Monthly Archives: July 2015
Microsoft’s Phone Biz Feels Brunt of Latest Round of Layoffs
Today's topics include cuts at Microsoft, a disruption of United Airlines flights, Apple pushing for packaging changes from third-party vendors and a report on...
Cisco to Invest $1 Billion in the UK Market
Cisco Systems is continuing its investments in overseas markets by promising to spend $1 billion over the next three to five years in the...
HP Debuts Big Data Management, File Analysis Software Platform
Hewlett-Packard rolled out two software solutions aimed at helping businesses leverage analytics and policy management technology. ControlPoint and Storage Optimizer are designed to lower...
Microsoft Aims for Cloud Completeness With Azure Updates
Amazon had an early start with its Web Services (AWS), Simple Storage Service (S3) and other offerings, but Microsoft is striving to turn its...
Correcting Persistent Myths About Virtual Volumes
Correcting Persistent Myths About Virtual Volumes
by Chris Preimesberger
You Only Need One VVOL for Every Virtual Machine
You need one VVOL for Config, one for Swap...
What You Should Know About Satya Nadella’s Microsoft
What You Should Know About Satya Nadella's Microsoft
By Don Reisinger
Nadella Is Thinking About Microsoft's Future
By laying off 7,800 people, Nadella may not be doing...
IBM Reaches 7nm Milestone for Chips
IBM has unveiled a 7-nanometer test chip, looking to get a jump on Intel as the processor industry looks to extend Moore's Law while...
OpenSSL Patches for ‘Boring’ Certificate Risk
The open-source OpenSSL cryptographic library project came out today with a high-severity security advisory and patched a single vulnerability, identified as CVE-2015-1793. OpenSSL is...
Xamarin, Oracle Partner on Enterprise Mobility
Cross-platform mobile development provider Xamarin extended its relationship with enterprise players by announcing a partnership with Oracle.Xamarin and Oracle announced an integrated solution to...
IBM Puts Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU on SoftLayer Cloud
IBM is boosting the high-performance computing (HPC) capabilities of the IBM Cloud by now offering Nvidia Tesla K80 dual-graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerators on...