Fragmentation of the Android platform is being blamed for a decline in developer enthusiasm for the mobile OS, but the real fragmentation challenge for app developers is a much broader issue than just Android.
Granted, there are some fragmentation hurdles that seem to be unique to Android. Compared with other mobile platforms–especially Apple’s iOS–the diversity of hardware capabilities and form factors, and the variety of flavors of Android currently in use can make it more complex to develop and test apps for Android.
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April 27, 2011 at 12:16 pm The PC vs. Mac debate has zealots on both sides, and any debate on the matter is sure to elicit passionate responses. But, did those people choose to be a PC or a Mac, or was that decision made for them?
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April 27, 2011 at 6:13 am LabTech Software, a powerful and robust Remote Monitoring, Management (RMM) and Automation solution for managed services, today announced the release of LabTech 2011, with new features and enhancements highlighting LabTech’s commitment to the channel. The company’s continuing and rapid development of new features that resonate with current and future partners have put LabTech even further ahead of competitors in speed and capabilities. Learn more about LabTech’s next waves of innovation in the LabTech 2011 Roadmap.
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April 27, 2011 at 12:19 am Acquired by Dell last November to help businesses “reap the full value of cloud computing,” Boomi is getting a facelift to help customers achieve greater enterprise efficiency while leveraging existing IT investments. According to the 2011 InformationWeek Analytics State of Cloud Computing Survey, integration is one of the six major areas being underfunded or ignored by CIOs. Dell wants to offer streamlined integration connections across the enterprise.
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April 26, 2011 at 6:22 pm For the fourth installment in NETWORK COMPUTING’s five-part examination of the changes transforming the data center, we start with the shot heard around the IT world, when in March 2009, network powerhouse Cisco announced that it was taking on its server/data center rivals–HP, IBM and Sun (now Oracle)–with its Unified Computing System strategy, a.k.a. Project California. In a video supporting the March 16 announcement, John Chambers said, “It isn’t just a new technology, it’s an approach to virtualization and to the data center that is very unique in the industry.”
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April 26, 2011 at 12:17 pm With the release of ILIO 2.0, a software virtual appliance that complements Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) deployments, Atlantis Computing says that it is cutting VDI CapEx costs by up to 75 percent while enabling the use of lower-cost storage options. Pricing starts at $ 150 per desktop, as opposed to the as much as $ 1,000 per desktop VDI users must pay for storage to achieve a level of performance comparable to a physical PC.
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April 26, 2011 at 6:12 am Amazon’s EC2 cloud went dark last week–knocking sites like Foursquare, Reddit, and Quora offline, and affecting hundreds of Amazon cloud customers. The outage is a black eye for the young cloud services industry and gives businesses a reason to think twice about trusting servers or data storage in the cloud.
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April 25, 2011 at 12:17 pm HP on Monday introduced a package of a half dozen IT consulting services whose goal is to help client firms better align their business and IT strategies. The HP Strategic IT Advisory Services portfolio is designed to help chief information officers (CIOs) better achieve business goals through effective use of information technology.
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April 25, 2011 at 6:30 am Just weeks after Rackspace Hosting unveiled Rackspace Cloud Builders, a new professional cloud services offering based on OpenStack that helps enterprises deploy private cloud services, the company is officially launching Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers. Designed to be easy to set up and use, highly configurable and interoperable with cloud servers or dedicated servers, the automated component distributes workloads across multiple cloud servers to minimize response time and avoid server overload. Features include static IP addresses, built-in high availability, multiple protocols and algorithms, API and control panel access, and session persistence. According to Gartner’s recent 2010 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting report, Rackspace is the market-share leader in managed hosting.
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April 25, 2011 at 12:31 am Launched less than a year ago, the Dell Kace K1000 Management Appliance line, that combines general system management features with specific end-point security features, is getting a facelift. The most significant updates to V5.3 include easier license management, new Dell warranty integration, and an improved Windows agent that simplifies deployment to Windows-based systems.
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April 24, 2011 at 6:59 pm 