VMware rolls up an integrated cloudy control freak |
- VMware rolls up an integrated cloudy control freak
- EMC shows off XtremIO's Project X box
- Google gets hands on ‘glove-cam’ patent
- NBN zealotry in the ultra-high definition age
- Office 2013 to offer one-off apps on demand
- VMware kills vRAM memory tax with vSphere 5.1 server virt
- Curiosity rover hijacked by will.i.am to debut science song
- VMware offers cloud construction mind meld as a service
- Samsung fights to stay on US shelves as Apple calls for ban
- Dropbox joins the security two-step party
- Broadcom launches Trident II switch chip
- HyTrust goes ballistic with virty compliance appliance
- AMD engineering another Opteron-like leap
- Huawei, ZTE hit with ITC patent probe
- China Mobile to roll-out 16GB MEGA-cloud platform
- It's Lego's 80th birthday party, but only the boys are invited
- Big Data bites back: How to handle those unwieldy digits
- UK kids' charity lobbies hard for 'opt-in' web smut access
- Rackspace, MacTel snipe in the cloud
- Twitter joins Linux foundation
| VMware rolls up an integrated cloudy control freak Posted: 27 Aug 2012 03:54 PM PDT How vCloud Suite it isVMworld 2012 VMware wants to make it simpler for its customers to make the jump from virtualized servers running its ESXi hypervisor to full-on clouds complete with all of the automation, disaster recovery, and other control freakage. And to that end, in conjunction with the launch of the new ESXi 5.1 hypervisor and add-on vSphere management tools, VMware is bundling up its various cloudy tools that ride atop vSphere into a suite of its own called vCloud Suite, appropriately enough.… |
| EMC shows off XtremIO's Project X box Posted: 27 Aug 2012 03:43 PM PDT Enters the million-IOPS club with all-flash arrayVMworld 2012 EMC has shown off an early version of the all-flash array it acquired when hoovering up XtremIO earlier this year.… |
| Google gets hands on ‘glove-cam’ patent Posted: 27 Aug 2012 03:24 PM PDT Chocolate Factory gets the fingerThe next territory in the Great Patent Land-Grab is at the end of your arms: in a patent granted last year that's just hit publication, the Chocolate Factory gets its hands on using gloves as a user interface.… |
| NBN zealotry in the ultra-high definition age Posted: 27 Aug 2012 03:00 PM PDT Do anti-FTTP NBN arguments stack up against the reality of UHDTV and Terabit Ethernet?Australia's Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull recently declared the IT media includes a number of "zealots" who won't, such is their/my fanaticism, report fairly on his alternative National Broadband Network (NBN) plans.… |
| Office 2013 to offer one-off apps on demand Posted: 27 Aug 2012 02:29 PM PDT Close your file and the application vanishesAs part of its ongoing bid to convince Office customers to switch to a subscription-based pricing model, Microsoft has announced that Office 2013 subscribers will be able to access temporary copies of the desktop Office applications on any computer, delivered via internet streaming technology.… |
| VMware kills vRAM memory tax with vSphere 5.1 server virt Posted: 27 Aug 2012 01:36 PM PDT Stretching VMs, and taking on MicrosoftVMworld 2012 The most important new feature of the new ESXi 5.1 hypervisor and its related vSphere 5.1 tools that made their debut at the VMworld virtualization extravaganza today is not a feed or speed, but the fact that VMware has dropped the much-hated vRAM memory tax that came out last year with vSphere 5.0.… |
| Curiosity rover hijacked by will.i.am to debut science song Posted: 27 Aug 2012 01:33 PM PDT Audio pollution of two worldsOn Tuesday NASA is pimping out its Curiosity rover to silly-named songster will.i.am so that he can use it to premiere his latest song Reach for the Stars.… |
| VMware offers cloud construction mind meld as a service Posted: 27 Aug 2012 01:00 PM PDT 'New Operating Model for the Cloud Era' to mutate sysadmin jobsVMworld 2012 Everything you and the world's greatest process wonks know about building and operating data centres is wrong if you're assembling a private cloud, says VMware, and only its new Cloud Ops offering - billed as a "New Operating Model for the Cloud Era" - can help you do it right.… |
| Samsung fights to stay on US shelves as Apple calls for ban Posted: 27 Aug 2012 12:25 PM PDT Injunction hearing scheduled for SeptemberUpdated Now that the jury in the landmark Apple-Samsung patent trial has returned a $1bn verdict in Apple's favor, the next step will be to decide just which of Samsung's mobile phones will be permitted to be sold in the US.… |
