Today WinMagic Inc. revealed the results of a survey, conducted by CensusWide, showing that several UK companies are potentially vulnerable to cyber attacks and data breaches due to employee use of cloud storage. The survey was of 1,000 offices with at least 50 employees. The survey found widespread employee use of cloud storage services that

VMworld 2015 US has come and gone. It was definitely a busy year this year with over 23,000 people in attendance. While the conference starts on Monday morning, Sunday brought the usual community event – VMunderground. For the last several years, VMunderground has severed as the unofficial start of the conference. It begins with Opening Acts where community

Pivot3 announced that it has been granted two new patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Both of the new patents are for hyper-convergence technology. The patents are U.S. Patent No. 9,086,821 for its “Method and system for execution of applications in conjunction with RAID” and U.S. Patent No. 9,146,695 for “Method and System

Today NVIDIA announced that Microsoft would be offering its GPU-enabled professional graphics applications and accelerated computing capabilities to enterprise customers through Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. Azure is the first cloud-computing platform to provide NVIDIA GRID 2.0 virtualized graphics for its customers. The partnership between the companies aims to deliver accelerated graphics and high performance computing to

Today HP announced two new workstations, the HP Z240 Tower and the world’s first small form factor workstation, the HP Z240 SFF. Both of the workstations come with next generation Intel processors and HP Z Turbo Drive options. Both of the workstations are also some of the most affordable workstation with price points similar to

Google has announced yet another new cloud technology within its Cloud Platform line, Google Cloud Dataproc. This new cloud technology is aimed at making Hadoop and Spark easier to deploy and manage within Google Cloud Platform. Much like the recent announcement from Dell and Cloudera, this technology allows the use of Hadoop without the high costs

Today Intel released its latest data center SSD, the DC P3608. The P3608 leverages NVMe interface to give it performance up to 850,000 IOPS in 4K random read tests. When paired with Intel’s multi-core Xeon processors, the new SSD can obtain real-world transfer speeds up to 5GB/s. And the P3608 runs in capacities for 1.6TB

QNAP Systems has announced the release of their new enterprise-class 12Gbps SAS-enabled, 40GbE-ready TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP series rackmount NAS, which are available in 24, 16, 15 and 12-bay models. The new rackmount NAS series is also compatible with the high-density 12Gbps SAS RAID expansion enclosures REXP-1620U-RP and REXP-1220U-RP. In addition, the TVS-ECx80U-SAS-RP comes equipped with Qtier Technology, which

Just a week after QNAP’s announcement about their new TS-x63U NAS Series, the company revealed that the TVS-871T line is now shipping, their new networked storage appliance designed to offer photographers and high definition video producers an efficient way to manage content.  The new TVS-871T is the industry’s first hybrid NAS/DAS/iSCSI IP-SAN to offer direct storage access