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Quantum is offering up a new cloud platform that’s designed to give clients a more flexible means of backing up their data. The company already has a strong portfolio and is building on that to pump in a lot of business into …
Latest in Hadoop: MapR Extends Support, Partnerships
Commercial Hadoop distributer MapR had some big news today from the Stracture big data conference. It revealed a whole new line-up of data connectivity options that extend the range of applications and database clients running its platform can connect to. The functionality …
Not Much Difference in Strata and Structure Conferences: It’s All about Data, Again
Hadoop can easily be named one of the fastest growing open source technologies in IT. The big data ecosystem is also growing like crazy, and the industry has been paying attention. The Strata conference was held earlier this month, an event dedicated …
ScaleXtreme Bringing Cloud Automation to iOS
ScaleXtreme is a maker of server automation software that has been very busy with R&D over the past few months. The latest update from the company addresses the mobile and general BYOD trends many of its enterprise clients have likely adopted. ScaleXtreme’s …
Texas School District Chooses VCE to Power Students
The Tyler Independent School District, the largest in Northeast Texas, is leveraging technology from the EMC-backed VCE to power over 27 schools–a total of about 20,000 students and faculty. “Looking to expand students’ ability to learn beyond a seven-hour school day, five …
Zayo Acquisitions do a Double Take: Arialink Buy Beefs Up Networking Rivalries
The networking industry’s M&A scene has been very active recently, with several major deals announced throughout the past few weeks. The Zayo Group, a fiber infrastructure solutions provider, can now account for not one but two of those items. This morning, shortly …
Broadcom Makes 10th Acquisition in Israel with BroadLight Deal
Broadcom announced that it has finalized an agreement to acquire BroadLight for $230 million. The two companies share more than just similar names: both Broadcom and the Israeli-based Broadlight make chips designed for networking purposes, which is why it’s rather easy to …
Cisco’s Latest Push Addresses BYOD’s Evolution
Cisco is still very much a networking company–it’s only expanding its horizons, and is actively spilling into some of the newer segments of IT that overlap with its core market. The cloud is one example, and now there’s mobile. The Bring Your …
HP’s Printer Unit to Integrate with PC Group: Rumor
HP has been through a lot of turmoil in the last couple of years, from the huge cuts in R&D budget under Mark Hurd to the prospect of Leo Apotheker spinning off the $42 billion PC-making Personal Systems Group. Today CEO Meg …
OnApp Takes on Amazon with a New Breed of Cloud
Amazon Web Services is the titan of the platform-as-a-service space, a status it has achieved thanks to its level of service, maintained by its sheer scale and reach today. As always, however, the IT market is an extremely competitive one, and OnApp …