EMC Launches New Product, Pulls VMware Closer
EMC had a couple of big updates this week, including the launch of a storage product first unveiled in May, and an update from VMware that could have a big impact on the virtualization…
Piston Cloud Unveils Free, Easy OpenStack Distro For Internal IT
Piston Cloud’s flagship offering is Enterprise OpenStack, a tweaked up distribution of the increasingly popular open-source cloud platform. The only problem is that if you don’t happen to be deploying on a very large…
Ness Grabs $15m; Plans To Take Personalized Search To The Next Level
Ness Computing, the Silicon Valley-based startup responsible for the popular iPhone restaurant-finder app Ness, has just received backing to the tune of $15 million in Series B funding from a number of partners, including…
Dell Struggles with Losses as Transition to Enterprise Continues
Dell is experiencing hell right now, as the PC maker’s second quarter revenues slipped by 8%, a performance that was much worse than anticipated. Revenues totaled $14.5 billion, down from the $15.7 billion it…
Cybersecurity and the Datacenter – Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday
Today’s datacenter is in the crosshairs under constant demands of modern business, meaning uninterrupted, secure 24/7 operation. One of the biggest threats to that constant operation is the constant challenge of security. Well publicized…
CloudPhysics Works Big Data for Managing Complex, Virtual Environments
Data center virtualization creates compelling financial advantages mainly by increasing average server utilization from an average of 15% in non-virtualized environments to 85%+. However, it also has created increasingly complex environments as virtualization grows…
Consultancies Face Pressure as IT Shifts from Utility to Business Technology
In light of all the technology changes that are sweeping through the enterprise today, the role of IT consultancies and services providers is changing. Edward Haigh of Computer Weekly reflected on the trends that…
Accenture Rolls Out General Fund Enterprise Business System
IT consultancy Accenture has recently completed the deployment of the General Fund Enterprise Business System, one of the largest enterprise resource planning setups in the world. The GFEBS will be used to handle the Army’s…
HP Expected To Post $9B Quarterly Loss, Holds Focus on Services and Tablets
Hewlett-Packard’s CEO Meg Whitman is doing her best to keep her company afloat but it seems like HP just can’t get a break. They’re expected to post a major quarterly loss after the stock…
Three Alternatives to Amazon Glacier
This week, Amazon Web Services rocked the longterm mission-critical data backup market with the launch of Amazon Glacier, an extremely-low-cost, purposely-low-performance, high-durability cloud storage offering that’s gunning for those enterprises that are still using…