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Rackspace declares it’s NOT for sale following lowball offers
Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting Inc. has announced it’s no longer planning to sell itself or merge with another company after it failed to receive any offers ‘worthy’ enough. Rackspace announced it was considering “inbound strategic proposals” last May when it hired the services of Morgan Stanley to help it decide what its next steps should ...
IBM ranked as top dog in software-defined storage platforms niche
IDC has just published its second quarter 2014 Worldwide Storage Software Qview survey, ranking IBM as the world’s top supplier of Software-defined Storage Platforms (SDS-P). SDS-P is described as ”a new functional market added to the total storage software market that covers block, file, object, and/or hyper-converged software offerings that enable the creation of a ...
Reports say EMC XtremIO firmware 3.0 upgrade wipes out flash data
EMC is under fire over reports that upgrading to the as-yet-unreleased version 3.0 of its XtremIO subsystem deletes all data from the flash array, and that users need to back up everything first. The rumor came from Andrew Dauncey on The Odd Angry Shot blog. XtremIO firmware v3.0 is supposed to add speed performance and ...
Comcast: “We haven’t banned Tor, in fact we use it too”
Comcast yesterday denied allegations it’s threatening to cut off customers who use the anonymous Tor web browser. Jason Livingood, VP of internet & communications engineering at Comcast, penned a blog post which insisted, “Comcast is not asking customers to stop using Tor, or any other browser for that matter.” The post explains that Comcast doesn’t have ...
Gartner: Flash array startups ranked ahead of EMC, HP and IBM
Gartner Inc. has ranked three upstarts ahead of the likes of EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Company and IBM in its latest solid-state appliance critical capabilities report: namely, Kaminario, Pure Storage and SolidFire Inc. Gartner’s latest assessment differs from its most recent Magic Quadrant for solid-state arrays, which looks at an organization’s vision and its ability to ...
Google’s offering a cool $100,000 for startups to use its cloud
Google Inc. is seeking to temp entrepreunerial startups with a cool $100,000 in credit so long as they power their apps using its cloud platform rather than their rivals. The new program is called Google Cloud Platform for Startups, and was announced last Friday at its Google for Entrepreneurs Partner Summit. “This offer supports our ...
The ‘Cosmos’ browser wants to surf the web via SMS messages
A new project has emerged that’s hoping to deliver Internet access to the developing world via text messages (SMSs) alone. The idea probably sounds a little absurd to those of us in the developed world who’re more concerned with streaming movies on our iPhones. But while mobile phones are common pretty much everywhere these days, ...
The exClone Project: Now even you can become immortal
“There is no such thing as death. People die only if we forget.” Immortality has long been a dream of humankind; even since before Juan Ponce de Leon sought the legendary “Fountain of Youth,” the ancients pondered everlasting life. These days, some optimists sign up to have their bodies cryogenically frozen after ‘death’ in the hope ...
HP gobbles up Eucalyptus to strengthen cloud biz
In a shock announcement this morning Hewlett-Packard Company has revealed it’s buying up Eucalyptus, the open-source hybrid cloud software maker that’s been such a hit with customers of Amazon Web Services. HP has acquired Eucalyptus ostensibly to bolster its Helion Cloud offerings, but what that means for Eucalyptus software remains to be seen. Terms of ...
EMC denies it’s planning to sell off VMware
EMC Corp. has reportedly denied that it plans to offload its stake in VMware Inc., just hours after rumors of an impending sale re-emerged via the New York Post. Whispers of this news have been bubbling just under the surface for several weeks now, ever since activist investor Elliot Management picked up a sizeable stake ...