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 A PMTUD black hole can cause a particularly subtle set of issues in hybrid cloud-based environments where the cloud resources are connected to a corporate office or other datacenter via IPSec tunnels. PMTUD black holes basically cause certain (but not all) traffic to not make it throug...May. 22, 2013 09:33 AM EDT Reads: 670 |
 In the face of rapidly increasing amounts of unstructured data, industry is investing heavily to turn machines into services and connect them to analytics engines that will extract an extraordinary amount of value and unleash a productivity revolution for both businesses and consumers....May. 21, 2013 05:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,244 |
 Storage and Archive offerings are now exploding on the market. From end-user mobile devices to company tactical level, the cloud has become a black hole for every kind of data. But what are the risks, and what are the real needs?
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, A...May. 18, 2013 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,954 |
 Google’s stock topped $900 a share Wednesday ahead of the opening of its annual I/O developers’ conference in San Francisco, raising its market value to over $304 billion, something no high-tech firm has ever done before.
There’s the inevitable talk of it hitting $1,000.
Apparently ...May. 16, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 924 |
 Activist shareholder Carl Icahn and another of Dell’s large shareholders, Southeastern Asset Management, have come up with a new alternative proposal to Michael Dell’s $24.4 billion buy-out offer to take the company private.
The pair sent the special committee of Dell’s board another...May. 10, 2013 01:34 PM EDT Reads: 1,223 |
 A year after opening a formal investigation into how Motorola Mobility enforces its patents, the antitrust arm of the European Commission has sent the company an SO or statement of objections saying it’s misusing the standard-essential patents (SEPs) it’s got on mobile phones.
The mis...May. 7, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,142 |
 Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads (classic and mini), up 65.3%, and it now has roughly 40% of the tablet business. Its numbers have been trending down and are expected to continue to decline.
Samsung was second up nearly 18% after shipping 8.8 million units.
Asus was third with 2.7 ...May. 6, 2013 06:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,681 |
 Verizon Wireless is going into the cloud storage business for tablets and smartphones up against the likes of Dropbox.
It ultimately expects to let customers transfer information between operating systems.
The Verizon Cloud will roll out the service soon, starting with Android and ...May. 1, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,655 |
 A panel of the six commissioners at the International Trace Commission Monday tossed out a Motorola claim that Apple’s iPhone 4 was in patent violation, foiling its attempt to get the widget banned in America.
Motorola and its parent Google can appeal to the Federal Circuit and Googl...Apr. 29, 2013 07:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,580 |
 Don’t expect Google Glass to be out anytime soon.
Google’s globe-trotting chairman Eric Schmidt told the BBC that “It’s fair to say that thousands of these will be in use by developers over the next months, and then based on their feedback we will make some product changes, and it’s ...Apr. 29, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,403 |
 Google’s proposal to the European Commission to resolve the long-standing antitrust charges against its vertical search activities involves labeling or setting off its own services to distinguish them from rival specialized search engines and showing links “to three rival specialized s...Apr. 26, 2013 08:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,490 |
 Microsoft announced Tuesday that ZTE, one of the world’s biggest handset producers, had come to terms and signed a worldwide patent license agreement that will see Microsoft paid a royalty on all of the phones, tablets, computers and other devices the Chinese company makes that run Goo...Apr. 25, 2013 10:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,501 |
 I would invite anyone in an IT department buried in demand for mobile apps to first take a look at Google Enterprise, before trying to develop everything yourself. There are many mobile capabilities already available in the Google world which are free to individuals and available free...Apr. 23, 2013 03:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,316 |
 Space Monkey's beta started Wednesday.
It's taking pre-orders for its P2P device on Kickstarter, where it's looking to raise money for the project.
A pledge of $99 will fetch the widget, 1TB of space and a year's subscription. A pledge of $199 buys 2TB for a year.
The number of devi...Apr. 18, 2013 09:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,656 |
 Foxconn’s parent company Hon Hai, the world’s largest contract manufacturer, is going to pay Microsoft royalties on all the Android and Chrome widgets it makes including smartphones, tablets and televisions under the broad worldwide patent licensing agreement they’ve just cut.
Hon Ha...Apr. 18, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,244 |
 For readers not yet familiar with the acronym SMAC, it represents social, mobile, analytics and cloud. In this short video, Google demonstrates, through Google Enterprise, how companies can implement a SMAC strategy to improve the following:
Improve meetings and collaboration
Work b...Apr. 17, 2013 02:05 PM EDT Reads: 1,078 |
 Internet Security is a vital measure for any business to implement. Due to the Internet's global reach, it is becoming increasingly more important to protect sensitive company data and networks. For multinational corporations and smaller businesses alike, the possibility of attack on a...Feb. 7, 2013 12:44 PM EST Reads: 1,399 |
 Google has reportedly offered to make minor changes to its web search engine to resolve its antitrust troubles with the European Commission and avoid a fine for allegedly manipulating its search results.
The details of the concessions package it’s proposing are being kept a deep dark...Apr. 16, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,839 |
 The convenience, efficiency and cost benefits cloud computing offers organizations has made moving healthcare data and records to the cloud make sense for hospitals, physicians and other healthcare providers. Security and data breaches are a concern for any industry utilizing the cloud...Apr. 15, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,638 |
 A recent survey has shown that security policies and rules set down by IT departments are not just being ignored but having a bus driven through them by staff and senior executives, who wish to bring their own device to work so that they can do more, work smarter and be in touch all of...Apr. 15, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,880 |
 Google has finally submitted a formal concession offer to the European Commission, which is now going to test-market them with complainants and competitors such as Microsoft.
