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Bring Your Nintendo Switch To The Cloud With Raspberry Pi 4

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 17:55:09 +0000

As Hackaday reasonably points out, the mobile nature of the Nintendo Switch makes it a perfect device for cloud gaming services; something which has completely escaped Nintendo's attention even years after launch. …

Qualcomm Announces the Cloud AI 100: Dedicated Power-Efficient AI Processing for the Cloud

Jim Tanous — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:30:00 +0000

Last year, several models of Qualcomm’s mobile chipsets gained AI acceleration capabilities. Now, Qualcomm is leveraging its custom hardware and networking expertise to introduce a new solution for dedicated cloud-based AI processing.…

Das Keyboard Launches Q-Series Cloud Connected RGB Keyboards

Sebastian Peak — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 17:31:50 +0000

Das Keyboard has introduced their Q-series of "smart, cloud-connected keyboards" which use the company's Q-software to bring notifications directly to key backlighting. It's an interesting concept, and the software connects to both IFTTT and…

Free hat! The Clouds are opening up, time to put on Fedora 21

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:40:56 +0000

Fedora 21 has been released in three different flavours, each intended for a different usage scenario. The Server version is designed for exactly what it sounds like while the new Cloud version…

BitTorrent Sync; faster than OneDrive, Dropbox and Drive?

Jeremy Hellstrom — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 20:34:51 +0000

BitTorrent is good for more than just downloading files of various natures, it has a tool called Sync which performs a similar task to solutions like Dropbox only more privately and apparently…

Adobe Virtualizes Photoshop to the Creative Cloud

Scott Michaud — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:07:30 +0000

The Creative Cloud subscription service from Adobe allows users to pay a monthly fee to have access to one or every available product. This ranges from Photoshop, to Illustrator, to After Effects,…

Western Digital My Passport Wireless – Mobile Wireless Terabytes

Allyn Malventano — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:00:00 +0000

Introduction, Specifications and Packaging WD’s new wireless HDD offers extremely versatile storage on the go! Introduction: Today I'm going to talk to you about something you might not have thought you needed,…

VMWare makes vCloud Connector free

Jeremy Hellstrom — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:21:41 +0000

Getting familiar with virtualization, especially VMWare's take on the technology is a wise decision for anyone planning on starting or continuing a career in IT. Even if you never end up hosting…

CES 2014: Connected Data shows Transporter and new Transporter Sync at Storage Visions

Allyn Malventano — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 08:14:59 +0000

At Storage Visions, we checked out the Connected Data Transporter as well as the recently launched Transporter Sync: I love the idea of having DropBox-like functionaity without having to pay a bunch…

A peacful night in O365 land

Jeremy Hellstrom — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 23:23:07 +0000

Microsoft's Azure and its applications such as Office 365 are quickly gaining a reputation and it is not a very good one. On November 11th Azure suffered an outage on some of…

Build your own Pi in the sky; Raspberry flavoured clouds

Jeremy Hellstrom — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:18:08 +0000

Over at MAKE:Blog is an interesting little project for those looking for ideas on what to do with your Raspberry Pi. Using arkOS, a lightweight Linux-based operating system specifically designed for hosting…

Looking back at Azure’s stormy day

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:28:57 +0000

The Register had a chance to conduct a brief interview with the Windows Azure general manager, Mike Neil, about what caused the recent global Azure failure. The beginning was an update pushed…

Verizon Cloud Powered By AMD Seamicro SM15000 Servers

Tim Verry — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 09:59:11 +0000

Verizon is launching its new public cloud later this year and offering both compute and storage to enterprise customers. The Verizon Cloud Compute and Cloud Storage products will be hosted on AMD…

Western Digital launches My Cloud storage device

Allyn Malventano — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 06:42:54 +0000

Imagine a device of a similar form factor to the Western Digital My Book, but instead of USB or Thunderbolt connectivity, you had a Gigabit Ethernet connection and a dual core CPU…

Microsoft’s Azure cloud qualifies as secure

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 21:14:41 +0000

Microsoft just picked up a big win in their battle against IBM and Amazon for a share of the Cloud now that the US Government has certified them as being secure. This…

Kickstarter begins for Transporter: Internet Connected Private Storage

Allyn Malventano — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:12:21 +0000

I was recently briefed on an interesting new product called the Transporter, a file sharing device engineered by the same folks that took part in the creation of the Drobo. Connected Data…

Microsoft is going out of their way to make Office 365 more attractive than its boxed cousin

Jeremy Hellstrom — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:24:48 +0000

Today The Register posted the pricing Microsoft plans for their two new office suites, the familiar semi-yearly upgrade that is Office 2013 and the brand new, yearly licensed cloud dwelling Office 365. …

Windows 8 can go diskless

Jeremy Hellstrom — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:53:31 +0000

Installing Windows from a USB drive is old hat to many, both consumers and professionals, but booting to Windows from an external drive would be a new trick. Windows 8 has been…

TET, ePO and SSO… McAfee and Intel’s Cloud

Jeremy Hellstrom — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:19:42 +0000

Intel’s purchase of AntiVirus vendor McAfee has been feeding rumours and speculation for about 10 months now and while we have plenty of buzzwords and a feeling that they are looking at…

AMD will not chase Intel making “needlessly powerful” CPUs

Scott Michaud — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:52:01 +0000

Bloomberg Businessweek reports AMD CEO Rory Read claims that his company will produce chips which are suited for consumer needs and not to crunch larger and larger bundles of information. They also…