Is Heartbleed the sum of our open source fears?
Whatever trust a sane person could have in the Internet was lost last week, thanks to idealism and cheapness. The awfulness that is Heartbleed would have been difficult to imagine, except it is now…
How Infinio delivers storage performance in the software-defined data center | #CUBEConversations
Server virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere help lower costs and drive efficiencies in the compute layer, but the operational benefits often come at the expense of increased complexity and reduced performance in other…
President Obama’s biased stance on exploiting online security bugs
President Barack Obama has deemed that when a cyber-security vulnerability has been discovered by any federal agency, it is the government’s duty to report the issue instead of exploiting it for intelligence gains. However, there…
Hyperscale whitebox network architectures becoming accessible for some
Google’s publication of its Andromeda network stack and the market introduction of hardware-independent network switch operating systems from Cumulus Networks and others is making hyperscale networking based on white box switches more practical for…
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop meets big iron
IBM celebrated the 50th anniversary of the original System/360 this week with the introduction of a slew of new products for its latest generation System z mainframe, including a purpose-built Hadoop distribution developed in…
Weekly Cloud review: Incumbent vendors embrace new reality of enterprise computing
Traditional enterprise vendors are embracing the public cloud as software-as-a-service continues to disrupt on-premise applications. SAP, for one, is already well along its way in transforming into a cloud services company, and it marked…
Microsoft making big leaps in producing original content for Xbox One
By Saroj Kar
Xbox Entertainment Studios, the division of Microsoft responsible for producing television content exclusive to its platform, announced that it will produce unique TV content for the Xbox platform. The original programming for Xbox will…
VCE passes $1B with 50% year-to-year growth
The sometimes underestimated VCE alliance of VMware, Cisco and EMC had 50% year-over-year growth in 2013 and surpassed $1B in annual revenues. It has 800+ customers in 57 countries and has sold 1,700 Vblocks.…
Samsung sets to commercialize the next big things with graphene breakthrough
By Saroj Kar
Graphene is a material that could greatly improve the world of high technology in the future. Isolated by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov (Nobel Prize in 2010 for their work) in 2004, graphene is one of…
Microsoft’s plans to invade smart homes and cars + more
This week’s SmartWorld Series features the future role of Kinect in smart homes, a breakthrough discovery from a tech giant, and a software giant’s efforts in the connected car market. For those who missed…