Google could emerge from the two-year antitrust investigation of its search practices without paying a fine. ...Apr. 15, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,564 |
 Space Monkey, the Google-backed P2P start-up that intends to compete against Box and Dropbox not to mention the likes of Google Drive and SkyDrive, seems to be slowly pumping up publicity for its widget so maybe it’s getting close to its promised public beta if it can get the Kickstart...Apr. 12, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,667 |
 Microsoft, Google, Nokia and the 14 other members of FairSearch.org have made an antitrust complaint against Google to the European Commission, hoping the regulator will quickly open an official investigation.
The companies accuse Google of using the Android operating system, install...Apr. 10, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,713 |
 GoGrid, a cloud infrastructure company, and Racemi, the moving company for the cloud, on Tuesday announced the availability of Cloud Path for GoGrid, a joint offering for migrating customers' existing server workloads to GoGrid's cloud platform free of charge.
The Cloud Path software-...Apr. 9, 2013 02:07 PM EDT Reads: 1,836 |
 Have you had a chance to review the full inventory of Google's solutions and apps lately? I have been working with many of them this week and am impressed with how Google is enabling enterprises to become true social businesses. It is very interesting how they are not just demonstratin...Apr. 8, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,835 |
 Facebook Thursday addressed the mobile crisis that erupted when it went public 11 months ago and the two-year-old trend it’s among its users who are increasingly tuning into its site from mobile devices rather than PCs.
It commandeered Google’s Android operating system and overlaid it...Apr. 8, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,785 |
 Stagnant budgets, overwhelming data growth, and new user and application demands are just a few of the many challenges that are putting IT organizations under more pressure today than ever before. As a result, a new approach is required.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud...Apr. 7, 2013 06:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,518 |
 Concerns are raised every once in a while in the broader free and open source software community about freeloaders. The attitude expressed is that if you're getting the benefit of FOSS, you should contribute. Building a business on a FOSS project you don't own, whether you're providi...Mar. 18, 2013 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,981 |
 No sooner had Google CEO Larry Page said that Android chief Andy Rubin would stop running the unit he created and that Android would be joined to the Chrome operation under Chrome boss Sundar Pichai than the company quietly said it’s breaking up its maps and commerce unit and that its ...Mar. 18, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,123 |
 McAfee has announced the industry’s first white-listing security solution for Android embedded systems.
McAfee Application Control for Android is the only security solution that resides in the Android operating system kernel.
McAfee provides protection from the installation or exec...Mar. 16, 2013 04:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,763 |
 iSCSI? No problem! Windows Server 2012 and Hyper-V Server 2012 include native support for a software iSCSI initiator as well as MPIO ( Multipath IO ) for resiliency and load balancing of storage IO over multiple network paths.
In this article, we’ll walk through the process of connec...Mar. 14, 2013 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,282 |
 After taking giant bites out of Apple, Android chief Andy Rubin is apparently sated.
He’s stepping away from his fiefdom, according to a blog post by Google CEO Larry Page, to look for something else to do inside of Google.
Chrome and Apps chief Sundar Pichai, who turned down a job...Mar. 14, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,668 |
 IDC has been watching the growing popularity of the smaller, lower-priced tablets.
It found that one in two tablets that shipped this quarter had a screen measuring less than eight inches. It figures this strong trend is going to continue – strongly enough, in fact, for it to tickle ...Mar. 13, 2013 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,747 |
 Google Apps Script is a cloud-based JavaScript environment that allows you to write powerful applications and workflows around Google Apps such as Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Sheets. The development is entirely within a browser and it's free and easy to get started.
In his upcoming sessi...Mar. 12, 2013 09:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,749 |
 Activist investor Carl Icahn, who was found last week to have accumulated 6% of Dell and is threatening to upset Michael Dell’s plans to take the company private, has signed a confidentiality pact with the company that will let him look at its books.
The Blackstone Group has a simila...Mar. 12, 2013 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,080 |
 Two years ago, my team decided to extend our community portal to become “a real”APM Community where members (both commercial and free products) can go to find help and educational content on all topics regarding Application Performance Management (APM). The most critical pieces to that...Mar. 11, 2013 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,701 |
 Reports have resurfaced of Google starting a same-day delivery service in San Francisco called Google Shopping Express for local shops to rival Amazon’s ambitions for its Prime business.
Couriers will evidently pick up the parcels.
TechCrunch claims the service will cost somewhere ...Mar. 11, 2013 07:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,606 |
 In this post, I will cover adoption - one of the key things to be aware of when you're aiming for high adoption levels is that without focus on the aforementioned requirements, adoption will be low. I've been writing these in order for a reason - in order to drive high adoption levels,...Mar. 9, 2013 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,302 |
 Google and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility may have to break down and start paying Microsoft royalties on the IP Redmond claims is in Android like the rest of the Android ecosystem.
That is if they want to keep Google Maps alive in Germany.
FOSS Patents reported Thursday that the ...Mar. 10, 2013 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,657 |
 Sharp, the big Apple supplier fighting for its life, is going to sell a roughly 3% position in itself to Samsung, which is an even bigger Apple supplier and one of Sharp’s biggest rivals.
The price is reportedly about a cheap $112 million, below market value.
Sharp is trying to cla...Mar. 7, 2013 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,628 |
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