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Big trouble for US firms in China: Locals turn to home-grown tech
American tech providers have long been enraptured with the idea that there’s a monolithic business opportunity in China, so long as they’re prepared to bend over backward to conform to the various rules and regulations that set the country apart from others. But according to Frank Liu, an analyst specializing in Big Data and converged ...
X-IO’s offers emergency room response for VDI ailments
Is your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) feeling a little under the weather? If so, you might want to give X-IO’s new VDI doctor a call and get yourself fighting fit within 72 hours. X-IO is claiming it’s able to implement a quick-fix to your VDI troubles as little as 72 hours after diagnosing the problem ...
Amazon offers new low-cost cloud instances with burst option
System admins looking to run smaller workloads at lower cost might be interested in a new, cheaper Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance now being offered by Amazon Web Services. It’s claimed to provide a temporary boost to compute performance when required. AWS says its new T2 instances might be a more affordable option for customers ...
You might be ready for IoT, but your network isn’t
Enterprises are willing to embrace the Internet of Things, but deployment is being held back by network capacity worries and security concerns, according to a new survey from Infoblox. While most IT professionals believe there’s a potentially lucrative market in IoT, the big worry is that organizations lack the network capacity to deal with demand ...
CoreOS takes the fight to Red Hat with Managed Linux
CoreOS, one of the youngest new distros in the Linux family that relies on Docker containers to manage both the system and applications, has announced $8 million in series A funding. At the same time, it’s also launched a new subscription version of its product – nudging it ever closer into Red Hat’s territory. CoreOS ...
Gartner predicts IT spending to grow, but only just
Enterprises are spending a less than anticipated amount of money on IT, according to the latest tidbit from Gartner. The analyst firm blames price pressure due to increased competition, a lack of product differentiation, and widespread availability of viable alternatives as the biggest cause of reduced spending in 2014. What this means is that global ...
Google targets ‘the next billion’ with Android One
Google has launched an initiative designed to make smartphones more affordable to develop and produce. The initiative will target OEMs specifically making phones for developing markets, which could help increase Android’s already dominant consumer market share even further. While smartphones are fairly commonplace in the US, the opposite holds true in developing nations, where most ...
Instagram moves 20 billion images to Facebook servers
Instagram announced last week that it’s picked up its billions of images stored in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and dumped them into Facebook’s own servers in one of the largest data migration operations ever undertaken. News of the move came from this interview with Facebook infrastructure engineer and Open Compute Foundation program developer Charlie Manese. ...
NSA’s first transparency report as clear as mud
The NSA has published its first ever “transparency report”, and surprise, surprise – it’s anything but ‘transparent’. The report supposedly reveals the number of ‘targets’ the agency has spied upon, although the NSA’s confusing definition of the word “transparency” makes it somewhat difficult to understand the data it provides. “Within the Intelligence Community, the term ...
Gartner: Let’s get ready for ‘digital business,’ especially you security pros
IT security professionals need to ready themselves for the coming “digital business” revolution and a new breed of security implications that it’s sure to bring, said Gartner analyst Jorge Lopez at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit yesterday. Gartner defines digital business as “the creation of new business designs by blurring the digital and physical ...