Nirvanix Lands Cloud Deal with Fox
Fox Networks Group, the subsidiary in charge of operations for the Fox Entertainment Group, chose cloud storage startup Nirvanix to power a big portion of its internal IT. The media giant will use Nirvanix’s…
What Happened to OnLive? Cloud Gaming Outfit Closes Up Shop and Evaporates
By Kyt Dotson
Friday last week wasn’t much of a TGIF for cloud-based gaming company OnLive employees as the company laid off its entire staff and closed its doors. According to an article in Polygon this caught…
Looking Back at VMworld 2011: Did the Vision of Security and Flash Come True?
VMworld 2012 is just a week away, and now is a good opportunity to reflect on what came out of the gathering – one of the largest annual conferences in IT – last year.…
Hear from Citrix Engineer, VMware Author at Live Wikibon Event Tomorrow
Wikibon is once again holding their Peer Incite tomorrow, August 21. Peer Incite is a research meeting held periodically wherein “a guest presenter(s) is prompted by the moderator and delivers a 10-15 minute introductory…
How One Massive School District Gets Efficient with EMC
EMC’s VNX unified storage and DataDomain deduplication technology are being used by The Toronto District School Board, the fourth largest district in North America, to achieve greater operational efficiency. TDSB supports 6,000 schools that…
B&N Nook Heads to UK as iPad Mini Hype Grows
It’s been quite a while since we took a look at what OEMs have to offer in the tablet market, and as Apple’s press event nears, the industry is taking measures to prepare for…
Tween Girls Would Rather Play Games Online than Talk on the Phone
By Saroj Kar
We all know teen girls run the commercial world, and now they’ve all but taken over online gaming. Newzoo, the international full service market research and consulting firm completely focused on the games industry,…
Motorola Files New Patent Claims Against Apple
Today’s mobile news roundup features: Motorola filing new patent claim against Apple; Apple-Samsung trial nears end; HTC’s $40M investment loss; and Eva Restaurant offering discounts for checking your phone at the door. Motorola files…
Google’s Dremel: Here Comes A New Challenger To YARN/Hadoop
YARN – the fledgling next-gen MapReduce subproject to the incredibly popular Apache Hadoop big data platform – may already have some competition as Dremel, an analytics platform borne in Google’s labs, picks up steam,…
This Week in Big Data: Symantec’s Hadoop Play, the Presidential Race and More
There were a few big updates coming out of the big data ecosystem this week. Symantec upped its investment in analytics by launching an add-on for its Cluster File System that works with HortonWorks’…