In a bid to capture more cloud customers, Google has reduced prices on its existing virtual servers by 5% and added 36 selections to the four previously available in its Compute Engine server catalog.
802.11ac: 5 Steps to Prepare for Next-Gen WLANs
The 802.11ac wireless standard will be ratified in 2013, and pre-standard consumer hardware is on the market. Follow these five steps to prepare now for the day when 802.11ac comes knocking.
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Holiday Gift Guide
It’s the time of the season to make a list and check it twice. We’ve assembled a holiday wish list for work and play, including tools to improve your mobile life, gaming gadgets, and tablet alternatives for those who already have, or don’t want, an Apple in their stockings.
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Cisco Broadens Management Capabilities with Cloupia Acquisition
Cisco’s Cloupia purchase extends the company’s ability to manage third-party data center and cloud systems.
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Intel On The Wrong Side Of Moore’s Law
ARM’s stellar performance provides a hint at what Intel must do in the next decade to stay ahead in the chip business.
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NetApp Quietly Absorbs CacheIQ
NetApp has acquired flash-memory caching startup CacheIQ and says it will discontinue CacheIQ’s product line, but it isn’t saying much about why.
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Intel’s Next CEO Must Reverse Years of Mobile Neglect
Intel built an unbeatable infrastructure for PC and server chips—which gives it zero advantage in meeting fundamentally different requirements for mobile chip design.
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Dell’s Gale Buy Points To Cloud Focus
Dell announced Friday that it is buying Gale Technologies, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of IT management, automation and orchestration tools. Financial terms were not disclosed.
The acquisition announcement came less than 24 hours after the Texas IT giant announced massive revenue losses for the most recent fiscal quarter. The Gale deal is a possible silver lining amidst the glum news, as the purchase should bring improvements to Active System, the company’s converged infrastructure platform.
Dell’s stock slid in after-hours trading Thursday after it revealed that third-quarter revenue fell 47%. The company was quick to point out, however, that its server and networking business grew 11% — and it’s fair to see the qualification as more than PR spin.
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Dear Cisco, Please Don’t Screw Up Meraki
Cisco’s $ 1.2 billion acquisition of competing WLAN vendor Meraki has me worried that Meraki’s top-notch tech support and customer responsiveness will get lost inside Cisco’s big-network culture.
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Palo Alto Networks Virtualizes Firewall, Adds New Hardware
Palo Alto’s new VM-Series is a virtualized firewall for VMware environments. The company also launched two new hardware appliances, and upgraded its cloud-based WildFire anti-malware service.
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