News and Analysis
Google, NASA Team On Quantum Computing
May 20, 2013
NASA, Google and university researchers get access to new quantum computer, as NASA tackles complex problems ranging from air traffic to robotics.
Smartphone Theft: What Is Best Defense?
May 17, 2013
While mobile network operators are creating a global database to track stolen smartphones, some police say that's not enough. New York's Attorney General wants more from smartphone makers.
Amazon, Microsoft Partner Up for Cloud Management
May 16, 2013
New software lets Microsoft System Center users manage both AWS and Windows Azure cloud services from a single console.
VMware Fights Android BYOD Headaches
May 16, 2013
VMware's BYOD ambitions kick into gear through its partnership with Verizon. But is the virtualization heavyweight making its mobile management play too late?
At EMC, Scale Out Storage Grows Up
May 15, 2013
EMC shows that scale-out storage systems aren't just for big pools of unstructured data.
Iron Mountain Opens Underground Data Center to All
May 14, 2013
The Pennsylvania site will provide data center space and related services, and customers will be able to take advantage of the company's retail colocation offering.
Software Hot, Hardware Not, At EMC World, Interop
May 14, 2013
The EMC World and Interop conferences showed technology forces reshaping the storage and networking ecosystems and the data center's future -- forces largely driven by software.
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