Stories by Joab Jackson

VMware launches network-savvy cloud service

VMware has launched its long-anticipated public infrastructure as a service (IaaS), touting its virtual networking capabilities as a differentiator from other established hybrid cloud offerings.

By Joab Jackson | 21 May, 2013 19:16

Tags: cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, VMware

IBM launches Watson customer service smart bot

Yoking cognitive computing with customer service, IBM has launched a system that can reference large amounts of unstructured data to help companies better field customer phone calls.

By Joab Jackson | 21 May, 2013 16:51

Tags: applications, Customer Relationship Management, IBM, software

Atlassian gives Jira a makeover

Atlassian has revamped the Jira bug tracking tool with a new user interface, which the company said will offer faster navigation and a simplified workflow.

By Joab Jackson | 21 May, 2013 14:03

Tags: Development tools, application development, atlassian, software

Planview overhauls the look of its portfolio management software

Planview has updated the interface of its flagship project portfolio management (PPM) software to make it easier to navigate and appealing to a wider range of potential users.

By Joab Jackson | 20 May, 2013 22:36

Tags: applications, Planview, software, project management

Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

By Joab Jackson | 16 May, 2013 22:13

Tags: applications, data mining, software, tibco, data protection, Data management

Google eases Android app development with a new IDE

Google has introduced an IDE (integrated developer environment) aimed at easing development of Android apps.

By Joab Jackson | 16 May, 2013 19:10

Tags: Development tools, application development, Android OS, Google, Google I/O, Mobile OSes, software, mobile

Google makes Go faster

Google has updated its Go programming language, making it faster and more suitable for multicore processors.

By Joab Jackson | 14 May, 2013 20:44

Tags: application development, Languages and standards, Google, software

Microsoft rushes Explorer 8 patch release

Just 11 days after issuing an advisory, Microsoft has released a patch for a bug in Internet Explorer 8 that bedeviled the U.S. Department of Labor earlier this month.

By Joab Jackson | 14 May, 2013 20:11

Tags: patches, Microsoft, security, patch management, Exploits / vulnerabilities

Rackspace to help customers debug their programs

Facing fierce competition in the market for cloud services, hosting provider Rackspace has pledged to help its users debug the programs they'll run on Rackspace's OpenStack platform.

By Joab Jackson | 14 May, 2013 17:29

Tags: application development, Managed Services, software, cloud computing, internet, rackspace

HP updates IT automation suite for cloud deployments

Further pursuing its strategy to help enterprises move workloads to hosted environments, Hewlett-Packard has updated a number of its IT management tools with more capabilities to work with public and private clouds.

By Joab Jackson | 13 May, 2013 16:52

Tags: maintenance, software, Hewlett-Packard

HP Q&A: Converged Cloud is company's chief initiative

Saar Gillai, named head of Hewlett-Packard's Cloud operations in January, is on the hot seat.

By Joab Jackson | 10 May, 2013 20:39

Tags: cloud computing, internet, Infrastructure services, Hewlett-Packard

Facebook to design an open source switch

As part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), Facebook's network engineering team is leading a project to develop an open source networking switch.

By Joab Jackson | 08 May, 2013 20:57

Tags: Open Compute Alliance, networking hardware, open source, Networking, routers, software, switches, Facebook

VMware: Faster app provisioning makes SDN a keeper

Software defined networking (SDN) is generating a lot of buzz these days, but the technology will ultimately make itself useful in the enterprise largely because it will save enterprises time in deploying new applications, predicted Martin Casado, chief architect of networking at VMware.

By Joab Jackson | 08 May, 2013 20:33

Tags: virtualization, Networking, VMware

Cray offers a more modest supercomputer for the enterprise

Supercomputer manufacturer Cray has expanded its portfolio of systems for the technical enterprise market.

By Joab Jackson | 07 May, 2013 22:17

Tags: supercomputers, High performance, hardware systems, Cray

Dell boosts Cloud portfolio with Enstratius buy

Adding to its portfolio of IT management software, Dell has acquired Enstratius (formerly called EnStratus), which offers software for managing workloads in hosted cloud environments.

By Joab Jackson | 06 May, 2013 16:54

Tags: business issues, Dell, Mergers and acquisitions

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