Music Madness, from iTunes Match to Android Piracy
As Google Music nears its full launch and rumors of a new Store flood the headlines, other music services are spicing things up to keep their edge as well. While Google’s leaked hints of…
Nirvanix Wins Massive 8 Petabyte Private Cloud Deal from USC – Validates Cloud Storage
By John Furrier
The last 30 days for Nirvanix have been on fire—first the big-scale OEM deal with IBM Global Services, then the announcement that Cerner Healthcare was deploying a 3 petabyte private cloud and today news…
ScaleXtreme Adds to Cloud Management Platform
ScaleXtreme has launched Dynamic Server Assembly into general availability, a new feature that’s now included in its ScaleXtreme Xpress and ScaleXtreme Xpert cloud software. The solution, which is available in both a free and a premium edition, aims…
The Stakes are High in the Hadoop Distribution Race
A few weeks back I wrote that the focus in the Hadoop community was shifting from the infrastructure layer – the plumbing, if you will – to the analytics and application layers. That premise…
Juniper All Set to Fight Sluggish Economy, Says CEO
By Isha Suri
Kevin Johnson who joined Juniper Networks almost three years back, is quite optimistic about the company’s performance, even in these sluggish economic conditions. Juniper – the world’s second largest maker of Internet routers after…
Bright Future for Online Video Ads at BrightRoll: $30M Round
By Cherr Aira
The best is yet to come for online video advertising, especially with mobile ads catching a powerful triple digit growth rate this year. The holiday season is looking pretty good for online ads as well.…
Facebook Gore-Porn Account Hijacking Epidemic Reaches a Fever Pitch
By Kyt Dotson
It’s as if the circus of pornographic horrors has marched into the hallowed, staid halls of Facebook, painting over the frescoes and setting up shops of debauchery on every corner. A new exploit, slowly…
Blowout Big Data: wonderMode’s Fashionable BI Marketplace
Interest is rising in business intelligence applications, and when it comes to putting big data to use, the retail industry is fair game, especially this time of year. An Aberdeen Group Business Intelligence Senior…
Game Lab: A New Fund for the Open Web Game Ecosystem
By Klint Finley
Boston based venture capital firm Atlas Venture and consulting firm Bocoup have launched Game Lab, a new fund for companies building technologies that will advance the development of video games with HMTL5 on the…
Super Size Me – Amazon Web Services Launches “Extra Large” Supercomputer Clusters in the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a new high performance computing instance and it’s a big one. In a blog post this morning, Jeff Barr of AWS described an instance that advances the idea of…