http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:18:45 GMT Clearspace 2.5.5 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2012-02-10T21:18:45Z http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/cray-creates-new-big-data-division/?cs=49747 The Business Impact of Big Data 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 Knowledge Management data_management cray business_development supercomputing Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:18:45 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/cray-creates-new-big-data-division/?cs=49747 2012-02-10T21:18:45Z 2 days, 7 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/cray-creates-new-big-data-division http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49747 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/oracle-acquires-taleo-for-19-billion/?cs=49732 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 combat a decrease in software sales and to bolster oracle cloud_computing rightnow_technologies taleo mergers_and_acquisitions sap enterprise_software_vendors Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:34:32 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/oracle-acquires-taleo-for-19-billion/?cs=49732 2012-02-09T16:34:32Z 3 days, 12 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/oracle-acquires-taleo-for-19-billion http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49732 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/emc-unveils-pcie-flash-caching-system/?cs=49706 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 describes VFCache as “a means for EMC to engage users emc solid-state_drives vfcache storage_management san Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:26:23 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/emc-unveils-pcie-flash-caching-system/?cs=49706 2012-02-06T21:26:23Z 6 days, 7 hours ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/emc-unveils-pcie-flash-caching-system http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49706 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/seamicro-s-new-xeon-microserver-promises-faster-data-delivery/?cs=49656 SeaMicro, today, announced a new offering to its line of servers. According to the press release, the SM10000-XE(TM) is the industry’s first fabric-based Intel(R) Xeon(R) microserver . The microserver is geared toward heavy workloads, such as the enterprise_servers intel xeon microserver social_networks seamicro Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:41:39 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/seamicro-s-new-xeon-microserver-promises-faster-data-delivery/?cs=49656 2012-01-31T18:41:39Z 1 week, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/seamicro-s-new-xeon-microserver-promises-faster-data-delivery http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49656 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/microsoft-s-office-15-public-beta-set-for-summer/?cs=49650 Windows 8 Features Businesses Will Love The next generation of Microsoft Office, codenamed “Office 15,” is now in the Technical Preview Program and will be available for public beta this summer, according PJ Hough, CVP of development for the Microsoft windows_8 microsoft_office office_15 tablets_netbooks_and_umpcs beta Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:42:24 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/microsoft-s-office-15-public-beta-set-for-summer/?cs=49650 2012-01-30T21:42:24Z 1 week, 6 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/microsoft-s-office-15-public-beta-set-for-summer http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49650 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/cleversafe-s-10-exabyte-storage-system-tackles-big-data/?cs=49614 Cleversafe, an object-based storage vendor, is looking to address organizations’ needs for storage at the exabyte level. It announced today that it is offering a 10-exabyte storage system to accommodate volumes of unstructured data, or Big Data. storage_management big_data data_management cleversafe Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:24:44 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/cleversafe-s-10-exabyte-storage-system-tackles-big-data/?cs=49614 2012-01-25T21:24:44Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/cleversafe-s-10-exabyte-storage-system-tackles-big-data http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49614 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/amazon-unveils-aws-storage-gateway-for-easier-cloud-backup/?cs=49608 Today Amazon announced the release of its AWS Storage Gateway , which will make it easier for businesses to upload on-premise data directly to the cloud.   According to Alyssa Henry, general manager of AWS Storage Services, “The AWS Storage amazon cloud_computing backup storage_management Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:59:31 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/amazon-unveils-aws-storage-gateway-for-easier-cloud-backup/?cs=49608 2012-01-25T18:59:31Z 2 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/amazon-unveils-aws-storage-gateway-for-easier-cloud-backup http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49608 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/apple-leads-in-semiconductor-purchases-for-2011/?cs=49593 A new report from Gartner shows that Apple was the largest purchaser of semiconductors during 2011. Slashgear ’s Chris Davies points out that the company’s insatiable appetite for smartphone, tablet and solid-state drive chips led to it consuming apple hp hardware samsung it_market_analysts semiconductors Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:22:43 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/apple-leads-in-semiconductor-purchases-for-2011/?cs=49593 2012-01-24T19:22:43Z 2 weeks, 5 