OpenStack Gains Traction in Australia
Australia is becoming an emerging hub of expansion for OpenStack, as the open source cloud platform has gained significant traction in the country. The young cloud market in Australia is ripe for the picking,…
A Closer Look at AWS Efficiency: Is Your Cloud Working Smarter or Harder?
By Saroj Kar
Amazon Web Services (AWS) dominates the public cloud computing space, commanding more than 60 percent of market share and over one trillion data objects stored. But being accustomed to physical products whose installation and…
Xbox LIVE Goes Political with Real-Time Polling Capability for the 2012 Elections
By Kyt Dotson
Microsoft is seeking to become the first limb of the future AllThing (a political body that consisted of the voting minds of an entire population seen in Dan Simmons’s Hyperion) by putting the ability…
SSD Storage, Virtualization Demand Converged Infrastructure says HP’s Nunes
“When you look at what flash is doing to storage and how virtualization changes the data center, how can it not be converged?” asked HP VP of Storage Marketing Craig Nunes in the Cube…
Savvis Collaborates with the Channel to Offer Wider Range of Services
Savvis is launching its new Enterprise Cloud Ecosystem Program today, which provides third party vendors with the tools they need to integrate their solutions with the company’s own line-up. Savvis is a cloud infrastructure…
Symantec, OpsCode Integrate with VMware @VMworld 2012
Security software maker Symantec and cloud automation provider OpsCode both announced tighter integration with VMware’s data center virtualization solutions today, just as the company’s annual event is kicking into higher gear. Symantec’s update is…
Samsung’s Galaxy Player 5.8: Biggest Media Player Yet, Biggest Waste Of Space
So far it’s business as usual for Samsung in the aftermath of its controversial court defeat to Apple last week. Seemingly undeterred, the Korean electronics firm has just announced the release of its whopping…
Problems Continue for Apple’s iCloud Service
Apple’s iCloud service has received mixed reviews from Apple customers who normally unconditionally love all Apple products. Those reviews have ranged from complete adoration to disgust, including one user who lost everything after an…
Nirvanix Teams Up with TwinStrata, Rounds Out Storage Offering
Cloud storage startup Nirvanix has aligned itself with TwinStrata to create an integrated solution that is more accessible for enterprises. The Nirvanix-CloudArray couples Nirvanix storage with Twin Strata’s CloudArray, a solution that makes it…
OnLive Owed Creditors $40 Million at the Time of Insolvency
By Isha Suri
OnLive, the pioneer of on-demand cloud gaming that declared its insolvency last week, has much more trouble to handle than originally known. The company was running short of funds at the time of insolvency,…