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Hard drive maker Seagate announced it the one millionth unit of its Momentus XT solid state hybrid drive, which the company introduced back in spring 2010 for use in laptops and gaming systems. The main reason the Momentus XT has seen so …
Apprenda Closes $10M Funding Round, PaaS Going Strong
Apprenda, a PaaS for .NET, has raised $10 million in a second round of funding led by Ignition Partners. Existing investors New Enterprise Associates and High Peaks Venture Partners also participated. The company stated that the fresh capital will be used to …
ElasticStack Joins the Open-Source Cloud Club
The vendor-agnostic, open-source cloud has been getting a lot of attention from both customers and companies that are developing initiatives around this topic. Amazon, Microsoft, Rackspace and OpenStack are among those who are leading this growing trend, but they’re not alone. ElasticStack …
Where Android Loses Big: Service Costs
Consumer analytics startup ClickFox released a report that suggests that, at least in terms of how much it will cost a company to solve user issues, the iPhone has the lead over Android and BlackBerry. ClickFox analyzed support calls received by …
Fusion-io’s New Market – Digital Arts
Storage acceleration solutions maker Fusion-io is attempting to branch out, and the latest area the company is venturing into is digital arts. Fusion teamed-up NVIDIA, Thinkbox Software and Tweak Software to demonstrate how professional graphic design software, which has a tendency of …
The New Age of Services: Liquidware, NetApp Virtualize Solutions
Liquidware Labs, a VDI solutions provider that developed the Stratusphere and ProfileUnity offerings, has a new service to help customers make the most out of their virtual desktop deployments. In partnership with NetApp, the company is now offering a new consulting service to …
Firing Back Against Police, AntiSec Unleashes 10GB of Leaked Law Enforcement Data
The recent overflow of incidents in the cybersecurity front managed to draw a lot of media attention to the topic, as well as law enforcement agencies going after the hackers. Members of Anonymous and the now disbanded Lulz Security (that has spun …
“Spam King” Faces Federal Allegations Over Facebook Scam
Sanford Wallace, the spammer whose activities have been dated back all the way to the 90’s, is facing criminal charges for the first time in two decades. He’s accused of hacking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages throughout 2008 …
Infineta Gains Infrastructure Insight with New Board Member
Infineta, a San-Jose firm that makes hyper-scale WAN optimization systems, announced today the latest member of its board of directors. Ashok Krishnamurthi is joining the company, a 20-year tech industry vet who is the co-founder and chairman of I/O virtualization solutions provider …
SAP: Critical Security Patch Coming this Week
SAP, a Frankfurt-based maker of business software, will release a patch on August 9 to address a potentially hazardous security flaw originally picked up by Alexander Polyakov, CTO of security firm ERPScan and one of the attendees of last week’s Black Hat …