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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Cisco, EMC, and VMware Partner on Giant Cloud Data-Center Thing

data_center_oldThe long-rumored data center partnership between Cisco, EMC and VMware is at last a reality. The three companies have formed a new joint venture called Acadia. Its purpose: To sell and support V-Block, an integrated data center product that combines Cisco’s Unified Computing System, EMC’s storage equipment, and VMware’s virtualization technology.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Microsoft Bails on “Family Guy” Special

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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

LIVE: Google Apps Event–Q&A With Dave Girouard

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Q: How much revenue flows through this (Apps)? A: Hundreds of millions of dollars…that’s as explicit as we’re going to get.

Q: How is the company dealing with Microsoft and its entrenchment in this particular sector? A: Long meandering answer that ends with this: The company has a new App Reseller program that it debuted in April. It will give it more feet on the street and expand the ecosystem.

That’s a start, I suppose.

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LIVE: Google Apps Event–”The Enterprise Cloud”

The title of this morning’s presentation is “Google Apps: The Enterprise Cloud.” Presiding over it, Andrew Kovaks from Google’s cloud computing team and Dave Girouard, president of Google’s Enterprise division. According to the schedule provided, it will feature a CIO roundtable discussion as well as some new product demos.

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LIVE: Google Apps Event

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In a year, Google Apps will be “night and day from what they are today.” That’s what Dave Girouard, president of Google’s Enterprise division, told attendees of the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Technology Conference last week. Today we’ll likely find out whether that was truly a foretelling of things to come or more Google braggadocio. At an event in San Francisco, Google was set to discuss the future of its productivity suite and some enhancements that may begin to close the gap with Microsoft Office. Click through for a live blog of the event.

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Monday, March 30, 2009

IBM’s Partly Cloudy Manifesto

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

What the Hell’s Going On With Sun?

Who said the M&A market is dead? Sun Microsystems said this morning that it has acquired Q-layer, a company that automates cloud computing deployments. Meanwhile, Sun shares have been trading higher for a few days now, inexplicably up about 20 percent vs. Nasdaq, which isn’t doing nearly as well.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Macworld ’09: iWork ’09, iWork.com

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Number two on Phil Schiller’s list of three announcements: iWork ’09. The next iteration of Keynote, Apple’s presentation application, offers some new object transition features: object zoom, a swing transition (Schiller demos it with a Bush-to-Obama slide that gets a laugh from the audience). There are also some new text transitions and chart animations. Finally, Apple’s offering a Keynote Remote application. It’s an iPhone app, of course.

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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Rock Band Meets the Beatles

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Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Google Polishes Off Chrome

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Saturday, August 2, 2008

DHS: Terrorism? We Thought You Said “War on Tourism”

Overseas travel to the U.S. has plummeted in the past five years, and it may well plummet further thanks to The Department of Homeland Security’s recently revealed border policy on laptops, iPods and other electronics carried into the country by travelers.

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Tuesday, July 8, 2008

VMware: The Agony of Defeat

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Monday, March 3, 2008

New From Microsoft: Google Apps

In a May 1995 memo entitled “The Internet Tidal Wave,” Microsoft (MSFT) founder Bill Gates declared that the Internet was the “most important single development” since the IBM PC, one that was fast becoming a global communications and computing medium. “I have gone through several stages of increasing my views of its importance,” he [...]

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Google ‘Not-Office’ Finally Completed

Soldiering on in its quest not to compete with Microsoft’s core office-productivity software business, Google last night added another component to its Web-based productivity suite– Google Sites. Created from JotSpot, the hosted wiki platform Google acquired back in 2006, Sites is essentially a lightweight version of Microsoft’s business collaboration program SharePoint.

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Friday, February 15, 2008

Amazon’s Partly Cloudy Computing

The S3 service is great but this just proves you can’t rely on it, this is a major issue especially since it’s been down for so long. Way to go Amazon.”
–a post on Amazon’s Simple Storage Service forum
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) suffered a “massive” outage this morning, impacting a number of businesses that rely [...]

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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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