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VMware’s Former CTO Stephen Herrod on Software-Led Infrastructure: Fodder for His New Gig

By Maria Deutscher Jan 17, 2013

General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in early stage tech startups, nabbed VMware CTO and SVP of research Stephen Herrod. The Stanford-educated executive joined the virtualization giant in 2002, helping to…

Swedish School Makes Minecraft Compulsory for Classrooms

By Isha Suri Jan 17, 2013

Games are an amazing way of educating yourself and boosting creativity. Exactly is true for the renowned Minecraft game, and that’s why a Swedish school has made Minecraft a compulsory addition to the curriculum…

Facebook’s Open Compute Shapes the Future of Big Data Servers

By Mike Wheatley Jan 17, 2013

When a company grows to the size that Facebook has, vendors no longer get to dictate the specs of its server acquisitions. Instead, the boot is on the other foot Facebook gets to determine…

Tokutek Meets the Big Data Challenge, Doubles Users in 2012

By Maria Deutscher Jan 17, 2013

MySQL developer Tokutek boasts that its customer base grew by 200 percent last year, a statistic it credits to rapidly accelerating adoption of its TokuDB database engine. The company landed lucrative deals with Evidenzia,…

Fusion-io Launched New Hyperscale Flash Product to Scale Data Centers for Enterprises, Not Just Facebook

By John Furrier Jan 17, 2013

Two years ago I wrote about Facebook’s infrastructure would be the model for infrastructure of all enterprise information technology environments. That post was an effort to explain (at the time) why SiliconANGLE was bullish…

Is RIM All Set for Jan. 30th Big Reveal?

By Mellisa Tolentino Jan 17, 2013

The world awaits January 30, 2013 – the day when Research in Motion is set to unveil two new BlackBerry 10 devices. We’ve come to expect manufacturers to release new devices at least once…

AMD Launches Facebook-Inspired Motherboard for Enterprise Workloads

By Maria Deutscher Jan 17, 2013

AMD is rolling out a new motherboard designed to run inside specialized servers purpose-built for specific workloads. The Open 3.0 chipset, codenamed Roadrunner, couples speedy processes with design methodologies developed by one of the…

Facebook Messenger Now Has Free Phone Calls in Lieu of a Smartphone

By Mellisa Tolentino Jan 17, 2013

In today’s mobile news roundup: Facebook offers free voice calls for iPhones in the US; Nokia cuts 200 jobs; there’s a new slim activity tracker for health-conscious people; and the next Samsung Galaxy Note…

New Java Flaw Discovered, Selling for $5K on Black Web

By Mike Wheatley Jan 17, 2013

Oh dear, oh dear. Oracle must think it’s experiencing a bad case of déjà vu right now – just days after it released a patch for a ‘serious’ vulnerability discovered in its Java software…

How Big Data Will Impact IT Spending in 2013

By Saroj Kar Jan 17, 2013

While information technology is synonymous with change, it seems change never happened so quickly. Over the last few years, cloud computing and mobility have become widespread, while social networks and analytics have penetrated all…

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VMware’s Former CTO Stephen Herrod on Software-Led Infrastructure: Fodder for His New Gig

Swedish School Makes Minecraft Compulsory for Classrooms

Facebook’s Open Compute Shapes the Future of Big Data Servers

Tokutek Meets the Big Data Challenge, Doubles Users in 2012

Fusion-io Launched New Hyperscale Flash Product to Scale Data Centers for Enterprises, Not Just Facebook

Is RIM All Set for Jan. 30th Big Reveal?

AMD Launches Facebook-Inspired Motherboard for Enterprise Workloads

Facebook Messenger Now Has Free Phone Calls in Lieu of a Smartphone

New Java Flaw Discovered, Selling for $5K on Black Web

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