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HP, like many tech companies, has its hands in a few pots as the industry shifts to a broadened space spanning mobility and the enterprise. We’ve been covering Hewlett-Packard’s strategy to tap the growing and modestly tapped enterprise security market for quite …
VMware Launches View for Mac, Linux, Kindle Fire
VMware launched VMware View Clients for three new platforms today, noticeably expanding the market for its desktop virtualization software. The clients, currently available as technology previews support Mac, Linux and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The Linux version can already be downloaded via the Ubuntu …
YouSendIt and Other Top iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps
YouSendIt launched its iPad and Android app this week, making its cloud-based sharing and collaboration features available to tablet, along with other platforms. it’s a big step for YouSendIt as it expands its services as well as its business model. For many …
This Week in Cloud: PaaS, Virtualization Leading Trends
This week platform services were a major highlight, thanks to a few interesting developments surfaced from a number of the more high-ranking cloud vendors. For starters, Microsoft upgraded Azure with the addition of Node.js support, and rolled out the early product of a …
Xeround Changes Agenda after $9M in Funding
Xeround is realizing its shift of focus from database management to offering public cloud database services now that it has raised $9 million in its third round of funding. Existing investors Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership as well as Benchmark Capital and …
IBM Builds Out Cloud Analytics with Latest Buy
IBM is expanding its Smart Cloud commerce initiative – and its analytics portfolio as a whole by doing a lot of M&E. Yesterday the company announced that it has acquired Emptoris for an undisclosed amount. The Burlington, Mass-based Emptoris provides cloud and …
HP Cuts Execs’ Exit Packs
HP’s shareholders have expressed concern about the compensation the two previous CEOs received after leaving the company. Leo Apotheker received 156, 000 shares of restricted stock worth about $3.6 million at the time, and prior to that Mark Hurd received much more– …
Storage Wars Part 3: How is HP Doing with 3PAR?
The continuation of Wikibon’s Storage Wars series (see here for Part 1 and Part 2) looks into how Hewlett-Packard managed to integrate 3PAR into the company in relation to today’s storage market. Overall, they’ve done a pretty good job. Wikibon covered six areas …
Microsoft Takes its Smartphone Goals to the Outer Limit
Microsoft has gotten itself head-deep into the mobile industry with Windows Phone 7, and perhaps to a broader extent with the upcoming Windows 8 due sometime in 2012. In addition the company made some of its apps available for Android and iOS, …
Broadcom Expands to Computer Accessories, Sees Growth in Mobile
Broadcom is anxious to catch up with Cisco and Juniper Networks in certain areas, which own the vast majority of market share in the networking universe. The company is seeing steady growth, and its latest product is bound to attract some addition …