How Apple Influenced Retail
If you want an Apple product, where’s the first place you go to? An Apple Store. There are hundreds of them scattered all over the world, and this has given them the edge over…
Big Data Tells You What To Do In A Hurricane
If you happen to live in Louisiana, Alabama or Mississippi, you could be forgiven for waking up slightly alarmed this morning at the news that Tropical Storm Isaac is heading your way, with experts…
Samsung Vows to Counter-Sue Apple, Protect Company
An internal memo regarding the jury verdict in California was released on Samsung’s Global Blog. The memo reflects the company’s position on the verdict and vows to counter-sue for the protection of the company. …
Actifio’s PAS 20T Makes Copy Data Software Affordable For All
By Amber Harris
Actifio launched its new PAS (Protection and Availability Storage) 20T, which was designed to be affordable and easy to use, even for single person IT shops. PAS 20T is a single application that allows…
Xbox 720 – Azure How Windows 8, Apps and Online Gaming Could Transform the Xbox
Continuing with the analysis of a possible cloud-based Xbox platform, we turn the spotlight on Windows Azure. As we last mentioned, we must consider the role of Dave Cutler, lead developer for so many…
4 Top Tips for IT Services Management
IT Services Management – ITSM for short – is de riguer for most companies with more than a handful of connected employees. Our wired world means processes, policies, and most of all support are…
It’s Official: Avamar In, vSphere Data Recovery Out
Earlier this month sources in the channel leaked that EMC and VMware will make a move to align their data center software agendas by integrating the storage vendor’s Avamar DR software with the 5.1…
Romney Uses Data-Mining Service, Targets Democrat Donors
Last week, we featured the story regarding Barack Obama and Mitt Romney’s plans to start accepting donations via text messages, and other political efforts that involve social media. Now we’ll take a look at…
Free VPN Service rolls out on The Pirate Bay
The Swedish file-sharing bit torrent site, The Pirate Bay reportedly released an ad-supported VPN service today. Known as Privitize VPN, the service is free and subsidized through the installation of the Babylon search bar,…
Caching in Flash the Wrong Approach Argues Hybrid Storage Vendors
“Caching data in flash is not the right approach,” said hybrid storage vendor Tintri CEO Kieran Harty at the start of a panel discussion in the Cube at VMworld 2012. “Ninety-nine percent of reads…