News

• Ferromagnetics breakthrough could change storage as we know it

  A previously misunderstood magnetic phenomenon has been apparently explained by a paper published on Sunday in Nature Materials – and the explanation could lead to wholesale transformation in magnetic storage.

• iPad 5 rumour rollup for the week ending June 18

  As last week's Apple WWDC faded in the rear view mirror, the iOSphere hungered for more. And the hunger gave birth to hope, and hope to more rumors, including the one that predicts iPad 5 will be announced this week to foil and foul Samsung's scheduled London news.

• What GE's cloud computing foray means for big data

  As if GE doesn't already have enough on its plate, the company entered the cloud computing marketing this week, announcing plans to provide cloud-based analytics services for its industrial customers.

• Forrester: PaaS makes developers happy

  Although the platform as a service (PaaS) market is smaller than both IaaS and SaaS segments of the Cloud computing industry, research firm Forrester says this technology could be one of the most important cloud-based services for businesses moving forward.

• Venture firm Accel makes another huge Big Data bet

  Accel Partners Tuesday announced a $100 million fund to back software companies exploiting the technology foundation built by the first wave of Big Data start-ups.

• Enterasys enhances data center offerings

  Enterasys this week unveiled new switches, software and management products to enhance the automation and centralized control of data center operations.

• IT morphs as tech and users change

  As The consumerisation of IT and self-service trends gain momentum, IT shops are being restructured and IT professionals are learning to play new roles.

• IT isn't going away, says Fox CIO

  The next summer blockbuster out of 20th Century Fox might be called "The Incredible Shrinking Data Center."

• Juniper keeps its simplification promise

  As promised, Juniper has added automation and orchestration features to its campus and data center switches, including OpenStack support.

• OpenVMS, R.I.P.: 1977-2020?

  Hewlett-Packard looks to end support for OpenVMS, a system long valued for its reliability and break-through features, in 2020.

• Google chases Amazon, both drop Cloud prices

  It's become a common scene in the Cloud industry nowadays: Every few weeks or months a Cloud vendor announces a price reduction on its services, and then within a couple of days at least one other competitor announces a price reduction as well. Today, it took just hours.

• Intel's new Haswell chips may be hot, but not in a good way

  Early tests, online discussions and even some OEMs seem to show a potential bump in the road for Intel's latest-generation processor architecture – a bump you can see on a temperature graph.

• Cisco overtakes IBM as top Cloud hardware provider, research firm says

  Cisco has overtaken IBM as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported today.

• A 5-minute Woz brain dump (AKA, 2013 UC Berkeley commencement address)

  Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, a veteran of the college commencement address circuit, shared a free-form talk with UC Berkeley grads last month during their ceremony.

• The key to robust apps and ops: Be your own worst enemy

  Webscale pioneers like Netflix, Google, Amazon and Etsy have made a science of breaking their own applications and infrastructure so that they can determine if their application and operations architecture is complete and robust. While few IT shops run their apps and infrastructure in the same way as these behemoths, valuable lessons for CIOs and CTOs of all stripes can be found in the innovative practices these companies have created.