If you buy a new Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone, try not to drop it before buying a protective case or …
Younity 1.5 could render cloud storage obsolete
As we’ve become a more mobile society—working from virtually anywhere on our smartphones and tablets—we’ve also embraced various cloud storage …
HP ships $169 Slate 7 Android tablet
Hewlett-Packard on Friday started shipping its US$169.99 Slate 7 tablet with Android 4.1, which signals the company’s reentry into the …
Infor uninterested in owning cloud data centres
Infor’s CEO, Charles Phillips, on Monday said that the vendor has no intention of owning its own data centres for …
Infor unveils Sky Vault cloud service
Infor on Monday announced Sky Vault, a big data cloud service based on its ION Business Vault suite that utilises …
Infor unveils Sky Vault cloud service to tackle big data woes
Infor on Monday announced Sky Vault, a big data cloud service based on its ION Business Vault suite that utilises …
HP to create enterprise-friendly cloud, takes aim at AWS
HP can stake a bigger claim in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market by creating an enterprise-friendly rival to …
Cloud pricing war heats up
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has lowered the cost of running Windows on its cloud, while Google announced a reduction on …
Raspberry Pi sells out in US
The U.S. distributor of the $25 Raspberry Pi computer quickly exhausted its limited supply of the devices Monday. Allied Electronics, …
Windows 8 adoption slowly climbs
Barely five months after its release, Windows 8 has captured 3.17 percent of the desktop operating systems market, though it …
VPN logs are no indication of worker performance
Yahoo recently made waves when CEO Marissa Mayer revoked all work-from-home arrangements and mandated that employees show up at the …
‘People are buying dumb storage’
At Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Hu Yoshida is the CTO responsible for defining the company’s technical direction. For everybody else, …
Flexible data centres
With demand for storage and networking capabilities skyrocketing, in-house and hosted data centres are being put under greater pressure than …
Acer beefs up Chromebook line with new C7
There appears to be no end to the Chromebook phenomenon, which has seen PC maker after PC maker jump onto Google‘s Chrome …
Oracle acquires private cloud firm Nimbula
Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent …
Rumours fly on VMware public cloud offering
VMware is reportedly preparing a public cloud offering that it would run itself, however VMware officials have refused to comment on …
NASA’s role in OpenStack
IBM‘s announcement last week that it would base its cloud services on OpenStack may help establish the open-source platform as …
AWS provides easy entry to SAP HANA
It’s no secret that SAP’s HANA in-memory database has become the centrepiece of the software vendor’s technology strategy. HANA features …
Many private clouds ‘not clouds at all’
The line between virtualisation and a private cloud can be a fuzzy one, and according to a new report by Forrester Research, …
Pick of the bunch
When somebody decides to host a global tour, one of the things they have to decide is in which city …