Good Riddance, Steve Jobs
One year on from Steve Job’s death and yet again we see the fanboy crowd come out in full force, stampeding over each other in their desperation to lavish praise on their hero as…
Oracle OpenWorld: EMC Storage Experts Discuss Backup and Recovery Systems
Backup and recovery systems (BRS) can make or break a business depending on their success or failure, according to two EMC storage experts who spoke on The Cube recently. At Oracle OpenWorld, The Cube…
Enterprise Mobility Emerges as Key Oracle OpenWorld Theme
Oracle’s massive love fest, OpenWorld, has concluded. Mobile was clearly one of the key themes at the conference with everal other vendors announcing new mobile products and features. Oracle led by announcing three new…
EMC CTO Lineup Change a Big Data Strategy – Does This Lead to Cloud Foundry
Some lineup changes at EMC indicate that some big things are on tap for the company’s Big Data goals and beyond. John Roese, a twenty-year IT industry veteran has joined EMC as CTO. His…
Flash is Mainstream Now, but Here’s the Next Step for LSI
At the Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Wikibon cofounder and senior analyst Dave Vellante noted that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has been consistently hitting on the topic of Flash. LSI Principal Technical Marketing Manager Jamon Bowen…
Quantcast Open-Sources HDFS Alternative
Audience measurement software maker Quantcast just made a very notable contribution to the open-source community – it released the Quantcast File System (QFS), a “higher performance alternative” for the Hadoop Distributed File System. QFS…
Keccak Chosen as SHA-3 Competition Winner, But Will Take Years To Make Its Mark
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finally chosen a replacement for one of the most widely-used computer security algorithms, following a five year contest among the world’s leading cryptographers. NIST hopes…
Xbox Election 2012 Hub Goes Into Operation During Debates, Reviews Well [UPDATED]
By Kyt Dotson
With the US Presidential election closing in, Microsoft’s bid to provide a new form of interactive polling, the Election 2012 hub for Xbox has started to promote questions about the recent debates. Every night…
Data Centers: Issues and Innovations on the Influence of Social Networks
By Saroj Kar
Rising use of social networks, rising energy costs, and a need to understand new technology such as virtualization and cloud computing are among the top issue IT leaders face in the ever evolving data…
ZocDoc “Checks In” So You Can Check Out Faster
ZocDoc, the web-based medical booking platform that allows users to find and book appointments with doctors online, has added a new feature to its service that aims to speed up the whole ‘checking in’…