It’s never a good day at the office when your shares drop by 20% in a
single day. However the relentless drive to produce better results
quarter-on-quarter is what the US stock markets demand of publicly listed
companies such as Fusion-IO. Poor results this week saw their shares
punished by a drop from just over $30 to below $25 today.
This isn’t the first reality check of its kind; think about the untouchable
STEC in the SSD market who’s shares once traded at almost $45 and are now
just under $10. Their demise was competition and the reliance of a single
customer, EMC, who decided one day they had enough supply, thanks, as the SSD
market wasn’t evolving as quickly as they had planned. It seems the
spectre of EMC is about to strike again, as Project Lightning, EMC’s PCIe
SSD device draws close to release on 6th February this year.
Is it all bad for Fusion-IO? P... (more)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the beta of their new storage
gateway functionality that enables access of Amazon S3 (Simple Storage
Services) from your different applications using an appliance installed in
your data center site.
With this beta launch, Amazon joins other startup vendors who are providing
standalone gateway appliance products (e.g. Nasuni, Certa, etc) along with
those who have disappeared from the market (e.g. Cirtas). In addition to
gateway vendors, there are also those with cloud access added to their
software tools such as (e.g. Jungle Disk that access... (more)
London, United Kingdom, January 26, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Global Infrastructure
as a Service (IaaS) firm, Ospero, is proud to announce the launch of its new
"Distribution as a Service" (DaaS) offering, to mark the fifth annual
International Data Privacy Day on 28 January 2012.
With EC Justice Commissioner Viviane Redings’ "Privacy by Design" ethos at
its heart, Ospero’s new DaaS offering will help the software industry
prepare for forthcoming changes to the European Commission Data Directive to
be announced in Q1 2012 by Viviane Reding.
The Ospero DaaS platform is aimed at SaaS, ISVs a... (more)
IGEL now supports Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. IGEL customers will
now be able to leverage IGEL's support of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
3.0 to deploy distributed high-performance, scalable and secure Virtual
Desktop solutions.
Reading, UK January 19, 2012 - IGEL Technology, the world's leading provider
of Linux-based thin clients, today announced its support of Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. The powerful remote-display protocol SPICE in
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has already been available in IGEL thin
client hardware and software for some time. N... (more)
There was an interesting discussion on one of the table-top wargame lists I
belong to (Two Hour Wargames if you follow the hobby) about the
“production value” of a given set of printed products. While it
devolved (as web conversations often seem to) to a comparison with Hollywood,
the point was valid. The original reviewer that caused the thread to get
started was more interested in how pretty the books were than the quality of
the contents. I, personally, don’t care how ugly or mal-produced a wargames
ruleset is if the rules are consistent and provide many hours of enjoyable ... (more)
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