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Astute Networks Boosts I/O for VMware Environments
The VMware-focused virtualization environment could get a big lift at VMworld 2011 with Astute Network’s ViSX G3 accelerator, which would provide with 1500 percent, enhanced read performance on critical applications. The startup, Astute Networks, uses flash memory for accelerating VMware virtualized environments. Today comes news of the addition of single Astute ViSX G3 appliance to ...
Dell Kills its Smallest Tablet in a Darwinian Industry Move
Dell has confirmed the departure of the Streak 5 tablet, one of the smallest versions of Android tablets available in the market. Dell announced the end of the Streak 5 via an image on its Streak 5 tablet web page which says “Streak 5 is no longer available. Goodbye, Streak 5. It’s been a great ...
Can Skype Revolutionize Microsoft Devices?
After Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion three months back, both Microsoft and Skype have been planning deep integration of Skype with Microsoft products. As a part of the integration plan, Skype will be tightly integrated with Windows Phone, Xbox console and a creation of a Windows Mobile Version of Skype. Neil Stevens, Skype vice ...
HP Aggressive with TouchPad Pricing as Tablet Market Intensifies
HP dropped the price of the TouchPad by $100 last week to $399 for the 16 GB models and $499 for the 32 GB models. The price drop was supposed to be a temporary one, but HP decided to extend the discount permanently. Smart thinking, considering the competitive environment for mobile tablets right now, with ...
Dell Combines Tablet, PC Power in Latitude XT3 Update
Dell launched the Latitude XT3 tablet PC this week, hoping to leverage the best of the tablet and PC worlds. The new device is a laptop-tablet combo, with the convenience of a touch screen tablet and the features and power of a laptop. The Latitude XT3, with a larger 13.3 inch high definition touchscreen display, ...
Microsoft Joins Hadoop Party, Adds Support to SQL
Apache Hadoop has been widely used by enterprises for big data management and making major gains these days, with Microsoft being the latest to join the cloud club. Microsoft announced the integration of open source Hadoop framework support to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse platform. This will help organization to process large ...
VMware Embeds RSA Tech into vShield
VMware is fast becoming the foremost competitor in the cloud computing realm, and to add to its product portfolio, VMware is launching new data loss prevention (DLP) features in an updated version of its virtual system security product, vShield, at the upcoming VMworld conference later this month. Based on technology from the RSA Data Loss ...
Microsoft Keeps AAA Credit, Pins Hopes on WP8
Microsoft has received some good reviews for Windows Phone 7, but when it comes to market share, it is still lagging behind Android and Apple. There is still an opportunity for Microsoft to seize the mobile and tablet market when Nokia will move most of its smartphones platforms to run on Windows Phone 7, though ...
Ex-Cisco Employee Accused on Hacking Charges
Cyber-attacks are becoming more recurrent now, and large organizations are suffering sleepless nights to remediate it. The latest to hit, a former Cisco engineer is accused of computer hacking charges by a federal grand jury. Peter Alfred-Adekeye, an ex-Cisco employee, is facing five counts of illegitimately accessing Cisco’s network even after he left the company ...
Warner Music Narrows Loss, Thanks to LimeWire Settlement
Warner Music Group announced its current quarterly sales this week; the company is narrowing down its loss more than it did in this time frame last year. And a lot of this gained income wasn’t from increased sales, it was because of the LimeWire settlement. LimeWire, once the leader of file sharing operation, cut a ...