Archive for the ‘Industry News’ Category

Dell grows enterprise storage business with $1.15B 3PAR acquisition

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Dell on Monday announced it will be acquiring virtualized storage company 3PAR for $1.5 billion to grow its storage portfolio and complement its PowerVault, EqualLogic, and EMC-licensed solutions. 3PAR’s claim to fame is its unique approach to storage architecture. The...
August 16th, 2010 | Industry News | Read More

LG-Ericsson joint venture launches in the U.S.

By Tim Conneally, Betanews The enterprise telecommunications joint venture formerly known as Edgecore Networks today officially launched in the United States under the new name, LG-Ericsson USA. The joint venture is made up of South Korean electronics maker LG, Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson,...
August 16th, 2010 | Hardware, Industry News | Read More

10 great alternatives to Google Wave

By Steven Walling, Betanews Real-time collaboration app Google Wave was officially added to the dead pool this week. Despite plenty of hype and excitement, it failed to attract the adoption that Google hoped for. The site itself is expected to stay up through the end of the year, but users are likely...
August 6th, 2010 | Industry News, Software | Read More

Microsoft wants to park a cloud container in your driveway

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Cloud computing dominated the morning’s Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2010 presentations. COO Kevin Turner and Chief Research Strategy Officer Craig Mundie spent more time talking cloud computing than any other topic. For Mundie, it was a bold departure from previous...
July 29th, 2010 | Hardware, Industry News, Security, Software | Read More

70% of Microsoft cloud ‘wins’ are new customers

By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Microsoft COO Kevin Turner made the bold statement this morning during the company’s annual FInancial Analyst Meeting. “One of the most exciting things about our cloud strategy is that 70 percent of the wins in the cloud that we had in Q4, ladies and gentlemen, were...
July 29th, 2010 | Industry News, Software | Read More

Google announces Apps for Government in light of LA rollout delays

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Following news over the weekend that it had missed the deadline to provide the city government of Los Angeles with its own email and collaboration infrastructure, Google today announced “Google Apps for Government”. Google Apps for Government provides more secure...
July 26th, 2010 | Industry News, Security, Software | Read More

Marvell simplifies Plug Computing for developers with new installation tool

By Tim Conneally, Betanews As powerful chips are being made physically smaller, cheaper, and significantly less energy consumptive than previous generations, they can be used in places where computers hadn’t gone before. More tasks can be automated and measured, more systems can be networked together,...
July 20th, 2010 | Hardware, Industry News, Software | Read More