Citrix Acquires Storage Virtualization Vendor Sanbolic
Citrix Systems has purchased storage virtualization vendor Sanbolic in a move that could make it easier for Citrix users to use applications and virtual desktops spread across data centers and clouds....
View ArticleAmazon Courting The Enterprise With New ‘WorkMail’ Service
Amazon.com Inc ramped up its attempts to woo corporate clients by announcing an email and scheduling service that will compete with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc . The service, dubbed WorkMail, will...
View ArticleAT&T Set To Sell $2B Worth Of Data Centers
AT&T Inc is putting up for sale some data centers worth about $2 billion as it continues its pattern of unloading some assets, according to people familiar with the matter. AT&T, the No. 2 U.S...
View ArticleSamsung Refutes Claims Of Smart TVs Eavesdropping
People can speak freely around Samsung smart TVs without fear that their conversations will be recorded and sent to a data center, the company has said in response to privacy concerns related to its...
View ArticleHitachi To Boost IoT Business With Pentaho Acquisition
Hitachi Data Systems is acquiring business intelligence software maker Pentaho to incorporate analysis into Internet of Things systems it will develop for the healthcare, public safety and other...
View ArticleMicrosoft Says It Will Adopt International Standard For Cloud Privacy
Microsoft has adopted a new standard for cloud privacy that commits the technology giant to protect the privacy of customers’ data, not to use it for advertisement purposes, and to inform the customer...
View ArticleDell Working On 120Gbs Deep Packet Inspection Firewall
The SMA updates arrive six months after Dell revealed the SuperMassive 9800 firewall, which it claimed would protect against high-profile bugs such as Shellshock and Heartbleed.
View ArticleNokia Wants In On Data Centers For Mobile Operators
Nokia wants to assist mobile network operators roll out new services and reduce their expenses with a new range of servers, switches and storage they can use to virtualize their networks. Enterprises...
View ArticleAlibaba Expanding Cloud Services To U.S.
Alibaba, the Chinese ecommerce giant, is expanding its IaaS cloud offering named Aliyun into the United States and in doing so will take on America’s largest e-commerce company, Amazon, and its cloud...
View ArticleFacebook Planning New Irish Data Center
Facebook announced that it has decided to build a new data center in Ireland, the social network said on Monday, becoming the latest technology giant to open an energy efficient center in Ireland’s...
View ArticleAre Developers Rushing To The Cloud?
IBM announced SuperVessel last week to encourage open source cloud development on the Power platform, bolstering the existing and wildly successful Bluemix environment.
View ArticleIBM Buys Compose Cloud Services Company
"By joining IBM, we will have an opportunity to accelerate the development of our database platform and offer even more services and support to developer teams," said Kurt Mackey, co-founder and CEO at...
View ArticleIs IBM Trying To Patent Up The Cloud Market?
What this could mean is that IBM is gearing up for a cloud patent wars. Such patents could be defensive, just in case the likes of Oracle tries to take down IBM, but it could be hard to sit on patents...
View ArticleAlibaba Ads Artificial Intelligence To Its Cloud Service
Alibaba’s cloud computing business is attempting to gain enterprise customers with a new artificial intelligence service designed for data mining and analysis. The Chinese e-commerce giant has...
View ArticleEnterprise Storage Needs Driving Cloud Sales Boom
The cloud continues to gain major ground, driven by enterprise storage needs. Sales are way up for little-known manufacturers that sell directly to big cloud companies like Google and Facebook, while...
View ArticleAlibaba Adds Second Data Center in Silicon Valley
Continuing the expansion of its AliCloud cloud computing business, Alibaba Group is adding a second data center in Silicon Valley. The Chinese company said the data center will span over 10 cloud...
View ArticleEricsson And Cisco Join Forces In Network Partnership
Mobile equipment maker Ericsson and U.S. networking company Cisco Systems Inc announced that they have agreed to a business and technology partnership that should generate additional revenues of $1...
View ArticleAmazon To Use Wind Farm To Power Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that it will build and operate a 100-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Ohio that will power its current and future cloud service data centers. The project, called the...
View ArticleWant An AI Based Whispering Personal Assistant?
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on artificial intelligence software that could one day become a personal assistant, whispering directions to get to a restaurant, put together a...
View ArticleNetApp To Acquire SolidFire For $870M
NetApp is purchasing startup SolidFire for $870 million in cash for a foothold in the fast-growing market for scale-out flash storage. SolidFire’s all-flash systems will let enterprises take advantage...
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