After casting a pall on the future of Flash by canceling any further development of Flash on mobile devices last week, Abode has abandoned its Flash-based Flex application SDK to the tender mercies of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), reinforcing the idea that Flash is ultimately toast, burned by rival HTML 5, a posthumous victory [...]
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After wrestling with the problem for three years, ARM has completely defined the 64-bit architecture that’s going to make Intel sweat. Intel hasn’t been able to break ARM’s deadly grip on the lucrative low-power mobile market. Conversely lack of a 64-bit chip has kept ARM out of desktops and servers although HP said Tuesday that [...]
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Comparing itself to kryptonite, Violin Memory thinks it’s got the stuff in hand to put an end to classic mechanical storage arrays in the data center. The disk arrays would be replaced by Violin’s built-from-the-ground-up 6000 Series NAND flash Memory Arrays, which it calls the industry’s first all-silicon storage systems. They’re supposed to have the [...]
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Eucalyptus, the butt of some impudent sass since OpenStack got started last year, says it’s got something other cloud peddlers, open source and otherwise, don’t have, and that’s high availability. So there! The breakthrough makes it the first on-premise IaaS cloud software to deliver enterprise-grade high availability, which should bring in more users since it [...]
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Hotlink Corporation emerged from two-and-a-half-years underground the other day clutching a check for $10 million from a couple of VCs in one hand and a “super-hypervisor” in the other. The start-up’s got a way to make VMware’s vCenter manager natively support Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Citrix’s XenServer and Red Hat’s KVM hypervisors all at the same time [...]
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CumuLogic, the latest Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) start-up, sent its widgetry out into public beta the other day hoping enterprises, cloud providers and ISVs use it to build and manage Java apps in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. It’s after the mid-sized and large enterprises, where Java lives, that want to develop and deploy Java [...]
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Some of the NASA boys mean to get a piece of this promising OpenStack action that they helped create at NASA on the taxpayers’ dime. Former NASA CTO Chris Kemp has started a company called Nebula after his NASA project that will field a customized turnkey OpenStack hardware appliance that’s supposed let businesses – and [...]
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SeaMicro’s back. Four months after it pushed out its revolutionary low-power 64-bit Atom server it’s filled the provocative empty space in the middle of the thing’s five-by-11-inch motherboard to make the dingus denser. The brand new SM10000-64HD – the start-up suffers from the same unimaginative naming conventions as Intel – stuffs 384 dual-core 1.66GHz Atom [...]
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SeaMicro Fields ‘World’s Most Energy-Efficient 64-bit x86 Server’ Google Waves Small White Flag Spooks Get Their Own Cloud Acer Seeks Refuge in the Cloud Dell To Buy Force10 Adobe Sued After Buying EchoSign Google Seeks Nortel Replacement Apple: Blowout Writ Large Cisco To Cut 6,500 Jobs Microsoft Profits Up 30% No Thanks to Windows ITC [...]
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Citrix has gone and bought Cloud.com. It didn’t say what it paid for the open source EC2-aping cloud start-up but TechCrunch puts the number at somewhere between $200 million and $250 million. The three-year-old start-up’s funding from Redpoint Ventures, Nexus Capital and Index Ventures came to an estimated $28.7 million. Scratching its head TechCrunch wonders [...]
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