New Nook HD vs. Kindle Fire HD and the iPad
Yes, there are two new tablets in town: Barnes & Noble’s NOOK HD and NOOK HD+. The broadening family of Nook tablets is a clear move to compete with Amazon, which already has an…
Oracle OpenWorld 2011 Recap: Then and Now
Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is just around the corner, and now is a good opportunity to look back on last year’s event and reflect on the direction Larry Ellison’s company has taken since. One of…
New Pinterest Tool Helps You Buy the Things You Love
Pinterest has established itself very well in the social media world, and as it becomes a true beacon for consumer intent, Pinterest’s business model must reflect this. Several startups and ad firms have already…
HP Lands Storage Deal with NZ Gaming Group
New Zealand’s SKYCITY Entertainment is in the process of implementing HP Converged Infrastructure to accommodate users across its international network, according to a new case study. The group operates several casinos in New Zealand and Australia…
Barnes&Noble Unveils 2 New Nook HD Tablets
Today’s mobile news roundup features: Barnes & Noble introducing two new HD Nook tablets; RIM’s plans to launch BlackBerry 10 devices worldwide, Samsung addressing killer code with an update; and Toys ‘R’ Us getting…
ZeroAccess Botnet Commands One Million Zombie Army
By Isha Suri
A new research report by Sophos has revealed that the ZeroAccess Botnet has over 1 million zombie computers in an army that can earn a staggering amount of $100,000 in a single day. The…
Massive Online Learning: 10gen and MongoDB Teach the World
10gen, a provider of cloud services and consultancy for the MongoDB NoSQL database, is working on training courses that will be available to developers worldwide starting October. The massively open online courses, or MOOCs,…
Microsoft Punches Back: Responds To Scathing NY Times Article on Cloud Factories – Our Summary
By John Furrier
Microsoft responses to the NY Times article (series) called Cloud Factories. Here was my response yesterday on SiliconANGLE. New York Times took a cheap shot at Microsoft on a story saying Microsoft was…
How to Scale Out Networking in the Cloud: The Case for Overlay-based Network Virtualization
By Guest Author
So, you’ve decided to build a private IaaS cloud. Great idea! By encouraging self-service IT in your organization, you’ve made your support staff happier by reducing their workload and you’ve made your users happier…
Virtualization Changes the Game; but IT is Still Tops!
By Isha Suri
Over the past few years, we have seen the cloud and the virtualization radically changing the IT world. It has driven significant changes in the way we store data, handle it, harness it, and…