Sorry Seagate, but your hard drives suck
The online backup provider Backblaze came up with some interesting statistics about the mortality rates of its hard drives last November, based on the 25,000 units it has in service. It’s study at the…
Chronicles from theCUBE: Looking Back, #VTUG 2014
By Greg Stewart
On January 16, 2014 theCUBE traveled to Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA for the eighth annual Virtualization Technology Users Group (VTUG) Winter Warmer. The mission of VTUG is to provide education and information to IT Professionals…
SolidFire vying for ecosystem prominence as OpenStack matures
OpenStack is at a crossroads. Already in its fourth year, the project is hailed by supporters as a private cloud alternative to AWS without the lock-in, but there remain significant gaps between vision and…
Don’t expect the “brogrammer” culture to change just because a female joins the team, says DataGravity CEO Paula Long
By Ryan Cox
DataGravity is the brainchild of EqualLogic co-founder Paula Long and John Joseph, who served as the storage vendor’s head of products and marketing for several years. The startup first made a splash in June…
QLogic and Brocade team up for SAN + Gen 6 FC
Modular appliances that collapse compute and storage into a single resource tier are taking the enterprise data center by storm, but QLogic doesn’t see hyperconvergence vendors like the recently funded Nutanix disrupting its traditional…
iHealth Labs launch takes health monitoring to 3 new levels
Wearable technology was big at CES 2014. We saw a multitude of wearable devices that not only keep track of our daily activities but also connect us to our mobile devices. Yet there’s more…
Zscaler predicts big security challenges ahead for 2014
As we are set on the path that 2014 has ahead for us, many of the cybersecurity predictions that have been put out are already manifesting in actual events. Zscaler is a cloud security…
The ‘connected home’ is streets ahead of wearable tech
Few trends are hotter than wearable technology at the moment, which takes the form of all manner of weird and wonderful gizmos, the most common being sleek-looking smart watches and groovy-but-geeky Google Glass. With…
Worst passwords of 2013 : How to keep safe this year
Passwords are designed to protect us, but managing them in today’s technologically advanced world seems more trouble than it’s worth. Despite 2013 being a year of consumer awareness for a number of security and…
Get ready to sink your teeth in 3D printed Hershey’s chocolates
3D printers have been in existence for quite a while, but even now there are few households that own one seeing as the technology is still prohibitively expensive, and they’re not all that easy…