After announcing a partnership earlier this year, IBM now announces it's intent to acquire the business and prediction elements of the Weather Company. The Weather Channel, the TV presence that…
IBM buys The Weather Company..
Amazon imports cloud data with Snowball
In 2009, Amazon created a service which allowed you send them your own hard disk, and have the data from it imported into their cloud. Snowball, the updated service Amazon…
Three Bottlenecks of WAN – Bandwidth, Latency and Cost
There are three bottlenecks to Wide Area Networks (WANs) that don't exist in other environments, and these are Bandwidth, Latency and Cost. (And in true three pronged problem fashion, you…
Cisco buys OpenDNS
OpenDNS has been acquired by Cisco . The innovative company that provided a managed DNS service under the guise of security becomes part of the networking giant. The OpenDNS team…
Avago to buy Broadcom for $37bn
Avago Technologies is going to spend $37bn in acquiring rival Broadcom . This makes it the largest ship technology merger to date. Avago which initially was part of HP's test…
Ipanema Technologies acquired by InfoVista
Yesterday Ipanema Technologies was acquired by InfoVista, with an announcement in this press release. Given that InfoVista doesn't have an Application Performance Guarantee solution in its portfolio, it's unlikely that…
Shutdown or startup ESXi Virtual Machines from the Host Command Line
Sometimes you need to be able to shutdown or startup virtual machines when all you have is a command-line prompt on the server itself. So how do we achieve this…
IBM partners for Weather Company datastream
You might think that the weather is important. Certainly, here in the UK, I do, every time I step outside the office. But did you know that ice-cream manufacturers need…