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Samsung enters gaming business with cloud technology from Gaikai
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Samsung plans to enter the game business through a cloud-gaming service that is powered by game-streaming startup Gaikai. The Korean electronics giant plans to announce the service at next week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). It could be a big change for the game industry, since it offers the tantalizing possibility...
Facebook careers: SMB marketing associates, account managers, Arabic user operations analyst and more
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Facebook added job listings for a number of advertising-focused positions, including several SMB marketing associates, account managers and a manager of sales and a global marketing solutions position based in Buenos Aires. New listings added to the Facebook Careers Page: Executive Assistant, Public Policy (Washington) Research Manager (Menlo Park) Manager, ODM/OEM...
Facebook careers: SMB marketing associates, account managers, Arabic user operations analyst and more
Facebook Future-Proofs Data Center With Revamped Network
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Facebook’s new computing facility in western North Carolina is quite different from the data center opened just a year earlier in Prineville, Oregon. Photo: Facebook When Facebook started work on its new data center in Forest City, North Carolina, the idea was to create pretty much an exact copy of...
Demand for the ‘iPad 3’ soars ahead of launch event
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Demand for Apple’s next iPad is reaching a fever pitch, with nearly one-third of mobile Web users telling the ad network inMobi that they intend to buy Apple’s third-generation iPad. Just under 30 percent of respondents said that they intend to buy an iPad 3, and 44 percent of respondents...
Amazon Flash Drives Put Cloud Into Overdrive
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Amazon just flashed its cloud service. Image: mnsc/Flickr You’ll find it inside the top secret data centers that run Google. It provides extra speed at Apple, Facebook, Dropbox, and countless other operations across the web. And now, Amazon is offering it up to the rest of the world via its...
SoftLayer says its cloud beats Amazon in online gaming. Here’s why.
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It might not be immediately obvious, but online games are a bear on data center infrastructure. To keep players interested, games have to be fast and responsive, they are often played simultaneously by hundreds — if not thousands — of people, and they run flashy, resource-intensive graphics. They’re a pain....
5 fun data center facts from the Uptime Institute
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It’s a tough economy out there. That’s why some figures from the new Uptime Institute’s 2012 Data Center Industry Survey might surprise those who would expect spending on data center infrastructure to be cut to the bone. That’s not true for the majority of the 1,100 owners and operators that...
Wipro builds global cloud for big business
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Wipro’s latest IT foray — a global infrastructure as a service for enterprises — shows how the giant Indian outsourcers are striving to become more strategic cloud partners for their business clients and compete hard for cloud outsourcing money with rivals IBM, CSC, as well as their in-country competitors. According...
The infrastructure of the future will be programmed
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Dante Malagrino, Co-Founder and CEO, Embrane; Jonathan Heiliger, General Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners; Martin Casado, Co-Founder and CTO, Niciria(c)2012 Pinar Ozger pinar@pinarozger.com “Infrastructure of the future will be programmed,” said Dante Malagrinò, co-founder and CEO of Embrane, at GigaOM’s Structure conference on Thursday. That’s a shift from how much...
Facebook career postings: legal, mobile, data centers and more
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Facebook added mobile and data center jobs, among others to its Careers page this week. Interestingly, the company is looking for two mobile app analysts — one to analyze Facebook’s iOS app and another for Android. On LinkedIn, Facebook posted positions for various legal positions, as well as other account staff. Posts added this...
Zynga’s Rob Dyer invites game developers to become publishing partners (interview)
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Rob Dyer is having his coming out party today. He joined the social gaming giant Zynga in October as head of partner publishing, and now he finally gets to tell the world what he’s been doing. Dyer is the man who must convince external game developers to publish their games...
Zynga rolls out faster server infrastructure across all of its games — and opens its API
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Zynga said today it has developed a faster infrastructure for its social games and will make the technology available to third-party game developers through its open third-party platform. The company made the announcement at its Zynga Unleashed. Kostadis Roussos, chief engineer at Zynga, said at the event that the...
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Cisco Buys Software Security Firm Virtuata
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Cisco Systems Inc. said it bought Virtuata, a closely held security software firm, giving the highly acquisitive networking company new tools related to cloud computing and data-center infrastructure. Cisco is in the midst of a turnaround after restructuring last year to focus on core product areas such as routing and...
Facebook hires and departures: engineering, Washington D.C., communication, more
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Facebook’s Careers page notes that a position for Policy Advisor, Privacy in Washington, D.C., was removed this week, and that several engineering positions appear to be filled. Additionally, according to Facebook’s LinkedIn feed, an engineer, a few engineering interns and a platform operations employee were brought on recently. New hires per LinkedIn: Danny Zheng, Data Engineer...
Microsoft launches Office 365 edition for U.S. gov't customers
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Microsoft has released a government-specific edition of its Office 365 cloud-based email and collaboration suite that offers U.S. public-sector customers a cordoned-off data center infrastructure just for them....
Microsoft denies filing E.U. complaint about Google+
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This post has been updated since it was originally published. Microsoft said Tuesday it has not filed a complaint with the European Union about Google+, contrary to a report from Reuters. Jack Evans, a spokesman for Microsoft said that the company had not filed any sort of formal complaint...
Google Shaman Explains Mysteries Of ‘Compute Engine’
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The Google Compute Engine was only announced on Thursday. But at least one software developer has already added the logo to his latte. Image: Flickr/yukop Google started work on the Google Compute Engine over a year and a half ago, and it was all Peter Magnusson could do to keep...
Facebook hires: head of policy, analysts, client partners, engineers, more
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Facebook appears to have hired a head of policy, France, and about two dozen other employees according to listings removed from its careers page, as well as LinkedIn updates. New hires, according to LinkedIn: Aravind Anbudurai, Software Engineer - former Software Development Engineer, IC-1 at Yahoo Edward Ohrns, Sales/Advertising - former Cust Svc II Rep at PSCU Mark...
Cisco Buys Software Security Firm Virtuata
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Cisco said it bought Virtuata, a closely held security software firm, giving the highly acquisitive networking company new tools related to cloud computing and data-center infrastructure....
The Olympian Infrastructure Challenge
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The view of the Olympic Stadium from Cisco House in London, an “executive experience” showcasing the company’s technology. (Image: Cisco) The 2012 Summer Olympics in London will be the most connected Games in history. As the athletes of the world gather to test their skills, tens of millions of sports...
For Facebook, infrastructure concerns loom large
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Beneath all the Zynga games, timelines, likes and pokes, Facebook’s business relies on fast, reliable infrastructure. And infrastructure concerns figure heavily in the risks it faces as it goes public, according to Facebook’s newly released S-1 filing. To put it plainly: Facebook’s and ability to attract, retain and serve users is dependent...
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