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…
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…
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…
IBM adds SoftLayer to Cloud Services
IBM has finalised its deal with SoftLayer, announced last month. This grows IBM's capability to deliver cloud-based solutions considerably. SoftLayer adds new datacenters, an existing portfolio of customers, and a…
Will the Thailand floods prompt a move to SSDs?
With ASUS announcing that it will run out of hard disks at the end of the next month , since new ones are not being produced in enough numbers to…
Riverbed Stingray
The recent acquisitions by Riverbed of Aptimize and Zeus (to provide A to Z coverage?) have now been integrated into the Riverbed family. See Riverbed goes shopping for godly web…
RIP: John McCarthy, founding father of artificial intelligence
Computing is losing a generation of legends. Following the recent deaths of Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie, today I learnt of the death of John McCarthy, founding father of artificial…