Nordic Game Indie Night Spurs Interest and Development
The curtain is raised and the spotlight is focused on the eight games to be showcased for the Swedish-based games festival, Nordic Games Indie Night. The feature and showdown will be on May 10,…
Akamai Taps Riverbed to Make Hybrid Cloud Seamless
When it comes to the progression of cloud computing, speed is a major factor in these days of immediacy. Akamai’s well aware of culture’s growing demand in this arena, providing cloud optimization services that…
EMC’s Sustainability in the Cloud: On Going Green, New Data Centers and Energy Efficiency
By Cherr Aira
Sustainability in the cloud has always been one of EMC’s biggest quests. The company’s relentless efforts to pioneer products and services, strategic acquisitions and big partnerships that differentiate them from the likes of IBM…
Clearspring’s $20M Data Dive: Fresh Funds, Big Plans
Clearspring’s been steadily expanding on its foundation for well over a year now, so it wasn’t surprising to hear they’d raised $20 million in a Series D round of funding. Led by IVP, with…
Your Corporate Bohemian Days Are Over: LiquidSpace Raises $3.6M
We first heard about LiquidSpace during SxSW, when they debuted their mobile app, a tool that helps anyone find a place to get some work done. They’ve now raised $3.6 million in their first…
Microsoft to Buy Skype for $7 Billion?
There is a growing rumor that Microsoft is in final stages of negotiations to acquire Skype. Paul O’Flaherty and I discussed the rumor in today’s Daily Brief but at that point it was still…
Tom Roloff Talks About Big Data and Cloud Enterprise Solutions
By Kyt Dotson
Recently, Dave Vellante of Wikibon and John Furrier of SiliconANGLE got a chance to interview Tom Roloff, Senior VP of EMC Consulting, in theCube at EMC World 2011. Roloff heads up EMC’s information-centric expertise…
The Cloud is Driving Disruption and Opportunity
The very nature of enterprise data is changing, and the cloud is driving a wave of disruption through the technology industry, says Sujal Patel, founder of scalable, clustered storage system developer Isilon. As a…
The Cloud and Consumerization are Creating a Computing Inflection Point
The cloud, virtualization, and the consumerization of computing and of people’s expectations are driving an inflection point at least as great as the PC Revolution of the 1980s, when computing power first got into…
Hadoop Seeing a Surge of New Products at EMC World 2011 from Greenplum to Brisk
By Kyt Dotson
EMC World 2011 is casting the umbra of Big Data and the Cloud over Las Vegas today and Hadoop has taken its usual front-and-center stage in the spotlight. Amid announcements of EMC’s own addition…