Humanization of Tech: Infographic
Technology’s purpose has always been to increase productivity. If we look back in history, new tools are not exactly the easiest to handle but people capitalize on them with sweat and time in order…
Android 4.0/Ice Cream Sandwich Open Sourced, But is Google Still Open Washing?
By Klint Finley
Google has released the code Android 4.0, better known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Google delayed releasing the code for Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), which criticism from some open source advocates. The acquisition of Motorola furthered…
Siri’s Cousin Trapit Launches AI Search Assistant
From the same artificial intelligence platform as Siri comes its cousin Trapit, a personalized web search tool powered by one of today’s most popular technologies. It launches its public beta today, letting in the…
Dell’s Take on I/O in the Cloud Datacenter
Dell recently released a case study about NIC partitioning (NPAR), a method that splits an Ethernet port into four virtual ports and consequently saves PCI Express (PCIe) slots. It also lets admins to provision bandwidth…
A Gorgeous Time Map Unconcerned About Distance
I can care less about the distance when I take the bus across town. I am far more interested in how long it will take me to travel the ten miles from my home…
Salesforce.com Acquires Cloud Consulting Company Model Metrics
By Klint Finley
At Dreamforce this year Salesforce.com executives said the company is taking a more consultative role. The company is making good on that promise today with an agreement to acquire Model Metrics, a social cloud…
Nutanix Shows Off Its Fusion-Power
Scale-out SAN appliance maker Nutanix demonstrated the performance of its Fusion ioMemory-powered Nutanix Complete Cluster in 50-node benchmark. Each node was equipped with a 320 GB ioDrive. This marks the latest milestone for Fusion-io, a…
Survey: Nearly Half of Businesses Received No Leads from Social Media Campaigns
By Klint Finley
Last week I mentioned I was a bit grouchy about the failures of social business. Here’s an example of why: 42% of the respondents haven’t generated any leads from their social media campaigns, according…
Datacenter Virtualization: It’s Complicated
Companies are virtualizing to optimize their hardware resources, lowering the number of servers and consequently power needed to run jobs. Virtualization can also boost overall efficiency beyond just lowered costs, to include an increase…
Windows Embed is Latest Big Data Outlet for Microsoft
By Isha Suri
Microsoft is fleshing out its new Big Data strategy, paving its way to the land of Big Data opportunity. Taking its efforts in the right direction, Microsoft is looking at its Windows Embedded group to…