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NetApp Releases First Update to Latest OnCommand Version
Storage company NetApp announced the first update to the latest version of its OnCommand cloud management offering. The latter was first unveiled a few weeks ago, and includes service analytics, optimization and capacity planning tools as well as a number of other features. These include monitoring of both virtual machines and storage pools, orchestration, automated ...
HP’s Biggest Executive Shuffle of the Year
Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday that it has gone through one of the biggest staffing changes in its history. Many execs, some of which are among the most associated with HP are involved, including Ann Livermore. Livermore, who has been with HP for 29 years, will step down as the head of the company’s enterprise business ...
Verizon Lands More Partners for Mobile Wallet Project
Verizon, currently the largest mobile carrier in the U.S, is investing a lot in a relatively new trend that has a great deal of potential: the mobile wallet. Verizon’s goal is to set up a service through which customers can pay for items they purchase online – and make this service more worthwhile that the ...
Google Responds as More Malware Attacks End Users Trust Factor
Google pulled 10 malicious apps from the Android Market, after the latest mobile vulnerability was revealed by Xuxian Jiang, an assistant professor at North Carolina State University. Jiang published an analysis of rogue code – codenamed Plankton – the malware he discovered in 10 apps. He reported his findings to Google: “It has the ability ...
Xeround Releases Cloud Service for MySQL Applications
Cloud database service provider Xeround announced today that its cloud database service for MySQL applications has hit general availability. The service went through a nine-month beta period that started in September last year and already managed to gain 2000 users, according to Xeround. The company also said several customers are using the offering in live ...
Location Rides High for Business Tablet Apps: Best of iOS and Android
The tablet business apps scene is getting pretty hot as more users begin to unlock the potential of the tablet in the workspace, and more developers are responding by developing some increasingly handy applications. This week we’ve rounded up the top five iPad and Android tablet apps for business users: iOS Stay.com The third and ...
Cloudy Times: From Enterprise to Consumer, HP to Apple
This past week features some of the biggest conferences for just about every industry in the cloud, from the customer to the enterprise level. On the hybrid cloud front, Hewlett-Packard announced it has made a $2 billion investment that will be used to provide customers some financing with their purchases. This news came from HP Discover 2011, ...
Big Data Breaches: A 6 Month Downfall
These past few months seems to have spurred an unusually large number of hacks targeted against some of the biggest names in the tech industry. The first one to be highlighted on this list is Sony, which has been breached more than a dozen times by various entities including LulzSec, a hacker group. The personal ...
Bubble Talk is Cheap, Few Deterrents for SocNets Going Public
The social media realm had its fair share of IPO headlines this year, and the latest name to join the list of companies planning on going public is CafePress. The online vendor founded in 1999 offers printing services for just about everything from t-shirts to mugs, and seeks to raise $80 million in a public ...
EMC to Invest $3 Billion in Acquisitions This Year
Storage giant EMC is going to continue its growth-via-acquisitions strategy this year; one which may turn out to be a pretty pricey one, according to President and Chief Operating Officer Pat Gelsinger. He said in an interview that EMC will leverage acquisitions to further branch out beyond storage and into big data, and continued to ...
