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Ultimate EMC World Collection : 2013 on theCUBE
It’s been a great week so far in Las Vegas, as we near the end of our three-day broadcast from EMC World. It’s our third year in a row live broadcasting from this massive event, kicking off a hectic but thrilling Summer Tour that takes our premier video production, theCUBE around the world as hosts ...
Juniper/EMC Whip Out Software-Defined Solutions With Support For OpenStack
Juniper and EMC have just outlined their respective software-defined-networking and software-defined-storage strategies, with support for OpenStack being the common thread between both new solutions. We’re expecting plenty more SDN news before EMC World comes to its conclusion later this week too, with companies like Red Hat, Mirantis and Citrix all expected to enter the conversation ...
“The Internet Needs A Delete Button”
Eric Schmidt’s words, not mine. In surprising comments made during a conference at Manhattan’s New York university yesterday, the Google Chairman touched upon a sticky subject that’s likely to resonate with most internet users today. No two ways about it, the world is much better off with now it has the internet. The internet has ...
Seagate Goes Flash, Unveils Trio of SSDs for the Enterprise
After years of making no more than a halfhearted effort, Seagate has finally shifted its involvement in the flash storage market up a notch, with the announcement of a class of four new Solid State Drives (SSDs), including the Seagate 600 SSD, Seagate 600 Pro SSD, Seagate 1200 SSD and the Seagate X8 Accelerator. Most ...
Bill Gates Says “iPad Users are Frustrated”. Idiot…
The iPad vs the Surface Pro. We could argue till we’re blue in the face over which platform’s better, but there’s one thing that isn’t in any doubt – the vast majority of consumers prefer fruit-branded tablets rather than anything that runs Windows 8. Sales of the Surface have been disappointing in comparison to those ...
Dell Gobbles Up Enstratius As It Chases Software-Defined Future
It might not have sorted out the question of its ownership just yet, but that hasn’t stopped Dell from gobbling up smaller companies as it looks to retool its core businesses. In its latest acquisition, Dell has just snapped up enterprise cloud management solution provider Enstratius, a move that should give it a serious boot ...
Israel’s Pissed At Google’s Support For Palestine
Google can be quite opinionated when it comes to sensitive matters to do with international politics. Last year it took a lot of heat in Cambodia due to its controversial border demarcations with its neighbor Thailand, while it has a long track record of conflict the Chinese government. Last week though, Google pushed the boat ...
Malaysia’s Web Heavily Censored Before Controversial Elections
In the wake of highly controversial elections that were narrowly won by Malaysia’s ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, evidence is emerging that the government there employed tried and tested internet ‘bullying’ tactics in a bid to silence the opposition and manipulate the vote. Sunday’s election was billed as the most hotly contested vote in Malaysia’s ...
YouTube Subscriptions On The Way As Google Fights Netflix
Google is reportedly getting ready to announce a new subscription service for some of the specialized channels on YouTube, a move that will allow it to finance a much wider range of content and add a second source of revenue to the world’s No.1 video website. The Financial Times is reporting that Google may announce ...
SAP Unveils Rapid Deployment Tools For The Enterprise
SAP has announced the availability of new rapid-deployment applications designed to speed up and simplify scoping, configuring and implementation in enterprise technology. The new online tools will allow companies to speed up deployments through collaborative designs of their systems, before SAP supplies them as complete packages. Once set up, companies will be able to deploy ...