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February 28, 2012

Google+ Users Not Spending Quality Time on Site

Google+ launched in beta form in June of last year. It quickly pulled in millions of users right off the bat . However, a recent study has shown that those users aren’t putting in the same amount of... More >

February 24, 2012

Apple Acquires Search Startup Chomp

With nearly $100 billion in cash lying around , Apple might as well buy something. And today it was announced that the company has purchased Chomp , a San Francisco-based startup that makes a searc... More >

February 23, 2012

Zettaset Initiative Brings More Access Control to Hadoop

Just yesterday, our Loraine Lawson wrote about how the Navy is in need of a Big Data approach to handle digging into its large databases of data. She wondered what policies need to be changed to pu... More >

February 22, 2012

Apple Purchases Land for Ore. Data Center

Following in Facebook’s footsteps, Apple has laid down a chunk of money to purchase land in Prineville, Ore., for a new data center . A deed filed last week shows that Apple paid $5.6 million for th... More >

Dell Attributes Low Q4 Earnings to Hard Drive Supply Issues, Weak PC Sales

Yesterday, Dell reported that its Q4 earnings were down 10 percent from the previous year, which it blames on weak PC sales and hard drive shortages from the Thai floods. According to an IDG News Ser... More >

February 21, 2012

Ericsson Acquires Wi-Fi Company, BelAir Networks

The demand for Wi-Fi has prompted Ericsson to buy privately held Wi-Fi company, BelAir Networks. Details of the transaction have not been made public.   In an IDG News release on Computerworld ... More >

February 17, 2012

Startup Tegile Introduces New SSD Portfolio

Newark, Calif., startup Tegile has introduced a portfolio of hybrid solid-state drive arrays that aims to accelerate deduplication and compression . The Tegile Systems Zebi box, according to Data C... More >

February 16, 2012

Apache Accepts Deltacloud as Top-level Project

The Apache Software Foundation has promoted its cloud software interoperability toolkit from incubator stage to top-level project. This means that the project will operate under Apache guidelines a... More >

February 15, 2012

OCZ Launches New Flash Storage Solution for Cloud Environments

High-performance solid-state drive provider OCZ Technology Group Inc. has launched a new flash storage solution that promises to accelerate cloud computing applications and reduce data center operati... More >

EMC and VMware Form an Open Cloud Alliance with Atos

Atos, a French IT services company, announced plans today to create a new open cloud computing company that aims to provide cloud solutions and services to help customers better utilize the cloud. ... More >

February 13, 2012

Apple Stock Surges Past $500 per Share

After reporting Q1 2012 earnings of over $40 billion in revenue, Apple’s stock has passed $500 share. As Slashgear ’s Chris Davies put it, “ it’s now more expensive to buy a single share in Apple th... More >

February 10, 2012

Cray Creates New Big Data Division

Cray Inc., a supercomputing company based in Seattle, Wash. , has created a new division that will be focused on the Big Data market. Called “YarcData,” the new division will expand on Cray’s Knowle... More >

February 9, 2012

Oracle Acquires Taleo for $1.9 Billion

Oracle announced today that it is buying Taleo, a talent management and recruitment software vendor, for $1.9 billion.   A piece at Businessweek says that Oracle is using its acquisitions t o... More >

February 6, 2012

EMC Unveils PCIe Flash Caching System

To close the gap between what disk drives deliver and CPUs consume , EMC today announced a new data storage product called VFCache, previously known as “Project Lightning.” Our own Arthur Cole de... More >

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