Articles By Nestor Arellano

EMC adds de-duplication to new storage offering

LAS VEGAS – EMC Corp. is working on a new release of its scale-out network attached storage product Isilon OneFS, which will have data deduplication capabilities, new security features and improvements for object-oriented storage, Hadoop HDFS 2.O

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 8th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

EMC has channel plans for big data-focused Pivotal

LAS VEGAS – EMC Corp. sees huge potential for channel partners to offer high-end solutions to enterprise organizations with its new cloud-enabled application platform, Pivotal One, which the datacentre infrastructure vendor touts as

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 7th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

EMC says goodbye to Velocity, hello to EMC Business Partners

LAS VEGAS – For nearly 10 years, Velocity has been the brand for EMC Corp.’s partner programs, but as its Global Partner Summit got underway Monday the IT infrastructure company announced that it

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 6th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

Dell Latitude 10 tablet for remote business

It’s a stretch to say that Dell Latitude 10 tablet would replace the business laptop but for many remote workers the features in this Windows 8-powered device come pretty close. Despite its decidedly

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 25th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

It’s not just RBC outsourcing its IT functions

The outsourcing of 45 IT jobs which got the Royal Bank of Canada and recruitment firm iGate Corp. in hot water  this week is just the tip of the iceberg, a report on

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 11th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

When it comes to BYOD, Canada is No. 1

Canadian companies outpace their global counterparts when it comes to adopting the bring-your-own-device trend and deploying of consumer-type applications in the workplace, according to a recent study. More than 75 per cent of

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 5th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

How fewer data centres saved one SaaS provider big dollars

Software as a service (SaaS) provider BlueSun Inc. managed to drastically cut its IT costs by consolidating its managed hosting contract with separate providers and handing over the hosting of its mission critical

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 28th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

Microsoft drops Office 2013 licensing restrictions

Owners of the retail version of Office 2013 chaffing over Microsoft Corp.’s controversial end-user licensing agreement which permanently tied the software to the first computer it was loaded into have scored a victory. The software

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 6th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

Microsoft has a deal for Azure users

Microsoft Corp. yesterday announced the addition of an automated performance management tool to its cloud service platform Windows Azure. In its official Azure blog site on Tuesday, the software company said it has

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 5th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

Salesforce.com introduces mobile cloud service

Salesforce.com bolstered its mobile offerings with the launch on Tuesday of Service Cloud Mobile, a software product which aims to port its cloud and social tools to multiple mobile devices. Service Cloud Mobile will

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 27th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

Red Hat outlines its big data strategy

Red Hat Inc. today said it is contributing its Storage Hadoop plug-in to the Apache Hadoop open community as part of its big data strategy focused on offering enterprise customers infrastructures and platforms

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 20th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

BlackBerry Z10 breaks all previous launch sales records

Results have come in and it's official. The BlackBerry Z10 with BB10 is a hit. Company CEO Thorsten Heins said BlackBerry Z10 sales is 50 per cent better that any of the company's

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 11th, 2013 Nestor Arellano

Top 10 IT predictions for 2013

Deloitte Canada today released a string of high tech predictions for 2013 largely go against the grain of widely held assumptions. For instance, contrary to popular opinion, consumers are not dumping the personal

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Adobe’s Creative Cloud brings the cloud to creatives

Alongside the launch Monday of its Creative Suite 6, Adobe also unveiled a new cloud-based subscription service called Creative Cloud.The new service does not only involve purchasing software, but also enable users to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: April 25th, 2012 Nestor Arellano

How to deal with Canada’s new anti-spam law

There are no firm dates yet, but authorities intend to implement Canada's anti-spam law sometime this year. If your company does business in Canada or has offices in the country, you need to

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 26th, 2012 Nestor Arellano