Macworld 2012: Conference at a crossroads
By day, an Expo getting serious again about refocusing on the user. By night, a bit gritty and underground.
By day, an Expo getting serious again about refocusing on the user. By night, a bit gritty and underground.
Company claims that it can half power and cooling costs in data centres as it announces a raft of products at its Las Vegas conferences
Some future trends in storage are obvious: we'll need more of it, it'll be cheaper per megabyte, and a lot of it will be virtualised.However, despite all that cost reduction activity, the amount enterprises are spending on storage is, somewhat surprisingly, actually on the rise.
All conferences involve a measure of back-slapping, but Oracle has gone too far this year — it's forgotten that it needs to tell attendees about the future.
There's no shortage of EdTech conferences around. Here's a look at this spring's.
Microsoft is running an ad in USA Today, in the form of an open letter to VMware customers, asking them to talk to Microsoft before signing a contract that might lock them in to a less-than-complete cloud solution from Redmond's foremost virtualization rival.
News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
This last fortnight there’s been a cacophony of hyperbole and at times marketing fluff from vendors and analysts with regards to Reference Architectures and Converged Infrastructures. As IBM launched PureSystems, NetApp & Cisco decided it was also a good time to reiterate their strong partnership with FlexPod.
I had many questions about Bitcoin (BTC) and how it works. Some of them got answered.
The predominant storage-related issue at the METAmorphosis 2001 and 2002 conferences was cost control. However, the tone and conversation at the 2003 conference changed back to the forward-looking networked storage deployment theme that had existed prior