The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: AnswerQi Quick Pitch: AnswerQi provides on-demand tech help. Genius Idea: A TaskRabbit for technology problems. Maybe you need your Goolgle [...]

It is tough to complete a marathon even if you aren’t paralyzed. But what if you had a bionic suit on your side? That changes everything, as a 32-year-old English woman just proved. It may have taken 16 days, but Claire Lomas did finish the London Marathon this week. She became the first person in [...]

  Trying new APIs is tricky. You can spend hours setting things up, gaining permissions, and learning syntax before you even get to write one line of code. That’s why CodeNow.com is cool. In short, it allows you to try APIs before you invest too much time into them and, as an added bonus, it [...]

  As you may have seen over the weekend, someone has discovered a security hole in FileVault, which arose with the OS X Lion security update, version 10.7.3, back in February: FileVault encryption passwords are now visible in plain text outside of a computer’s encrypted area. The hole was apparently spotted by someone back in [...]

  The iPad has, quite quickly, become the tablet of choice for enterprises, with some 97 percent of all tablet activations in Q1 of 2012 attributable to Apple’s tablet, according to Good Technology. So it comes as no surprise that apps are rushing into the wake of those purchases to make the iPad more work-friendly. [...]

  Online education has been around for years, but they were largely viewed as experiments. Over the last year, things have changed. Elite universities are not only taking online education seriously, they’re building it into their 10-year plans. Harvard and MIT’s EdX is one example, Coursera another, while startups like CodeAcademy, Treehouse, StraighterLine, Khan Academy, [...]

Alliance Storage Technologies, Inc. (ASTI) announced an improvement to their direct attached and network attached storage libraries designed for professional data archiving. These Plasmon Ultra Density Optical (UDO) libraries are storage solutions for regulatory compliant data archiving and now offer greater business value. This new advancement enables businesses to more efficiently archive large amounts of data over the [...]

Top ones of IT Brand Pulse April 2012 Brand Leaders for VMs IT Brand Pulse, a source of data and analysis about IT infrastructure, announced the results of the April 2012 Brand Leader Awards survey. In this edition survey, respondents were asked which vendors they perceive as the leader in ten categories of Infrastructure for [...]

  When it comes to the impact of storage on virtualization projects, IT administrators are more concerned about performance issues and less about cost than they were a year ago, according to a 2012 State of the Private Cloud Survey byDataCore Software Corporation. Go to Source

According to Cisco Global Cloud Index The Cisco Global Cloud Index is an ongoing effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic. The forecast includes trends associated with data center virtualization and cloud computing. Go to Source