Monthly Archives: November 2013
HP’s Monty Taylor Tries to Counter OpenStack Doubters’ Arguments
HONG KONG—Monty Taylor has the title of Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett-Packard and also holds the distinction of currently being the top open-source OpenStack cloud...
Apple iPad Air Offers Slimmer Design, Fatter Margins
Apple introduced the iPad Air Oct. 22, calling it a "tremendous advancement" and an "entirely new mobile computing experience" and celebrating its 1-pound weight,...
Cisco’s Chambers Pushes Application Centricity, Dismisses SDN
Rather than slug it out with the software-defined network upstarts who endorse commodity hardware, Cisco is redefining the battleground and moving the networking wars...
Apple, Under Gag Order, Shares Limited Info on Gov’t Data Requests
Apple is under a U.S. government-mandated gag order that prevents it from being transparent with customers about whether their personal information is being shared,...
Google Apps Soon Ending Support for IE9 Users
For Google Apps users, a dependable Web browser is key to accessing and using their files and documents in the cloud. For Apps users...
Intel Creates Internet of Things Biz Unit
Intel executives last month began to lay out the company's strategy around the Internet of Things, including growing its new family of Quark chips...
Red Hat Aims to Manage More Clouds With CloudForms 3
At the VMworld event in August, Red Hat had the audacity to demonstrate a rival's product to VMware for multi-cloud management. At the time,...
YouTube Names Fan-Selected 2013 Music Award Winners
Music fans cast their votes on YouTube to choose six winners of the inaugural 2013 YouTube Music Awards by voting for their favorite videos...
Cisco Launches First Application-Centric Offerings
NEW YORK—Cisco Systems is continuing its efforts to set the tone in a networking market that is undergoing significant change due to the growth...
Cray Rolls Out Tiered Storage Solution
Supercomputer maker Cray is expanding its storage capabilities with the introduction of a tiered archiving solution that offers organizations the ability to easily migrate...