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Twitter and its Legal, Freedom of Speech Issues
Twitter and the entire social media space for that matter has seen a bit of turmoil recently, to say the least. The first news concerns a 27-year-old man who was arrested in San Antonio, Texas by the FBI for allegedly making threats against Marissa Mayer , one of Google’s first employees and now VP of local, ...
Microsoft Boosts Plans for Display Ad Market with Software Update
Software giant Microsoft is adapting to the online ad market, and is rolling out new features to its display advertising tool this month to avoid lagging behind Facebook, Yahoo!, and Google in particular. The company is putting an emphasis on helping customers increase targeting, which it hopes to accomplish by updating its Atlas offering, a ...
IBM Puts the B in Big Data Overseas
IBM announced today that YLZ, a Chinese IT solutions provider, chose IBM System z mainframe (running Linux) as the foundation of a plan to extend its “citizen livelihood service information network” to seven more provinces beyond Fujian. This means the service will become available for a total of about 300 million people. The company said it ...
Companies Are Starting to Realize what a Cloud Is
Paul Froutan, the chief technology officer at cloud storage startup Nirvanix, visited theCube again at VMworld 2011 (full video below – see 2nd half here). Froutan joined Nirvanix from Google, where he was in charge of operating the company’s production; the search giant built about five new datacenters during the time he worked there. Froutan ...
Seesmic CRM tops Tablet Business Apps: iPad, Android Edition
This week, we’ve rounded up the usual 5 apps, two of which stand out more than others. First of all, IBM just launched Connections on all the major platforms. Connections, once known as Lotus Connections, is the big blue’s social enterprise platform offering, and it’s a good move by the company to catch up with ...
Cloud Realities at VMworld 2011
The Cloud Realities Spotlight at VMworld 2011 covered some of the biggest of the biggest disruptors the industry has been seeing lately, as well as the whole big data trend that’s been going on in the past year or so. Manish Goel, EVP at NetApp joined for the first of two sessions, and talked about ...
Agility, Not Just Cost, Grows Demand for Converged Networks
The four-part Network Convergence Spotlight held on theCube at VMworld 2011 featured analysis from industry experts, and a look into how the big trends in networking are affecting the rest of the datacenter. Part 1 (full video below) was mostly an observation of some of the biggest drives pushing this trend forward today. Network convergence ...
VMware’s Tod Neilsen Drop by theCube at VMworld 2011
Tod Neilsen, former COO and now head of application development at VMware, sat down at theCube for the third time now with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Nielsen detailed that he’s now responsible for Cloud Foundry, the company’s open-source PaaS, and vFabric. He noted that the former played a big part in the whole kick ...
Tintri’s Kieran Harty on a Different Path than 3PAR
Kieran Harty, co-founder and chief executive of Tintri, stopped by theCube during VMworld 2011. He talked about Tintri’s offering, and his outlook for the company. Harty explained that Tintri developed a new type of NAS device; an appliance specifically designed for virtualized environments. The product only started shipping in April, and is based on flash ...
Microsoft Azure Toolkit for Android Ramps Mobile Competition
Software giant Microsoft has become invested in both the PaaS and mobile markets, and Azure is proving to be a very handy tool bolstering the company’s market share on both ends. Microsoft took an interesting approach by offering Azure toolkits for Windows Phone 7’s two main competitors (alongside the platform itself): iOS, and now Android. ...
