4 Reasons Why Dell Bought Force 10
Why did Dell buy Force 10? The analysis so far shows Dell ‘s strategy to build data centers based upon a stack that integrates servers, networking, storage and is powered by virtualization. Here are…
eBay Revenue is Up, Profit’s Down
eBay reported its results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011 today. The company has seen a strong revenue increase at $2.8 billion, or 25 percent more than in the same period last…
Police Use of iPhone Iris Scanners Raise Privacy Concerns
Biometric” technology, which is a topic adored by sci-fi writers and fans alike, has found a real-world implementation with law enforcement. Dozens of police departments nationwide are gearing up to use a tech company’s…
Pegmo’s Creative Soup to Soul-cial Media Marketing
During my last trip back home I got to catch up with Pegmo, a company I’ve been following for a little while now. They’re brand new, entering the social goods market on a few…
Greenplum is Gold: Pushes EMC’s Q2 Profits, Shines with Exadata Update
By Cherr Aira
Big data poses immeasurable challenges and opportunities to the IT world. Leading companies are looking to maximize their position against accelerating demand to manage information. EMC, one of the global leaders in IT infrastructure…
Google Uses Data to Get Ahead of Malware, Intercepts Browser Attacks
Google has rolled out a new notification for its search engine that will detect whether not a user’s connection is being intercepted. In case a user’s computer is infected with a type of malware…
Dell Doesn’t Want Brocade, Buys Force10 to Scale Out Switches Market
As 2011 proves to be the year of mergers and acquisitions in the networking space, Dell has set its eyes on Force10 Networks, an Ethernet networking supplier. At the moment, details of the acquisition…
Amazon Cuts Deal with CBS and Follows the Lead of Netflix
Amazon is directly competing with Netflix and other content streaming services with Amazon Prime. Today the company took a significant leap forward and signed a non-exclusive agreement with CBS to offer 2,000 episodes of…
Cisco’s Business Continuity Plan: SecureX, Video and Social Technology
By Saroj Kar
This week Cisco confirmed its plans to layoff 9 percent of its workforce (6,500 jobs) and to reduce its operating cost by about $1 billion to streamline and focus on the core businesses. Cisco…
HD as a Service – Lifesize Goes for Mobile Video Conferencing
High definition video conferencing is a cloud service just emerging as a way to reduce the complexity of an ever infinite number of end ponts. We see this with online storage services that connect…