iA Writer for iPad Tops This Week’s Tablet Business Apps
Quite a few interesting apps made it to this roundup this week, including two new launches and one writing app that’s set out to draw it’s own path. iA Writer is a steal for…
This Week in Big Data: Cheaper Hardware, A New Hadoop Alternative and Funding to Go Round
Another week of stand out big data updates. The first one comes from a European firm named Compuverde, which unveiled new software that makes analytics more viable for enterprises. Organizations want the level of…
Apple-Samsung verdict – What’s a Billion Dollars Anyway?
Apple vs Samsung is in the books (Round 1) – with a victory for Apple and a 1.05 billion dollar damage ruling to boot. Meanwhile in South Korea, a court there went the split decision…
Strong Earnings Prompt Salesforce to Increase Sales Outlook
By Amber Harris
Salesforce is living up to its name with its second quarter. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) giant’s results were better than anticipated, mostly due to all of the enterprise deals the company has been managing to…
Pose for the Picture: Veeam Introduces Explorer SAN Snapshots
By Amber Harris
Are you part of the lucky group of hard working people that have the leisure to work from home? You get to sit at your computer and work with Dr. Phil on the TV…
This Week in the Cloud: OpenStack, Backup and AWS Glacier
A lot of updates from the cloud crossed the wire this week, including one big advancement for the OpenStack community. Piston Cloud, a distributor of the cloud OS, unveiled a simplified version of OpenStack…
Facebook’s Secret Project To Contain It’s Big Data
The amount of big data that Facebook handles never ceases to amaze. At a subdued press conference this week, attended by only a few reporters, the social media giant revealed a whole host of…
NetApp Misses the Strategic Direction with Read-Only Flash Cache
NetApp’s August 21 Flash Accel read-only flash cache announcement is good as far as it goes, but it is a tactical product that misses strategic direction, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest…
What Day Can You Expect the Grim Reaper to Show Up? Big Data Knows
By Amber Harris
It appears we can all have a chance to put out the Welcome mats and prepare for the Grim Reaper’s visit because we will know exactly when he will come knocking on our doors.…
Wake Up Call: VMware Must Move Beyond the Usual Suspects for New Storage Ideas
The just-published Wikibon vSphere 5 adoption survey holds good news for EMC but a warning for VMware. Market interest in traditional storage vendors is waning, and while companies are not leaving their primary vendor,…