Quickflix: “We’ve got to get ourselves to profitability”
Late last year, online movie and DVD rental service, Quickflix, found itself in a sticky financial situation and entered a trading halt, pending an announcement about a capital raising.
Late last year, online movie and DVD rental service, Quickflix, found itself in a sticky financial situation and entered a trading halt, pending an announcement about a capital raising.
Research firm says modern apps require elastic infrastructure and multichannel clients, while mobile apps are just one component of larger app architecture
Online video streaming company -- and heavy Amazon cloud user -- Netflix has open sourced Janitor Monkey, a tool that finds unused cloud resources and deletes them, leading to potentially valuable cost savings for customers.
On Christmas Eve as Netflix customers cuddled up to watch their favorite holiday movies and TV shows with friends and family, many experienced a problem. Netflix was down.
Netflix, which faced an interruption of its video streaming service on Christmas Eve, had problems again on Monday related to its DVD website.
Netflix has restored its streaming video services, after Christmas outages related to problems with Amazon's online computing platform.
Netflix has started publishing a monthly ranking of U.S. Internet service providers, using its large number of video streams to compare download times.
How "public" are public Facebook posts?
New Aruba Networks controllers scale more than ever, and let IT groups dissect and optimize WLAN traffic by application for each user.
For Netflix vice-president of digital supply chain Kevin McEntee, the US-based video streaming company's shift to using the cloud for transcoding its massive content library comes down to a modern take on the fable of the tortoise and the hare.
Well, as we are just a hop, skip and an eggnog away from putting on silly hats, drinking champagne, and kissing random people as we bid goodbye to the year, it behooves me to look into the digital rearview mirror and ponder what we can see rushing away from us.
<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/041811-sourcefire-intrusion-prevention-system.html">Sourcefire</a> Monday said it expects to begin shipping its first two next-generation firewall appliances later this month, entering an increasingly crowded market.
Netflix designed its cloud architecture so that it has the option to move to an Amazon Web Services competitor, but doesn't expect a real competitor to emerge for a few years, a Netflix executive said on Wednesday.
Hewlett-Packard's decision to retain its vast PC division likely offers some insight into the type of company new CEO Meg Whitman and her team want to lead.
In rejecting the idea of <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221272/HP_to_keep_PC_division_rejects_spin_off_idea">getting rid</a> of its PC division, Hewlett-Packard Co. and its new CEO Meg Whitman, also made some decisions about the type of company they want.