| Dropbox joins the security two-step party Posted: 27 Aug 2012 11:10 AM PDT Spamming stimulates the systemDropbox has followed through on an earlier promise and is rolling out two-factor authentication for its Windows, Mac, and Linux users.… |
| Broadcom launches Trident II switch chip Posted: 27 Aug 2012 08:42 AM PDT Blasting over 100 10GE ports into the cloudsAll of those apps you run on your smartphones and tablets and the surfing you do from PCs and other devices ultimately ends up whacking some data center network somewhere in the world. The appetite for bandwidth and low latency continues apace, and switch and adapter chip maker Broadcom aims to keep up with that demand with its new Strata XGS Trident II switch ASICs.… |
| HyTrust goes ballistic with virty compliance appliance Posted: 27 Aug 2012 08:38 AM PDT Locks down Vblock cloudsVMworld 2012 The US Air Force doesn't let a single operator of a missile site launch a nuke all by his or her lonesome, and HyTrust, a maker of policy management and access control software for VMware virtual infrastructure, thinks IT shops should adopt the secondary approval rule for a lot of things that go on inside of the ESXi hypervisor and its vCenter management console.… |
| AMD engineering another Opteron-like leap Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:54 AM PDT A future of APUs and dense-packed serversVMworld 2012 It is not as much fun to be in the server part of Advanced Micro Devices these days, with Intel surging in the server racket and expanding out to switching and storage with its Xeon processors and Intel more or less counting the substantial innovations that AMD's engineers crafted for the Opterons a decade ago. The good news if you like a good fight is that there is a whole new management and engineering team at AMD now, and they not only understand that AMD has to do some serious innovating, but they are itching for the fight.… |
| Huawei, ZTE hit with ITC patent probe Posted: 27 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT US authorities heed patent trolls' throaty call for actionChinese mobile comms giants Huawei and ZTE are in trouble with the US authorities again, this time as part of a wider patent investigation by the ITC which could result in some of their mobile device models being banned in the States.… |
| China Mobile to roll-out 16GB MEGA-cloud platform Posted: 27 Aug 2012 05:47 AM PDT Store your data in China. We dare youThe world's largest mobile operator by subscribers, China Mobile, is finally jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon with its own iCloud rival, which will also be available to internet users outside the People's Republic.… |
| It's Lego's 80th birthday party, but only the boys are invited Posted: 27 Aug 2012 03:06 AM PDT Girls get pink-boxed dollhouses, boys get to buildImagination-fostering Lego is 80 years old this month and far from its roots as a creativity-inspiring construction toy for girls and boys.… |
| Big Data bites back: How to handle those unwieldy digits Posted: 27 Aug 2012 02:02 AM PDT When you can't just cram it into tablesData is easy. It comes in tables that store facts and figures about particular items – say, people. The columns define the data to be stored about each item (such as FirstName, LastName) and there is one row for each person. Most tabular database engines are relational and we use SQL for querying. So this "Big Data" thang must simply be very, very big tables with lots and lots of rows.… |
| UK kids' charity lobbies hard for 'opt-in' web smut access Posted: 27 Aug 2012 01:02 AM PDT Parenting fail or p0rn0 too easily available? Esther Rantzen says it's the latterThe founder of British charity ChildLine is calling on the government to take a hardline approach against what some consider to be hardcore pornography online - by enforcing an opt-in system for adults to protect kids from being traumatised by the images.… |
| Rackspace, MacTel snipe in the cloud Posted: 26 Aug 2012 05:30 PM PDT Patriot Act does/does not apply, take your pickRackspace's arrival in Australia last week – complete with a swipe at local player Macquarie Telecom – has brought a response back from MacTel.… |
| Twitter joins Linux foundation Posted: 26 Aug 2012 04:48 PM PDT 'We love developers really'A week after it rocked its developer base with a new set of API rules, Twitter has become a Silver-level member of the Linux foundation, assuring the open source world that it's "fundamental" to Twitter's success.… |
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