Archive for June, 2012
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Opportunities And Trends In Virtualization
Virtualization and its many flavors has been one of the most dominating and influential technologies that has evolved over the past five years. While the technology has gained wide acceptance, it is also seen as a key element behind the cloud computing wave that is sweeping the IT landscape today. Indian IT partners have started […]
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
India hosts 30 percent of global top R&D companies
According to research firm Zinnov, currently 30 percent of the top 1,000 R&D spenders across verticals have a presence in India. As per the report titled “Global R&D Benchmarking Study: FY2011†released, there is a total installed talent pool of 2,20,000 in MNC subsidiaries in India and these MNCs have spent USD 7-7.5 billion on […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
AMD embraces ARM
AMD is now embracing ARM to beat Intel with 2 major announcements recently: AMD, ARM, Imagination, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments would be joining forces to form the HSAÂ (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation. MediaTek is one of the leading wireless chipset and are very important supplier in the low cost smart phones. The companies will work […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
If AWS is the Walmart of cloud, is OpenStack the Soviet Union?
The Cloud Faceoff! The stage was set for a lively debate between public cloud rivals at GigaOM Structure in San Francisco Thursday – representatives from Citrix, Eucalyptus and the OpenStack project certainly delivered. Nebula CEO and OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp didn’t even get past the introductions before he challenged his fellow panelists on their “closed†[…]
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
Cloning Amazon Is a Dead End, Says Cloud Rival Rackspace
Does the rest of the cloud computing world really need to clone Amazon Web Services in order to succeed? Probably not, says Lew Moorman, the president of Rackspace, the San Antonio, Texas, company that plays second fiddle to Amazon in the cloud game. According to him, some customers want companies like his to clone all […]
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
My quote in Times Crest
From the The online vigilantes In a similar vein, industry watcher and erstwhile journalist Prakash Advani says, “For any democratic country, freedom of speech is important… And even though ours is a democracy, it is not easy for people to express their opinions freely… groups like Anonymous have found ways to express themselves. “
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Saturday, June 9th, 2012
Another ARM Server form MiTAC
After Dell and HP, now MiTAC has announced that they are doing an ARM server. 1.6 GHz 4 Cores Ubuntu 12.04 4U Rack server with 64 CPU and 256 Cores 32-Bit processor Read More.
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
Galaxy S III sets Android pre-order record
From TG Daily.. UK carrier Vodafone has confirmed that it has received more pre-orders for the device than any other Android phone in history. Finally Samsung has an Apple killer! [amazon_enhanced asin=”B0080DJ6CM” container=”” container_class=”” price=”All” background_color=”FFFFFF” link_color=”000000″ text_color=”0000FF” /]
