Brighton & Sussex NHS Trust deploys Microsoft private cloud
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying Microsoft’s Hyper- V private cloud platform, to help deliver improved services for desktop PCs and unified communication and collaboration across its entire IT estate. The move will allow the Trust to depart from its existing shared service model and benefit from the advantages of a private […]
Heavy Reading study says mobile cloud will rule
The mobile cloud is set to ‘subsume’ cloud computing as we currently know it, according to a study released yesterday by Heavy Reading. Despite cloud’s obvious benefits to the business enterprise, it is the mobile industry where recent hype has centred, with much of the focus based on how companies such as Google, Apple and […]
Samsung overtakes Nokia in mobile phone shipments
Samsung Electronics has overtaken Nokia to become the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, according to research firm Strategy Analytics. Nokia took the top spot in 1998 from Motorola, but in the first quarter of 2012 Samsung shipped 93m phones compared to almost 83m by Nokia. Samsung also reported its highest quarterly profit since 2008. […]
RIM launches BlackBerry Mobile Fusion for iOS, Android devices
Research In Motion (RIM) has finally launched BlackBerry Mobile Fusion for iOS and Android-based devices. The mobile company announced Mobile Fusion last year. The service allows government and business customers to manage devices across BlackBerry OS, iOS, and Android from a Web-based console. According to the company, Mobile Fusion includes support for multiple devices per […]
Four years later, South Florida’s worst recession only hints at a real recovery
About 3 years ago in the depths of the recession, contractor George Cuesta was once hoping to land a small resort renovation process in South seaside. He didn’t get it, however no one else did either. The gutted construction sat idle off twenty second side road when the investment fell aside, as pigeons nested at […]
Dell’s New Enterprise Solutions All About End-to-End Speed and Simplicity
Dell used to be a company with a clever sales strategy that sold PCs, but it has increasingly focused on the IT/data center market. Dell has proved that as of late with a slew of acquisitions (a dozen just in the last year or so) and a substantial investment in R&D, and today it announced […]
The Curious Case of Big Data
The advent of technologies that instantly analyze natural human language, along with the massive amounts and varieties of big data flowing from sensors, mobile devices, and the Web, are helping today’s data pioneers find answers as well as new questions to ask. Big-data technologies and new roles like the data scientist will enable companies and […]
When in the Cloud, Trust – but Verify
Quite a lot has been written about the importance of due-diligence in a cloud environment. Sometimes the importance of security and compliance-related vetting in the cloud is easy to justify, like when you’re evaluating an off-premises public cloud hosted at a new service provider. Other times, executives might take some convincing, like when you’re talking […]
FBI seeks social media monitoring tool
In a move that’s unlikely to sit well with privacy advocates, the FBI has begun scouting for a tool that will allow it to gather and mine data from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. The objective is to use the software to stay on most sensible of breaking occasions, incidents and emerging threats, […]
Is GDrive Ready to Come Out of Its Shell?
Google may soon launch a paid cloud storage service called Drive, five years after it first came up with the idea. Google Drive will let consumers store documents, photographs and videos on Google’s servers for sharing and easy accessibility from any Web-connected device, The Wall Street Journal reported. It is expected to be free for […]
Oracle squashes 78 software bugs in latest patch
Oracle yesterday deployed 78 different security fixes aimed at patching holes throughout its various database products. As part of the company’s January critical patch update, 16 of the 78 fixes were considered critical, meaning they could be exploited remotely. The fixes stretched across much of Oracle’s product lineup, including Oracle Database Server, Fusion Middleware, E-Business […]
How a private cloud goes beyond virtualization management
At first blush, personal clouds can glance a lot like virtualization. but first looks can be deceiving. at the same time as it’s certainly real that we see virtualization control merchandise prolonged–as an example, with self-carrier portals–in ways that lead them to look superficially like clouds, we’re in point of fact talking about other classes […]
World travelers beware: 4G LTE phones won’t work abroad
LTE may be the global standard for next-generation wireless networks, but that doesn’t mean you can take your 4G Verizon Wireless phone abroad and expect to roam on other 4G networks. In this edition of Ask Maggie, I explain the sad reality of why you can’t take a U.S. 4G LTE phone and expect to […]
How mobile affected the datacenter in 2011
While the topic of green datacenters tends to hold the attention of myself and other datacenter folks and the various changes in the datacenter facility model have captured the majority of the ink on datacenter issues in 2011, a look back really does show that other topics have actually had more impact on the everyday […]
Future data center expansion will be happening in developing markets.
Future data center expansion will be happening in developing markets like China, Brazil and Argentina, but such locations may not meet the requirements of data centers today and the requirements that will be necessary in the future. In fact, these five regions may not be the most obvious places to build a data center, but […]
Facebook new data-center Prineville, Oregon: Population, 800 Million
Web giants like Google and Amazon are notoriously secretive about what goes on inside the worldwide network of data centers that serve up their sweeping collection of web services. They call it a security measure, but clearly, they also see these facilities as some sort of competitive advantage their online rivals mustn’t lay eyes on. […]