Permabit Hires New VP of Sales
Permabit is the company behind the Albireo deduplication software that’s touted as being miles ahead of the competition in terms of speed – a claim that is backed up by several studies over the…
VCE Enhances Desktop Virtualization Automation Solution FastPath
VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company created by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware in 2010, announced several enhancements to its virtualization management and automation solution, VCE Vblock FastPath. VCE Vblock FastPath Desktop…
Linus Torvalds to Nvidia: “F**K You!”
Linus Torvalds is definitely one of the toughest characters you will find in the tech world. Linux would not be what it is today without Torvalds and the passion he brings to the open-source…
This Week in Big Data: Hadoop Summit, AvatarNode
This week Yahoo and Hortonworks, a spin-off from the internet portal operator, hosted the fifth annual Hadoop Summit. The press floodgates were opened even before the vendors had a chance to settle in their…
A Real Customer Perspective of Dell’s Storage Strategy
The Cube’s Stu Miniman interviewed Dell customer and member of Dell influencer program, Roger Lund a Senior System Administrator for the Array Services Group, at the second annual Dell Storage Forum (part I of interview…
Juniper’s New QFabric Arrives as Networking Firm Buys Back $1B in Stock
The hype around Juniper Networks’ QFabric architecture was pretty intensive when it launched last year: the concept of simplifying the networking and consolidating the different layers had, and still has a lot of appeal.…
Former Judge Aids EFF In Retrieving Megaupload User Files
Most of us have moved to the cloud–we put our most precious data, photos, videos, files, in the cloud like it’s a bank where we put our money in. But there’s a huge difference.…
What We Learned From The Amazon Web Services Apocalypse
By now, you’ve no doubt heard about yesterday’s Amazon Web Services outage (tracked on Twitter with the inauspicious hashtag #AWSpocalypse), during which a power outage disrupted cloud service delivery from its Northern Virginia data center,…
Network Virtualization: the Next Big Thing in Transforming IT Infrastructure
With servers and storage well into the process of virtualization, networks are next, Wikibon CTO David Floyer advises Cisco CEO John Chambers in his latest Alert, “Network Virtualization – Transition or Transformation?”. The increasing…
Intel Eyes More Internet-Connected Devices
By Saroj Kar
Intel Corp., arguably the largest chipmaker in the world, is considering creating an increasing number of internet connected device ecosystems, such as home entertainment, for major growth opportunities. The company’s chief financial officer, Stacy…