Posted on 24 May 2010 by jjkomplett
Internet security firm Webroot has announced it is to establish its international headquarters in Dublin, creating 50 jobs over the next two years.
An IDA announcement on the move was released today which reveals that the new operation will act as the headquarters for all of Webroot’s global business outside of the US. Its initial activities will include sales, marketing, localisation, engineering, inventory and fulfilment, customer support, and certain shared services functions.
Posted on 30 March 2010 by jjkomplett
While many companies have cited the ‘green’ virtues of moving towards the use of cloud computing over the past few years, it appears Greenpeace aren’t such big fans. In fact, the environmental campaigners are to release a report this week which claims that the cloud of data that is becoming the heart of the internet is creating an “all-too-real cloud of pollution” in the USA as Facebook, Apple and others build data centres powered by coal.
‘Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google have at least some centres that rely heavily on coal power.’
A Reuters report on the story says that a Facebook facility being built in Oregon will rely on a utility whose main fuel is coal, while Apple is building a data warehouse in a North Carolina region that relies mostly on coal, the environmental organisation said in the study.
Posted on 18 February 2010 by jjkomplett
EMC country manager Chris Roche is one of the people currently trying to talk the Government into moving towards developing a cloud computing strategy and in the coming days he is due to head towards Dáil Éireann to speak with Government officials including An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen about the possibility of an accelerated approach to the idea.
Chris Roche, EMC
EMC itself is billed as a company that can provide “the systems, software, and services to leverage one of your most strategic assets – your business data”. With that in mind we also talked to Roche about whether Irish companies – and our Government – are willing to spend the cash to ensure they have the right systems to protect their data and whether or not the Irish workforce lives up to that oft-used ‘smart economy’ tag.
Posted on 13 January 2010 by jjkomplett
Google has announced that over the next few weeks they’re expanding the capabilities of Google Docs to give you the ability to upload all file types to the cloud. As Google Docs now supports files up to 250 MB, the great unwashed have been told have been told that it’s now possible to backup “large graphics files, RAW photos, ZIP archives and much more to the cloud”.
Google Docs may have increased capabilities but also increased competition
One of the offshoots of this move may be some damage to the USB drive market as many out there may see Google Docs as a more convenient, and cheaper, option for accessing your files on different computers. For any Google Apps Premier Edition customers (anyone?… anyone?… Bueller?) they have been told that they will now also be able to “seamlessly upload many files at once and sync them with their desktop in real time using third party applications”. Look for the bubble notification when you sign in to Google Docs over the next few weeks to confirm that these features have arrived.
Posted on 03 December 2009 by komplettie
Intel is moving us well into the future by showing off what it feels could well be the processor of tomorrow. It’s 48-core processor doesn’t have a codename for now, but it’s been dubbed by Intel the “single-chip cloud computer.”
Perhaps most interesting is that the prototype of the chip shown off, which boasts so very many cores that we can’t begin to guess at what they’ll call it (dual core and quad core don’t quite cut it), is that it should, when finished, only consume around the same amount of power as two standard light bulbs. This, we’re told, is thanks to some new power management arrangement Intel has been putting together.
It’s also curious to see just what Intel imagines the chip will see use for. From Intel’s own piece on its upcoming chip,
Posted on 09 July 2009 by komplettie
It’s pretty well known that Bill Gates has been a major proponent of cloud computing for years, but now we have word that Microsoft Office is finally making a move into the cloud… we just don’t know quite how yet.
Techcrunch is reporting that Microsoft will make its big announcement about Microsoft Office’s new web-enabled future this coming Monday, which means that (if Microsoft manages to present the whole affair in a decent manner) it might manage to pull enough attention to Office’s cloud move to eclipse the announcement of Chrome OS a bit.
