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Sony Gaming Gets New Chief in Wake of PSN Hacks
With barely two months having passed since the Sony hacking incident (which led to the closing down of their prestigious online gaming systems, the PlayStation Network), Sony is now ready to reshuffle the management of their company, switching around some executives. They will start from the top of the pyramid, working their way down. In ...
Cloudera Crashes Hortonworks Party with Hadoop Enterprise Update
It’s been an action-packed week for the open-source cloud, and especially for Hadoop-based products. Yahoo launched a heavily speculated spin-off of its Hadoop project called Hortonworks, while Ravel pushed out its own open source project called GoldenOrb. Now Cloudera, one of the most notable Hadoop management services is updating its Enterprise suite with new software ...
Taking Social Games Beyond Social Networks: Adknowledge Launches Social2Web
When it comes to the distribution of social games, there’s been a limited number of options for developers looking to monetize their efforts. Facebook’s been one of the biggest social game hubs in recent years, but as the social web extends beyond Facebook’s walls, social game developers need options that can keep pace. Adknowledge is ...
ShelfLuv’s Inspiring Instant Amazon Books Search Shows Promise for Personal Cloud
The world of connected devices has inspired a wealth of personal cloud services, allowing age-old industries to become more hopeful about today’s digital age. The publishing industry in particular has found new life in digital distribution, from e-readers to online retailers like Amazon, which has a penchant for hedging its bets on both sides of ...
FlashSoft Picks Data Favorites, Uses Flash as Cache
Flash storage seems to be the popular kid on the block right now, with companies like Fusion-io sparking debate over the technology’s use at the enterprise level, while also incurring interest from the startup sector regarding innovative ways to make it a scalable and affordable storage solution. FlashSoft is one such company, launching its shipping ...
Google-Inspired Project Analyzes Big Data Graphs: Ravel Goes Open Source
Big data is a big deal these days, and it’s our connected systems that’s driving demand around number-crunching and analysis in this department. Social networks alone have driven the desire to connect relationships across the web, adding another sticking point for massive graph processing, which powers notable engines like Google Search’s Page Rank. Responding to ...
Mobile Travel: An Industry That Doesn’t Yet Know Itself
I’ve been traveling a lot this year. More than just my usual summer road trip, or a holiday reunion with family. And it’s simply because I can. I can pack a weekend bag, throw my laptop in my purse (my laptop is that small–incidentally, my purse is also that big), turn on my mobile hot ...
ScaleXtreme Brings Virtualization into the New Age
When it comes to scaling the cloud, there’s a number of pitfalls you could fall into, and an equal number of solutions you can seek out. As an industry struggles to find its footing in resolving these issues, ScaleXtreme launches its cloud-based systems management service, presenting a simplified and central system for running your virtualized ...
DotCloud Officially Launches, Ready to Take on Any Stack
DotCloud, the PaaS provider that angles to offer a single platform interface for any stack, has gone public with its service, officially exiting the private beta stage. Developers and IT organizations can use DotCloud to deploy applications across the globe, utilizing the company’s new run-time services, which aim to improve scalability with a unique set ...
LongJump Leaps Into the Future of Social Enterprise
As PaaS grows in popularity, we’re seeing a great deal of innovation take place amongst those companies that are involved in this necessary industry. Launching two new services today is PaaS and online database provider, LongJump. Javelin and Relay are the appropriately named new features, which boost its cloud platform designed around helping companies immediately ...
