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World IPv6 Day, a test spanning 24 hours through which over 400 major web companies severed content via IPv6, was held exactly one month ago. It was lead by Yahoo, Google, VMware and other major players to encourage smaller service providers to …
This Week in the Cloud: Big Data, Consumer Computing and Privacy
As always, this past week has been packed with significant developments from several companies looking to monetize all the demand surrounding the cloud. Amazon Web Services is currently one of the largest players in this space, and is paying close attention to …
Dell’s Turning into a “Lifestyle Brand” via the Personal Cloud
Dell launched its new “More You” ads this week, presumably to make it clear for the end-user that it can stand up to the criteria set forth by Apple, HP, and the numerous other consumer enterprises out there. Critics claim Dell does …
More Universities Turn to Virtual Desktops; UConn’s New HTML5 Solution
Virtualization solutions maker Ericom announced that the University of Connecticut is piloting its AccessNow flagship offering – a purely HTML5-based virtualization client for VMware View customers. The university has already tested the product successfully, and will roll out AccessNow to its students …
The Private Cloud Sees Big Growth, Drives New Services
A new report released by cloud host StratoGen says that the second quarter has seen a whopping 82 percent growth in private cloud deployments. The company pointed towards the much wider trend of cloud adoption, noting that despite of some outages in …
HP TouchPad Under the Hood: Plans for an Improved Version
Now that Hewlett-Packard released its webOS-powered TouchPad tablet, research firm IHS iSuppli broke down the device to individual components to put on estimate on what kind of margins HP will be making of the new device. The TouchPad comes with a 9.7-inch …
Big Data and Hadoop Get Bigger, Amazon Web Services Slash Prices
Big data is getting bigger, and Hadoop is becoming the tool that will allow companies to make full use of their growing amounts of data, says Peter Fenton of Benchmark Capita. Fenton is a partner at the venture capital firm which owns …
This Week in the Cloud: Hortonworks, Storage and IT Consumerization
This past week in the cloud featured a handful of updates from the biggest segments in the industry, first of all from the open-source segment. Yahoo spun off their Hadoop business, launching Hortonworks. The new branch, backed by Benchmark capital, is taking …
Top iPad, Android Business Tablet Apps: MicroStrategy Tops the List
The app marketplace is evolving, and the office is quickly following customer trends as more and more apps surface to address business needs. This week, mobile BI app MicroStrategy tops our list. iPad MicroStrategy Mobile for iPad MicroStrategy for iPad is a …
Hadoop Summit Recap: Yahoo, Cloudera and Everything in Between
Hadoop Summit 2011 was held this week, and featured some pretty major developments, including what analyst Alex Williams dubbed Yahoo’s smartest play in years. Yahoo’s Hadoop division separated from the company to form a new startup, Hortonworks, backed by Benchmark Capital. Hortonworks …