A high-growth startup in the first decade of the new century, data backup solution vendor FalconStor has stalled financially in the last two years, admits company VP of Worldwide Marketing Fadi Albatal. An early developer of disk...»

As the US Government's appetite for cloud services hits a marked upswing, Microsoft has opened a Microsoft Office 365 community cloud specifically for federal agencies to move their productivity and collaboration apps to the cloud. Office...»

When VMware finalizes its purchase of Wanova, it will actually have four technologies taking three different approaches to desktop virtualization on today's increasingly diverse population of end-user computing devices, writes consultant Scott Lowe on Wikibon.org....»

Google and Facebook are two of the largest web companies out there, and as such they discovered that they can be much more efficient with the way they manage their data centers.   A very large...»

In a presentation to AWS Summit 2012 Australia attendees earlier this month and just posted to YouTube, Amazon Web Services General Manager & Chief Information Security Officer Stephen E. Schmidt preemptively answers the single most common question...»

Google announced today its latest Chromebook, and a new Chromebox that continue to show that hardware increasingly represent nodes for an increasingly dominant services oriented world. It will soon be true that everything is...»

HP, Dell and IBM continue to languish in the storage market when compared to the big guns such as EMC and NetApp. In a post on StorageNewsletter.com, Jean-Jacques Maleval writes that EMC, NetApp and Hitachi continue...»

If you ask me what the single most important benefit of an open source systems is, I would unhesitatingly say “accelerates collaboration and hence innovation” through extended communities. Not only is it fun to work...»

The disruption in the database market is fully apparent today with the news that 10Gen has received $42 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates and existing investors. 10Gen develops MongoDB, the open-source NOSQL database. It...»

CIOs don't want to listen to the innovators message that urges them to let 1,000 projects bloom. But maybe the approaching bombs will get their attention. The choice became readily apparent at the MIT Sloan...»