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IT resource optimization company Gale Technologies announced a new product today, the Gale Scheduler for VMware Clouds. Scheduler aims to further increase the cost efficiency of virtualization by optimizing the resource allocation to virtual machines. This helps avoid VM sprawl, or the overuse …
Convirture Unveils vCenter for the Open-source Cloud
Open-source cloud management software maker Convirture is trying to bridge the gap in the open cloud space with a new product company founder and chief executive Arsalan Farooq refers to as “VMware vCenter for the rest of us.” The new offering, ConVirt …
Mobile Workers Slack Off to be More Productive
Smartphone and tablet technology is still maturing, but it has already managed to establish a foothold in the office, and this trend is moving forward fast. Mobile devices have several obvious advantages to workers, including convenient access to company resources, better collaboration …
Big Data Travels around the World, Too
Big data analytics is picking up momentum worldwide, and most companies have already started to dig into their stockpile of data in one way or another, for a variety of reasons. Not all are using data analytics products that can, for example, …
Dell Updates EqualLogic Portfolio Amidst HP 3PAR Takeover
Dell today refreshed its storage portfolio with the introduction of two new iSCSI storage arrays. The PS4100 and PS6100 control arrays will be replacing the existing PS4000 and PS6000 models, bringing with them support for 2.5-inch disk drives. The PST4100 is offered …
EnterpriseDB Takes on Oracle with Latest Launch
EnterpriseDB, a developer of Postgres tools, launched the Postgres Enterprise Manager today. Enterprise Manager is a PostgreSQL and Postgres Plus Advanced Server monitoring program that is now available to existing EnterpriseDB clients for download, and as a standalone subscription. Unlike other common monitoring …
Oracle Considers Purchase of HP’s Enterprise Business
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has his eyes on long time rival Hewlett-Packard, or at least its enterprise business. According to an unnamed insider there’s a chance Oracle may acquire HP now that the latter’s stock is falling, saying that this move is “inevitable” if …
Gluster Adds Hadoop Support to Storage Offering
Gluster, a maker of open-source storage software, announced GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 today. The major addition this update brings is the introduction of Hadoop support, a move that likely made Gluster’s platform suddenly much more interesting for a lot of new clients. …
VMware Resorting to Facebook Referrals for New Blood
EMC virtulization subsidiary VMware is taking a new approach to recruiting new workers via social media. Instead of using LinkedIn alone, the business-oriented social network that recently had a very successful IPO, the company is going after a relatively untapped, bigger pool …
Weekly App Round Up: MobileIron to Splashtop
Both the iPad and Android Honeycomb are gaining traction among business users as the trend towards smarter tablets becomes more and more powerful in the consumer space, and developers are quick to follow with new applications. We’ve rounded up five tablet business …