Datacentre startups emerging to solve virtualisation and cloud problems
A host of new datacentre startups are coming on the scene to help IT shops handle the challenges posed by virtualised infrastructures and cloud computing.
A host of new datacentre startups are coming on the scene to help IT shops handle the challenges posed by virtualised infrastructures and cloud computing.
Plenty of hardware vendors are pushing out Solid State Disk products to speed up data access. Now a startup is emerging from stealth mode with server software designed to make it easier to use SSD with existing storage systems and applications.
Apple's iPad and other tablets are causing consumers to delay laptop purchases, Gartner said Wednesday as it downgraded PC shipment projections.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2009/060309-apple-quiz.html">Apple</a> Monday previewed <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/">Lion</a>, the next major version of Mac OS X, which will feature <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/111910-apple-ipad-resources.html">iPad</a>-like multi-touch gestures and be sold for $29.99 on the Mac App Store.
Although Mac users are more likely to experience virus-free computing than Windows PC owners, there is nothing inherently more secure about Apple's operating system, and in certain respects Mac OS X is more vulnerable than Windows, a security expert tells Network World.
VMware vs. Microsoft's Hyper-V: It's one of the biggest battles in the enterprise IT world.
The iPad now accounts for nearly 1% of all Web browsing, which may not sound like a lot until you look at the numbers for Apple's closest competitors.
The New York Stock Exchange has built a VMware-based cloud computing service for financial firms, which goes live today from a data center in New Jersey with expansions planned for Toronto, Tokyo and London.
Citrix founder Edward Iacobucci is launching a startup called VirtualWorks Group that plans to organise the mountains of data overwhelming modern businesses.
With some users unable to sign into Skype and make voice calls, the soon-to-be-acquired-by-Microsoft company offered users a multi-step fix to get its service running again.
Citrix's annual Synergy conference is opening with a bang this week, with Citrix previewing overhauls to nearly every component of its virtual desktop product lines, reaching from the data center to the iPad.
Salesforce.com's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/120810-salesforcecom-buys-ruby-cloud-app-platform.html">acquisition of the Heroku cloud platform</a> last December has led to some confusion about how Salesforce plans to pitch two completely separate platform-as-a-service offerings.
Starting July 1, Microsoft customers will be able to use their current license agreements to move server applications from internal data centers to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2009/ndc3/051809-cloud-faq.html">cloud computing</a> services, and contracts signed after that date will offer the same benefit.
The same Citrix technology that lets users access <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/windows.html">Windows</a> applications from the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/030211-ipad2.html">iPad</a> is coming to Chrome OS laptops built by Google.
The expansion of Android from smartphones to tablets, TVs and desktop computers impressed developers attending the Google I/O conference, with one attendee predicting that Google's other operating system – Chrome OS – is doomed.