As any CIO or IT manager is quick to add, the cloud’s benefits can’t come at the expense of security. Even minor breaches can have big implications, ranging from a PR nightmare and class action lawsuits when confidential customer information is compromised, to jail time if it turns out that lax security policies violated laws. Continue Reading »

There are fundamentally challenging questions that companies will be forced to grapple with as they decide what cloud functionality suits them best. The central issues include security, cost, scalability and integration. Continue Reading »

Today, there are at least a dozen up-and-coming languages vying to become the next C++ or Java. Continue Reading »

Developers believe that SMB 2.2 will allow compliant applications to deliver significantly faster performance, along with greater scalability and reliability, in virtualized and cloud environments. And given the vast majority of workloads running on host-based systems today are Windows-based, they have reason to believe that Microsoft can also gain a leg up on some of its platform competitors. Continue Reading »

I read with great interest the 'breaking story' of letsbuy.com getting acquired by flipkart.com. This development is in complete sync with my article on Vulture Commerce and many others (links at the end of the story). This is what I believe, happened behind the scenes. Continue Reading »

In a move that comes as little surprise, Kodak has officially announced that it will no longer be pursuing the digital camera market. Such a decision was in the making, since the company had filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. The company will phase out all digital camera sales within the first half of this year. Continue Reading »

Facebook would be submitting the initial paperwork for the $5 billion IPO today, according to a latest report from the Reuters. The social network is expected to raise as much as $10 billion, which will value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion, making it one of the largest IPOs. Continue Reading »

Apple has surpassed HP in the global PC shipments, according to a recent report from market research firm Canalys. The report, which took into account desktops, laptops, netbooks, and tablet PCs, points out that Apple shipped more than 15 million iPad tablets and 5 million Mac (laptops and desktops) in the fourth quarter, taking 17 percent share of the total 120 million client PCs shipped worldwide. HP, on the other hand, shipped 12.7 percent of the total PCs in the same period. Continue Reading »

Apple reported record-breaking sales this quarter. The company sold 37.04 million iPhones and 15.43 million iPads in the last Holiday quarter. Continue Reading »

RIM’s co CEO Jim Balsillie and co-chairman Mike Lazaridis are stepping down from their respective posts and making way for Thorsten Heins as the new CEO. The Canadian mobile phone company has suffered an unusually rapid decline of fortunes in the past year or so. Continue Reading »