Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be …
Chinese man guilty of pirated software sales worth $100mn
A Chinese man has pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to selling pirated software used in defence, space and other …
Unchartered shores
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Emcor Facilities Services (EFS) says this …
iPad hacker faces five years
A man faces five years in prison at least a $250,000 fine for hacking into AT&T’s servers and stealing the …
Anonymous fails to take down Facebook, Zynga
The hacktivist collective Anonymous celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on Monday by claiming it had stolen data from Symantec and ImageShack …
Startup tech vendors are worth the risk, say IT execs
Information technology professionals say companies can gain a competitive advantage by buying products and services from startup tech vendors, but …
eHosting DataFort implements private cloud for EFS
eHosting DataFort (eHDF) has implemented what it claims to be the first private cloud in the UAE for EMCOR Facilities …
Laptop inventor Bill Moggridge dies aged 69
Bill Moggridge, the British-born industrial designer credited with the creation of the first laptop computer in 1982, has died …
Red Hat to release enterprise-ready OpenStack package
Red Hat plans to release an enterprise grade version of the OpenStack open source software for hosting IaaS (infrastructure as …
Rackspace, HP go all in with OpenStack
Rackspace and HP have each brought major portions of their cloud offerings based on the OpenStack code out of beta and into …
10 most powerful IaaS companies
The 10 most powerful IaaS companies, assembled by Network World with help from analysts at Cloud Technology Partners, Current Analysis, …
Open-source data mapping tool CartoDB provides customisable views
Vizzuality this week launched an open-source data-mapping tool CartoDB, promising an easy and customisable way for users to display their …
IT investments deliver profits: research
Investing in IT departments can have a bigger impact on a firm’s profits than similar spending on R&D and some …
Sony division moves services from AWS to OpenStack
The division of Sony that suffered a cyber attack last year, which led to a major PlayStation network outage and …
Amazon automates business processes with new cloud service
Amazon Web Services has launched Simple Workflow Service (SWF), which will allow enterprises to automate business processes across both cloud-based …
Aiming high
Oscar Rodrigues, CEO of Extreme Networks, who visited the region recently, talks about why his company is a force to …
Rackspace to offer support for clouds in other data centres
Rackspace for the first time plans to extend its support services to OpenStack cloud implementations that reside within the walls …
Intel’s McAfee unit agrees to buy NitroSecurity
Intel’s McAfee unit is acquiring NitroSecurity in an effort to speed up risk and threat assessment capabilities via its security …
Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
Red Hat announced yesterday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS …
Promise in public clouds
SNIA’s recent survey suggests that many companies are currently using or planning to use public cloud storage offerings in North …