Cloud technology vendors cloudTP and Cloudscaling are teaming up to offer customers a one-stop shop for building globally scalable clouds that leverage the open-source OpenStack project.
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Cloudscaling, cloudTP Partner On Scalable, Open Source-Based Cloud Platform
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iPad 3 Is Coming, So Get Top Dollar for Your iPad 2 Now
The iPad 3 rumor mill has shifted away from pure speculation toward acceptance that the next generation Apple tablet truly is imminent. NextWorth.com, a site that deals in buying and selling used electronics equipment, suggests that now is the prime time to trade or sell your iPad 2.
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Aruba Networks Swings Big At BYOD And More With ClearPass
Gone are the days of simply providing good signal in the WLAN environment. Guest requirements, the new reality of the BYOD–or bring your own device–model and increasing reliance on the wireless network as a critical resource combine to make life complicated for us in the business of enterprise wireless networking. Aruba Networks is ready to answer the back-end challenges of contemporary wireless with its new ClearPass framework, and the impressive array of features is not limited to use by Aruba customers.
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Annual e-Discovery Demands, Expenses Skyrocket
The good news is companies are becoming increasingly familiar with predictive coding, but the more unsettling news is they are facing up to $ 20 million in annual e-discovery expenses. According to the third annual study of streamlining and reducing the cost of e-discovery on inside counsel at mostly Fortune 1000 companies, 81% of respondents are familiar with predictive coding to determine whether a document is appropriate to include in a case, states legal industry analyst Ari Kaplan, who conducted the study in tandem with e-discovery provider FTI Technology. Predictive coding is an algorithm that provides the ability to review documents combining artificial intelligence with a lawyer’s input.
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FAST Paper Casts Doubt on SSD Future
At last month’s FAST (File and Storage Technologies) conference researchers from UCSD and Microsoft Research presented a paper, titled The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory, that’s put the rosy all-flash-all-the-time future predicted by some in doubt for the long term. The gist of the paper’s argument is that the physics of flash, and the researcher’s testing, indicate that as flash density increases, the life and performance of flash will degrade to the point that by 2024 flash will no longer be a viable solution.
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AppSense Unveils Smartphone Encryption
DataLocker, which will enable smartphone users to encrypt sensitive information in personal cloud services like Dropbox, is the first product to come out of the new research arm created by virtualization technology provider AppSense. Intended to create new computing technologies geared at both end users and IT, the focus of AppSense Labs will be “to research technologies that include cloud, mobile and data, and to build prototype products that bring a consumer experience to IT,” the company says.
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Nook Tablet Is Not Really a Kindle Fire Threat
Barnes and Noble is preparing to launch a new Nook Tablet designed to go head-to-head with the Amazon Kindle Fire at $ 199. The Nook Tablet seems like a solid, capable device, but it is more likely to offer competition for Android tablets in general than for the Kindle Fire.
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Cisco And Deloitte Wrong: Good Practices More Impactful Than Vendor Choice
Cisco is fighting back against the notion that a multi-vendor network can simplify operations and reduce TCO. The networking giant commissioned a report by Deloitte that finds operation costs will increase over the life of the equipment in a network that uses equipment from disparate vendors. The fact is, one vendor vs. multiple vendors is the wrong fight. Sound management practices and smart production selection will have a bigger impact on your IT costs than the number of vendors you use.
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