Cabling vendor R&M has unveiled its new Venus SCM Solution, which it says can offer a minimum bending radius of 40 millimeters.
Microsoft culls list of CEO candidates
Microsoft has shortened its list of CEO candidates to a minimum of eight, including five outsiders and three current executives, according to the Reuters news service.
Application services meet up with SDN in the cloud
Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that picture as well.
Western Digital’s HGST fills hard drives with helium to inflate storage capabilities
More than a year after first announcing the technology, 6TB helium-filled hard drives from Western Digital subsidiary HGST started shipping on Monday.
Big Data: big threat?
“Collecting more and more unstructured data will open up another whole degree of attractiveness and may well lead to attackers seeing value in a form not previously recognised by the organisation that owns the data.”
Taking the cloud public
No technology has bulldozed its way onto the global scene and promised to revolutionise enterprise IT as much as cloud computing.
BlackBerry taps former Sybase chief as interim CEO; analysts like the move
BlackBerry’s appointment Monday of former Sybase CEO John Chen as its next executive board chair and interim CEO could be the best news in months for the struggling smartphone company.
In wake of BlackBerry’s demise, CIOs look to Samsung, Apple and Microsoft
BlackBerry’s dramatic fall in the enterprise has left CIOs scrambling to pick a new mobile platform provider. Will it be Apple? Samsung? Or Microsoft? Or it will be all of the above.
New supercomputer uses SSDs as alternative to DRAM, hard drives
A new supercomputer being deployed this month in the U.S. is using solid-state drive storage as an alternative to DRAM and hard drives, which could help speed up internal data transfers.
Google escalates offensive against Office with Android ‘KitKat’
Google last week again turned the screws on Microsoft and its Office franchise, this time by including Quickoffice with its newest Android mobile operating system, version 4.4 and dubbed “KitKat.”
Cambium Networks ramps up channel play
Cambium Networks aims at recruiting heavily into the channel market by looking at new partners and customers with the launch …
BlackBerry ditches CEO and accepts $1B loan from Fairfax, others
BlackBerry will change its CEO and accept a US$1 billion loan from a consortium involving shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings as it struggles with inventory and strategy problems. The company has abandoned plans to sell itself.
Huawei unveils SDN-ready switch
The Agile Switch S12700 uses a fully-programmable switching architecture, and automatic network deployment and management applications.
HP enjoys networking success, predicts the same for Big Data
HP has transformed its position in the networking space from a year ago and is now ready to do the same with Big Data, according to the heads of its Middle East operations.
Google Apps, once a leader, faces growing cloud app rivals
When Google Apps arrived in 2006, it stood on the cutting edge of Web-hosted email and collaboration suites for businesses, a bold pioneer clearing a path in the new, wild frontier of enterprise cloud computing.
Windows 8 uptake slows, ditch-XP movement decelerates
Windows 8’s user share in October climbed past the 10% milestone for the first time since the launch of the …
Nexus 5 first impressions: It’s the software, stupid
You may still be waiting for your Nexus 5 order to ship, but Google was nice enough to deliver a unit to our offices early Friday morning.
Hadoop commonly used with other big data analytics systems
A study by analyst IDC shows how companies are using the open source Hadoop big data analytics systems alongside other systems to get value out of their data.
Comguard held roadshow on information security in KSA
Cyber Security@Crossroads roadshow enabled enterprises to address their security challenges.
HP’s department merger aims to ‘revolutionise’ storage industry
HP’s policy of ‘Converged Infrastructure’ aims to combine the departments of servers, storage and networking into one arm of the business.