Will Apple iCloud, iOS 5 be Worth the Hype?
Apple made some serious announcements at WWDC 2011, as always. The new software from Apple, including Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud, will be released this fall. And in addition to just…
Dell Building Credibility as Platform-Agnostic Services Vendor
Taking a page from IBM’s book, Dell is building a platform-agnostic services business, says Dell Director of SMB Business Tony Parkinson, but where IBM focuses on large enterprises, Dell is focusing on SMBs. “Really…
Personal Cloud Reigns for Apple, Microsoft Kinect
Not too long ago, giving users the ability to access data anytime, anywhere via approved devices a.k.a. cloud computing, was just an idea. More than anything, Apple has pretty much positioned itself for this…
Myth # 5 of the Good-Enough Network: “Basic Warranty” Myth
By Michael Rau
Editor’s Note: This is a post by Michael Rau, Vice President, CTO, for the Borderless Network Architecture Cisco. Last weekend, I bought a laptop. Before I decided on which model I wanted, I visited…
E3: Nintendo Wii-U First Impressions—Game Changing?
By Kyt Dotson
Today Nintendo stepped out at E3 2011 and revealed their “next-gen” console, which is really a controller-peripheral called the Wii-U. From its initial looks, the Wii-U appears to be an oversized controller-cum-tablet (with a…
HP Discover Day 1: Cloud, Mobile and Big Data, and Literally Everything in Between
Hewlett-Packard is trying to reposition itself as more than just a hardware company, and it seems that while doing so, the company has adopted itself an agenda for just about every trend in IT…
Xbox LIVE’s Feet Staying on the Ground but Head Firmly Thrust into the Personal Cloud
By Kyt Dotson
Yesterday, Microsoft’s press event at E3 revealed a new direction they intend to take the Xbox—into the realm of becoming an Internet entertainment center—but also away from trapping all of their content on that…
Infineta Puts New Tech in Big Data, Optimizes WAN Interactions
There’s a lot of changes stirring about the cloud, and as the enterprise furthers its transition to virtualized services, even eliminating hardware in some cases, optimization is key. Bridging the standards that got us…
Really New New Xbox Experience Debuts at E3
By Kyt Dotson
What does Microsoft have up its sleeve for E3? So far, we’ve been given hints of the New Xbox Experience, which is something like the previous New Xbox Experience, except with live TV, YouTube,…
David Scott at HP Discover: Cloud is Here to Stay, and Service Providers Need Best-of-Breed IT
The debate about whether cloud is going to become a significant part of the future of computing has almost ended now, said David Scott, HP Storage Senior Vice-President and former CEO of 3PAR, HP’s…