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/apple-leads-in-semiconductor-purchases-for-2011 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49593 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/tablet-ownership-almost-doubles-over-the-holidays/?cs=49585 The Consumerism of IT Will the consumerization of IT be the final nail in the internal IT support desk? It looks like tablets were at the top of most people’s Christmas list last year. According to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life e-readers kindle nook tablets_netbooks_and_umpcs amazon it_market_analysts consumer_electronics Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:08:02 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/tablet-ownership-almost-doubles-over-the-holidays/?cs=49585 2012-01-23T21:08:02Z 2 weeks, 6 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/tablet-ownership-almost-doubles-over-the-holidays http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49585 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/intel-acquires-qlogic-s-networking-assets-for-125-million/?cs=49582 Looking to expand its networking portfolio, Intel has acquired QLogic’s InfiniBand assets , including a portion of its employees, for a reported $125 million. The Register ’s Timothy Prickett Morgan details Intel’s and InfiniBand’s long relationship intel networking infiniband qlogic business_development mergers_and_acquisitions Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:54:36 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/intel-acquires-qlogic-s-networking-assets-for-125-million/?cs=49582 2012-01-23T19:54:36Z 2 weeks, 6 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/intel-acquires-qlogic-s-networking-assets-for-125-million http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49582 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/those-new-to-gmail-now-required-to-sign-up-for-google/?cs=49573 Yesterday, Google reported that its fourth quarter fiscal 2011 earnings missed analysts’ expectations . However, it said that it still plans to grow its social networking site Google+. It looks like the search giant is already moving ahead with that gmail it_market_analysts google google+ web_services social_networks Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:31:46 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/those-new-to-gmail-now-required-to-sign-up-for-google/?cs=49573 2012-01-20T21:31:46Z 3 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/those-new-to-gmail-now-required-to-sign-up-for-google http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49573 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/piston-releases-openstack-based-os-for-the-private-cloud/?cs=49567 Piston Cloud Computing has released an OpenStack-based cloud OS to better manage private cloud infrastructures. Called Piston Enterprise OS, the OS “utilizes the company’s Null-Tier architecture, combining storage, compute and networking on individual cloud_computing piston_cloud_computing open_source_enterprise_software openstack operating_system_vendors Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:01:13 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/piston-releases-openstack-based-os-for-the-private-cloud/?cs=49567 2012-01-20T19:01:13Z 3 weeks, 2 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/piston-releases-openstack-based-os-for-the-private-cloud http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49567 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/twitter-acquires-social-feed-site-summify/?cs=49558 Twitter announced today that it has acquired Summify , a social news aggregation startup that uses algorithms to pull together information from a user’s various social media streams. It then delivers the information as a single package through email, a twitter mergers_and_acquisitions business_development social_networks summify Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:17:46 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/twitter-acquires-social-feed-site-summify/?cs=49558 2012-01-19T20:17:46Z 3 weeks, 3 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/twitter-acquires-social-feed-site-summify http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49558 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/microsoft-s-system-center-2012-takes-aim-at-the-private-cloud/?cs=49552 Microsoft has made its System Center 2012 available as a release candidate. The updated release combines eight former products into one to address complaints about licensing issues. It also now supports Citrix’s XenServer, as well as Hyper-V and VMware. microsoft vmware citrix_systems cloud_computing Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:59:26 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/microsoft-s-system-center-2012-takes-aim-at-the-private-cloud/?cs=49552 2012-01-18T20:59:26Z 3 weeks, 4 days ago http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/microsoft-s-system-center-2012-takes-aim-at-the-private-cloud http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49552 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/facebook-ipo-rumored-for-may/?cs=49538 Investors waiting for Facebook to go public may not have to wait too much longer. According to Kara Swisher at All Things D , multiple sources are hinting that the social network’s public offering is set to come the third week of May.   Meeting facebook Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:20:26 GMT amanda.white@narrowcastgroup.com http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/facebook-ipo-rumored-for-may/?cs=49538 2012-01-17T22:20:26Z 3 weeks, 5 days ago 1 http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/comment/facebook-ipo-rumored-for-may http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/news/vam/blog/feeds/comments?blogPost=49538