Did Microsoft Just Blow Up the Channel?
Microsoft blew up the channel this week. They changed their business model. With Microsoft Surface, they now compete with the channel. And that’s a good thing. But do the channel partners have any choice?…
Facebook Boosting Its Edge Network, Rethinking Data Center Design
Facebook has decided that its photo delivery needs to get even faster, and is building out its own edge network infrastructure to get there. That nugget comes from the GigaOM Structure conference by Facebook…
“Cascading Bug” Bites Twitter Drawing the Wrath of the Fail Whale
By Kyt Dotson
Today a lot of Twitter users found themselves unable to access their tweets and retweet their friends after Twitter suffered a bug that caused it to become intermittently inaccessible to their users. The fail…
These Hotspot Security Tools Address Leaky Data Problems
According to a recent poll done by the Washington Post, 40% of their sample population takes precautions when using public WiFi, 22% never use a public WiFi at all, and a stunning 37% take…
Sepaton Releases New Data Backup and Protection Solution
Sepaton, which specialized in disk-based data protection solutions, has released new software for backing up and restoring large databases. The new solution, DeltaStor DBeXstream, supports simultaneous deduplication and parallel processing across multiple ports, which…
Security Loopholes in Face.com App Allows Hijack of Facebook, Twitter Accounts
By Isha Suri
Face.com, the Israel-based facial recognition maker, and the recent acquisition of Facebook, has suffered a big security flaw in its functionality, resulting in hijacking of the Facebook and Twitter accounts of users. The popular Face.com…
Be Not Afraid, But Big Data Analytics is a Game of Risk
The definition of insanity, so said Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. That applies to life, love and, yes, Big Data Analytics. Think about it.…
Xbox 720 Leak Confuses Press While Microsoft Uses Copyright to Suppress Document
By Kyt Dotson
Over the weekend a strange document leaked from Microsoft that quickly spread into numerous cloud storage venues outlining a long-term plan for the Xbox 720. The video game console giant was extremely slow to…
Garantia’s New In-Memory NoSQL Service
Garantia Data is an emerging startup that is among the 11 finalists of this week’s GigaOM Structure LaunchPad competition, and it brings a rather interesting new cloud service to the table. Garantia’s product targets Memcached…
IBM Leads the Enterprise Social Market
IDC’s latest research has found that IBM leads the global market for enterprise social software for the third consecutive year. IBM has more market share than any other vendor based on its 2011 revenue.…