Fusion-io Launches Intelligent Virtualization VM Environments Fusion-io, a world leader in flash-based memory management, introduces a solution for increasing the performance of flash in virtual server environments. With an update of ioTurbine software, Fusion-io offered up to 40 times increased performance for applications in VM environments, doubling the number of VMs and unloading of SAN…
Attack-as-a-Service: Criminals in the Cloud It seems like the benefits of the cloud appeal not just to businesses but also to criminals, as there are now reports that cyber criminals who are using the cloud to generate new revenue streams and as a means of simplifying their infrastructure. In what can only be […] Related…
CenturyLink, a Louisiana TV, Voice and Internet provider announced its official acquisition of AppFog this week, a leading PaaS provider company in Oregon, Portland. The partnership will give birth to a new subsidiary and a merger with Savvis. This merger will create a premium cloud provider that will deliver managed hosting, outsourced IT services and…
VMware continues to be in a brawl with Red Hat over the cloud control. This originated over a conflict with a former employee, Tim Fox, the former lead apps developer of VMware who left the company last December 2012 to join Red Hat. The conflict began over the control of an open source project when…
Ovum: BYOD is Here to Stay Instead of trying to stop BYOD phenomena, companies must focus on helping employees of smartphones and tablets, says market research firm Ovum. According to the result of the “2013 BYOX – Bring Your Own Anything” survey, tablets are on rise in office. Trying to stand in the path of…
Hewlett Packard (HP) is ready to take the cloud on a new level as it explores a road no other cloud player has taken, even when it appears crazy to some. Some of the cloud plans include the Moonshot gear, Analytics-as-a-service and many other unusual ideas. With this new revamp, HP hopes to attract a…
Is Tumblr to Yahoo as YouTube is to Google? And so it came to be, Yahoo now owns the ultra hip social networking site Tumblr making David Karp one of, if not, the most successful high school drop out in the history of civilization. Some analysts see very little to no financial sense in the…
Google Release a Major Upgrade of Google Maps Google Maps is, perhaps, one of its most influential and groundbreaking services developed by Google. It’s up there with search and email. Suddenly, the world knew where to go without having to roll up their window to ask someone for direction. In true Google fashion, they have…
The software industry is undergoing major changes by trends such as cloud, software-as-a-service (SaaS), mobile technology and the “consumerization of IT”. According to Global 100 Software Leaders report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, SaaS, mobile, and cloud forces and trends are influencing the IT industry. Software companies and vendors are especially beginning to feel the effects of…
Enterprise Startups SDN Market Reaches $4 Billion Software-defined networking (SDN) changes the way companies build their IT networks. Instead of buying expensive routers and switches with a lot of fancy features from the likes of Cisco, companies can buy simpler, cheaper hardware, and less of it, and those fancy features are handled by a new…