EMC today releases its Project Lightning PCIe flash cards. The 300GB VFCache cards are used to cache and store information directly on the server. This acts as a bridge between the storage layer and the processor offering very high throughput and low-latency alone the way.   Couple this with FAST – Fully Automated Storage Tiering [...]

Right. This one really bugs me. Out for dinner or beers and somebody – if not everybody keeps checking, texting, using their mobile. You spend the night being constantly interrupted, only having half conversations and not really getting anywhere… Sound familiar Try this the next time you are out for dinner with a group of [...]

Source: The Growth of Social Media: An Infographic

Research in Motion (RIM) have just launched Blackberry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 ‘BlackBerry Business Cloud Services delivers a simple and affordable way for companies to manage BlackBerry smartphones with Microsoft® Office 365.   This service is available at no additional charge to Microsoft Office 365 subscribers. This secure service, hosted by Research [...]

Twitter Hack Week 2012   Small teams of staff split out into groups and work on any project of their choice – no interference from management – this is purely down to the teams to come up with something new.  Nice way to drive innovation into any org if you ask me.   One project [...]

Mozy Stash is now in public Beta.   A new product arrives into public beta from Mozy.  Mozy Stash is a file syncronisation feature that allows users to keep their most frequent data up to date.  Once you place a file in your stash it becomes available across all your computers instantly – no need for a [...]

Due to hit Earth on Tuesday (Today) is the biggest Solar storm and radiation blast since 2005. This is due to an eruption that happened on Jan 22 which has launched a shed load of energized solar particles towards us at about 2,000 kilometers per second. Dont panic just yet as there is no direct [...]

  Popular link-shortening service Bit.ly is today announcing the launch of Bitly Enterprise 2.0, a new version of its enterprise-friendly dashboard. The Bitly Enterprise platform, which helps businesses with multiple social media accounts monitor the impacts of their content’s distribution, will now include the first production release of the company’s brand-new search technology, allowing customers to track [...]

  Amazon just added a new cloud computing service to its suite of Amazon Web Services, a distributed database called DynamoDB. Web applications can spike suddenly in demand or grow so big that they tax traditional databases, or even clusters of traditional databases, which are hard to maintain, especially for smaller companies. With DynamoDB, Amazon [...]

US product management guru Rich Mironov was in Dublin this week to speak with Irish companies about agile product management and how that aligns to product ownership. He also spoke about the current post-graduate qualification in product management for the Irish software and technology sectors developed by a group of Irish software companies which are [...]