Fresh iPad Pro 9.7″ accessories: New cases, keyboards and more
During Apple’s Spring event, the company introduced the 9.7” iPad Pro, best described as a jacked up version of the iPad Air 2. If you have an iPad Air 2 and you bought a…
Nintendo NX controller leaks confirmed fake by their creators
By Eric David
The rabid Nintendo fan base can breathe a collective sigh of relief, as two sets of images that allegedly leaked the design for the controllers for the upcoming Nintendo NX console have been confirmed to be fake. Interestingly,…
What is Oracle Cloud at Customer, and what’s it mean for the datacenter?
This is a big week for Oracle’s cloud angle, the latest being a new family of offerings that provide CIOs with choices for enterprise software deployment, and what Oracle calls an easy path for moving…
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Cloudera buys cloud analytics startup Sense to help data scientists become more productive
Two years since its last venture capital round, Cloudera Inc. apparently still has plenty left over in the bank for strategic acquisitions. The Hadoop distributor this week picked up a Bay Area startup called…
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EMC’s all flash VMAX an answer to extend hybrid VMAX, says Wikibon’s Floyer
EMC’s new VMAX all flash array (AFA) solves performance problems for IO constrained VMAX users. This, according to Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest Professional Alert. However, he writes, certain limitations of the VMAX AFA make…
5 ways to improve cloud application performance
Application performance is always a concern. Is the code written well? Is the database optimized? Can the application handle load spikes? When the application is on a public cloud platform, however, developers have unique…
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Oracle’s new VSM7 fits the bill for mainframe hybrid cloud backup, says Wikibon
Oracle’s VSM7 hybrid cloud solution for mainframe backup offers low-access storage with services and an interface designed specifically for the needs of mainframes running large transaction processing workloads. And for one-tenth of a cent…
New Bitcoin NFC mobile payments provider Shake launches alpha test
By Duncan Riley
Want to pay for your morning coffee with Bitcoin, but don’t want to carry a Bitcoin debit card? Soon you will be able to with Canadian startup Shake Labs, Inc. releasing an alpha test…
Apple is developing a TV show about apps to be fronted by Will.i.am
By Duncan Riley
Tech giant Apple, Inc. is ramping up its television business and is developing a new show, according to reports Thursday. According to The New York Times, the unscripted show will be about apps, will…
How to enable Night Shift ‘From Sunset to Sunrise’ schedule option in iOS 9.3
By Collen Kriel
One of the most exciting and talked about new features in iOS 9.3 is Night Shift. Night Shift lets users adjust the color temperature of their iPhone or iPad’s screen to reduce blue light…