Tony Scott Named New VMware CIO
To kick off VMworld 2013, VMware announced a new addition to its executive lineup that would help them push efforts to compete with Amazon. Today, the company announced that former Microsoft CIO Tony Scott…
A Bear of Many Colors : Teach Kids to Conserve Energy + Other Smart Home Solutions
In this week’s SmartHome roundup, we’ll be featuring a sad polar bear that teaches kids to conserve energy, a way for people to automate their homes and offices, and several new security gadgets to…
GitHub Developers and Figures: Programming Languages That Pay Big Income
By Saroj Kar
ActionScript and Java appear to be high demand programming languages, thanks to their role in enterprise software and in cloud computing management. As a result, IT professionals with these skills are pulling down amazing…
CIOs Need a Corporate Plan for the Cloud
CIOs who do not have a corporate plan for getting maximum business advantage from the Cloud are dangerously behind the times, and those who think that nobody in their company is using Cloud services…
DevOps Round Up: Exclusive Phoenix Project Study, Agile Products Enhancement
By Saroj Kar
This past week featured a good number of DevOps developments. From Aerospike’s new product launches to an exclusive study of the development team working on Missing World Media’s City of Heroes spiritual successor The…
3 Nails in Ballmer’s Coffin: Mobile, Music & Windows
Last week, Microsoft announced that CEO Steve Ballmer would be stepping down within the next 12 months, or as soon as the special committee, led by John Thompson, found his replacement. Some have already…
Making the Transition to Managed Services Successfully
History is filled with stories of seemingly great partnerships gone bad. After leading Roman slaves in a revolt that resulted in their freedom, Spartacus and Crixus argued on what to do next and parted…
Big Data Security – How To Improve Your Network Protection
Today’s businesses not only face threats from outside cyber predators, but are at risk from inside jobs as well. Earlier this year we learned about the risks of security systems built around a forensic…
#VMWorld 2013 Round-Up : VMWare + OpenStack Take Center Stage
By Ryan Cox
VMWorld 2013 kicked off last night, and the huge event is packed with storylines. What will we hear from Pivotal? Is Pat Gelsinger safe as CEO? What is his open source agenda? But the bell…
Lenovo Takes the Offensive : Unveils Private Cloud Reference Architecture @ #VMworld
Lenovo made a splash at this week’s VMworld 2013 conference with a cost-effective private cloud reference architecture for small- and medium-sized (SMB) businesses. The newly announced specification marries EMC’s Intel-based VNX storage systems with…