Why EMC is Making its Hadoop Move
In our view, EMC is making its move in the commercial Hadoop market at this time for four primary reasons: #1. To reestablish its strategic position on Wall Street as a growth company by…
Mike Arrington Responds To His Critics
By Tom Foremski
Mike Arrington, Editor of Techcrunch, responded to his critics yesterday. In his post he said he would continue to make investments and that everyone in Silicon Valley is conflicted in one way or another.…
EMC Enters Commercial Hadoop Market with Greenplum HD Appliance
EMC’s entrance into the commercial Hadoop market is a low risk, potentially high reward move by the Hopkinton, Mass.-based storage vendor, as the market for Big Data processing and analytics technologies could reach into…
EMC World 2011 Conference Kicks Off at Las Vegas
By Isha Suri
The much awaited EMC World 2011 Conference has kicks off today at The Venetian in Las Vegas with the theme of “Cloud Meets Big Data.” The event is 11th in the series and has…
Microsoft Releases a Training Kit for Visual Basic and .NET
When it comes to developing applications for the Windows platform, the king of the mountain when it comes to developer tools has to be Visual Studio. However, one of the things about Visual Studio,…
Dell Unleashes PowerEdge M915 blade, a New Four-socket Blade
Dell's doing a great deal to move into the cloud services industry, and it latest development is the launch of a four-socket blade server with up to 48 processor cores, tagging high hopes of…
PlayStation Network Still Down, Ups the Ante for Users with Identity Theft Insurance
By Kyt Dotson
Thousands of TVs and controllers that would otherwise be playing Call of Duty and Killzone are still stranded as this weekend Sony delayed the restart of gaming services on PlayStation Network yet again. The…
EMC, Others Color the Cloud Green
Tech companies have a bazillion reasons to go green: insanely high energy outlays, stern environment regulations, the demand for bigger data centers to respond to growing business demands, Greenpeace chasing “un-eco-friendly” companies like crazy…
LinkedIn IPO Details Revealed
Shares of LinkedIn, a Mountain View, Calif., company, which operates a professional online network with more than 100 million members, are expected to begin public trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) May…
Cloud Sector Takes On Open Source as EMC World Kicks Off
This past week in the cloud had its fair share of news and updates, especially when it comes to open cloud initiatives. This field has become so attractive it not only spurred OpenStack and…