So the Pokemon Go app has been launched on both Apple and Android.. A new breed of ARG (Alternative Reality Game), and one that potentially has the marketing might to…
Microsoft buys LinkedIn for the data?
In an unusual move, Microsoft has announced that it will acquire LinkedIn. The deal announced yesterday (13 June 2016) for $26.2bn. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner posted the update to his…
Brocade to create a Ruckus in the wireless space
Brocade is building diversity into its current business, moving further away from the SAN switching with which it made it's name. Today, Brocade completes their acquisition of Ruckus Wireless, giving…
Quintillion acquires Arctic Fibre
Quintillion has acquired Arctic Fibre, the Toronto, Canada based company, intending to provide a polar routed fibre between Europe and Japan. On Quintillion's webpage (Arctic Fibre Acquired by Quintillion Networks),…
Boaty McBoatface and the challenge of Internet polls
In March, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), which funds the British Antarctic Survey, opened a competition. This was to name the new research vessel that will operate in the…
Amazon imports cloud data with Snowball
In 2009, Amazon created a service which allowed you send them your own hard disk, and have the data from it imported into their cloud. Snowball, the updated service Amazon…
Ipanema Technologies acquired by InfoVista
Yesterday Ipanema Technologies was acquired by InfoVista, with an announcement in this press release. Given that InfoVista doesn't have an Application Performance Guarantee solution in its portfolio, it's unlikely that…
Shutdown or startup ESXi Virtual Machines from the Host Command Line
Sometimes you need to be able to shutdown or startup virtual machines when all you have is a command-line prompt on the server itself. So how do we achieve this…