Stories by Jon Brodkin

Startup targets flash memory latency

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.

'Lion' brings iPad gestures to Mac OS for only $30

<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.

NYSE launches VMware-based cloud for financial firms

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.

Salesforce.com makes two-pronged cloud push with Force.com, Heroku

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.

Microsoft's cloud licensing changes: what you need to know

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.

Citrix will stream Windows apps to Chrome OS laptops

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.

[]