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Gale Technologies Picked Up By Dell – Building a Cloud Arsenal
In addition to the growing wide-spread number of choices in cloud computing, an ever-growing number of cloud management options is available as well. Dell added to their growing portfolio of enterprise technology by announcing the acquisition of Gale Technologies. Recently, the company completed the acquisition of Quest Software, and is building a solid base of ...
Feds Continue Closing Datacenters in Major Cloud Shift
Some fascinating numbers are being reported from the federal government sector that indicate a shift to cloud technology in a cost-strategy effort. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the latest statistics last week in which 64 data centers have been shut down since August. Out of its 3100 data centers, the operation is aiming ...
Office 365 Outages Affect North America – Microsoft Follows Through on Guarantee
Microsoft dealt with some pretty significant outages of its Office 365 services this week. Customers and partners are reacting. Some outraged. Some disappointed that they had subscribed to a service that was allegedly more stable and secure than within their own infrastructure. The first of the two delays happened November 8th, where significant delays in ...
Codero Delivers Hybrid Cloud to New Customers
Out of the ways to adopt cloud computing, stories about the success of hybrid cloud solutions are among the most compelling as they meet the requirements of real-world business environments. Codero Hosting has announced a set of customer wins that tell that exact hybrid cloud narrative well. The customers come from a variety of sectors, ...
Romney’s Project Orca – a Big Data Fail
A week after the 2012 Presidential election, we have seen the waves of opinions, analysis, and even soul-searching. The outcome surprised many as Obama was re-elected despite a number of indisputable issues, the foremost being the state of the economy. Both sides are looking at many factors, doing analysis, the breakdowns, voting numbers, and deep ...
Apple and HTC Decide to Play Nice, Drop Patent Issues
A surprise agreement emerged over the weekend, that put a number of patent issues to rest between Apple and HTC. The agreement resolves all of their patent disputes worldwide and sets up a 10-year patent licensing arrangement. HTC and Apple have reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ...
Cyan Blue Planet – Flexible SDN in the DataCenter
Software-Defined Networking, more commonly referred to as SDN, is one of the leading trends in networking today and we cover it here quite a bit. When you think about the inherent virtualization characteristics of the cloud, the inevitable shift in networking taking place right now in the form of SDN is a force to be ...
Rumors of a Microsoft Surface Phone Stirring Major Buzz
Is a Microsoft Surface Phone on the way? A recent Wall St. Journal report said that Microsoft is making its own smartphone. Based on “people familiar with the situation”, it is said that the company is in testing with Asian component suppliers. We could looking at a somewhat clumsy situation because Microsoft just released Windows ...
Microsoft – More Windows Phone Apps On The Way, Releases SDK
In the wake of the Microsoft Windows Phone announcement, one glaring aspect of Microsoft’s prospects has remained in plain view – a significant gap in terms of available apps. All that is about to change as Microsoft states that more apps are on the way. That’s a big deal compared to the app availability that ...
Cloudera and HP – Working Together for a Bigger, Better Data World
If you haven’t seen it, a great interview from #theCube at Strata-Hadoop World 2012 last week featured Steve Watt, Hadoop Chief Technologist for Hewlett-Packard and Amr Awadallah, Cloudera – CTO. Among the topics discussed were the partnership between their companies, customer perspectives on Big Data and Hadoop, Impala -Cloudera’s latest update, and the next phases ...