Cisco Cloud Strategy, Within and Across Data Centers
The power the cloud brings is in the extreme influential as it can change the impact of IT services. In his general session at Cloud Expo Silicon Valley, Cisco's Simon Aspinall provided insight into what is happening in the cloud and why the it's is critically important for enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses, and service providers in the teleco sector. More...
What Are the Core SaaS, Cloud Skills?
Microsoft's Jobs Blog a during back addressed what that company looks for as "cloud computing skills" in job applicants. The answer? At heart experience with large-scale software-as-a-service projects or infrastructure-as-a-service initiatives. More...
Klint Finley
Editor's note: Every December the ReadWriteWeb team looks into the murky depths of the coming year and tries to predict the future. How did we do last year? Then, Facebook didn't go public, Google Wave didn't make a comeback, and Spotify didn't make it to the U. More...
The White Rose Food building is located in Carteret
The White Rose Food building is located in Carteret, New Jersey and serves as White Rose Food's corporate offices and as a major hub in its distribution network. More...
What you need to know about the year of the cloud
Not many companies have as many servers as Intel, now cloud computing, public or private, is all about scale. With a combination of so then-managed virtualization, data center automation, and self-service tools, each system admin can handle a magnitude more servers -- from an average of around 100 to thousands, according to Bob Muglia, president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Division. More...
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From robot cars to wind farms, Google's expansive ambitions have taken it into some surprising corners of the tech field. Here's another it could tackle: Becoming your telephone company. More...
Number of unprecedented things
This year happened a number of unprecedented things: Nvidia disclosed its short-term and long-term roadmaps and during no details were revealed, the direction of the company became furthermore obvious, OCZ Innovation decided to drop the business of inexpensive memory modules to concentrate on solid-state drives, Panasonic grabbed exclusive rights onto Blu-ray 3D version of Avatar movie and ex-Sony executives expressed doubts that the PlayStation 3 could win the war against Xbox 360 and Wii. More...
Skype may announce new video calling service at upcoming CES
Luxembourg-based VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) provider Skype reportedly posted a teaser message which recommended that the company could announce a video calling service for Apple's iPhone at January's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. More...
Top acquisitions in the IT industry in 2010
Japanese telecommunications operator, NTT, acquired Dimension Data, for $US3. 2 billion. NTT said the deal, suggested by both companies' boards of directors, would allow it to offer new IT services worldwide in the age of cloud computing. More...
Skype explains outage, offers vouchers to customers
A systemwide failure which took down the popular VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service for about 24 hours beginning at 4pm GMT December 22 was caused by a server overload, chief information officer Lars Rabbe disclosed on Wednesday. More...