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Electronic Arts Throws Down the Social Gaming Gauntlet with KlickNation Aquisition
Social gaming is among the fastest growing segments in this particular industry, and Electronics Arts has long ago become a contender to throne – or rather, Zynga’s throne. The company challenged Farmville’s social element back at the E3 convention and has made a couple of big acquisitions, including the $750 million buyout of PopCap this ...
Another Wireless-Cable Team Up with Verizon’s 4G Push
Verizon is taking every precaution to not fall behind other carriers with the expansion of its 4G LTE network. For the meager sum of $3.6 billion, the largest U.S carrier by market share acquired 122 advanced wireless services licenses from Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. It’s expected that Verizon’s position in the ...
This Week in Cloud: The Ship Has Sailed
This week there have been several momentous updates, a part of which are not necessarily news but are momentous developments nevertheless. The main highlight in this category is a new report by Cisco, the first in a series of Global Cloud Index studies, which cover the growth in cloud traffic over the years. The networking ...
VDI Trends: Key Influencers Drive New Solutions
Nimble Storage revealed the results of a study that asked 600 IT professionals about their current position on VDI in the enterprise. The report includes some interesting figures about the drivers and challenges that are moving this industry, which provide an opportunity to reflect on how vendors have been addressing these requirements. More than 60 ...
QLogic a Major Influence as Supercomputers Race Ahead
The 38th edition of the Top 500 Supercomputer List provided some revealing insights into the networking layer of the most powerful supercomputers running today, an area where InfiniBand solutions, a notable portion of which is provided by QLogic, are moving forward. QLogic and a fresh Wikibon study have pulled some interesting data, in addition to ...
Microsoft Revamps SkyDrive as Apple, Google Up the Ante on Consumer Cloud
Microsoft revamped its SkyDrive online file storage and collaboration platform, burying the No Downloads sign deeper into the cloud and adding other enhancements to the cloud-based service. SkyDrive’s UI has been improved to make the whole process of organizing files and folders more efficient and less clumsy so to speak, addressing on-going users ‘complaints. On ...
VMware Latest to Adopt BYOD: a More Mobile Workplace
Javier Soltero, CTO of SaaS and application services for VMware, revealed during the CloudBeat conference that his organization has stopped issuing corporate phones and asked its 10,000 workers to bring their own devices a few weeks ago. The EMC virtualization subsidiary is the latest IT organization to acknowledge the advantages of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) option in ...
Couchbase and Cloudera’s New Hadoop Connector, First for NoSQL
NoSQL database provider Couchbase and Cloudera developed a Hadoop connector that fuses together the advantages of both the companies’ offerings. The Couchbase Hadoop Connecter leverages the Apache Sqoop plug-in to allow the migration of large datasets between Couchbase and Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop. “Cloudera and Couchbase provide highly complementary technologies, and our integration gives customers ...
DDN Adds Joseph Cowan to Board
DataDirect Networks, maker of big data-driven storage systems, announced that Joseph L. Cowan will be joining its board of directors. “Joseph Cowan has extraordinary insight into the solutions required by customers in analytics-driven, data-intensive industries including financial services and manufacturing, and we are very pleased to welcome him to DDN’s Board of Directors,” said Alex ...
Cisco Forecasts Massive Cloud Growth by 2015
Networking gear provider Cisco released its first Global Cloud Index study, a new series that focuses on future global datacenter and cloud traffic. According to the inaugural issue, cloud traffic will multiple by 12 within the next 3 or so years at 66 percent, a compounded increase per year to 1.6 zettabytes, compared to today’s 130 annual ...
