nowadays we see vindication of leading edge storage technologies in all kinds of scenarios.  We are witness to a merging of a number of technologies here with a newly announced alignment between Tegile Systems, a virtual-storage and SSD leader and Connectria, a global managed hosting company with over 1,000 customers.   Tegile ...

Things have been politically heating up between the US and North Korea in the last few weeks. Now it seems that the famed hacktivist group Anonymous has stepped into the fray. In a just released Pastebin post, the group announced some demands, including the resignation of Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader as well as demands ...

Part 1 While many CIOs and CISOs think they’re taking the right steps to protect their organizations from cyber-attacks, the reality is that the number of successful attacks in the U.S. continues to climb, along with the cost per breach. According to a survey conducted by HP and the Ponemon Institute, the average number of ...

Cloud Services Brokerage (CSB) – it’s a term that hasn’t really seeped into the mainstream, yet.  As we’ll show, there is an ever-increasing necessity for this emerging service, so much that in a recent Gartner report, the predicted market for CSB will be $100 Billion, with CSB platforms and providers becoming the fastest growing segment ...

A report has emerged stating that Oracle is blocking access to its sites from Iran.  The block could mean that any Iranian servers that are using Oracle will be unable to update their systems, at least by conventional methods, leaving them exposed and vulnerable to zero-day and breaking exploits. It is also interesting that the ...

Alert Logic is in the business of making a better more secure cloud. As the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions they focus on securing all aspects of the application and infrastructure stack. Their latest report on the state of Cloud Security shows a number of interesting trends. One of these is that web applications attacks ...