LaCie has a large market share in Europe and Japan, markets Seagate is interested to get their brand into. More of note is LaCie had enjoyed a fruitful relationship with Apple, being the primary pioneer in the use of a new external storage technology,...
At the 2011 hostingcon conference, we ran into OnApp's mega-booth right as we entered the exhibit hall. Impressive. These guys must be big, or well-funded. They claim to have some fairly large reference customers that we have heard of, so we decided to take a...
At SpireTech, we spend a lot of time evaluating new technology. For every product or service we offer, there are probably ten that don't make the cut. We thought it would be a good idea to start sharing what we've learned - the good and the bad. Even though this...
Adobe announced that, along with the release of its new Creative Suite 6 they are offering Adobe Creative Cloud service which offers the use of their product suite on a monthly subscription basis. So, if you only need an adobe product for a temporary project and balk...
Google has stepped into the cloud storage arena with its new evolution of Google Docs. The service, named Google Drive, comes with 5GB of free space and payment options for up to 16TB of storage in its cloud. The client software offers central storage for documents,...
Security researchers are trying to get the word out to mac users that the cat is out of the bag: Mac users need to be concerned with viruses as much as anyone else. April saw the largest saturation of mac virus activity ever witnessed, infecting an estimated 600,000...
Windows on an iPad? Ask us how. We thought we'd revisit last month's article about the new iPad (aka the iPad 3) and give our impressions after nearly 30 days of ownership. Is it worth the $500 (at least) to upgrade? How did the upgrade experience go?...
Spire Technologies' offices got a spruce up over the last few weeks with new carpet, floor tiles, and a paint. After a lot of deliberation over color, and a stretch of chaos during the transition, Spire's offices are looking brand spanking new (nothing in the...
We continue to grow. Spire Technologies now has hosting partnerships with two of the largest forces in the virtualization industry. Both VMware and Citrix have been innovators and leaders in the expanding market of virtualized computing and cloud based services; such...
Apple has released it's newest iteration of iPad tablet and remains dominant in the tablet market. The original iPad's release was a revolution in modern personal computing and the new iPad lives up to it's origins. The new iPad includes some nice upgrades to the...