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Virtualization giant VMware announced VMware Zimbra 7, the latest version of its cloud email and collaboration platform. This announcement comes amidst some executive turbulence the company is going through regarding its President and other executives, but Zimbra’s shiny new features are helping …
Last.fm Will Make Mobile Users Pay
After continuously and gradually losing ground and (millions of dollars) to competitors, the once completely free Last.fm’s music streaming apps will now become paid ones (unless your a WP7 user). Last.fm claims it’s the world’s largest free music catalog, and as of …
Violin Memory Gets Stuffed with Cash, Juniper Networks Invests in $35M Round
Cloud scaling company Violin Memory announced it has raised $35 in Series B funding from multiple investors, including new investor Juniper Networks and Toshiba America Electronic Components. A single Violin 3140 is said to support 40TB worth of Flash storage and 10K Flash …
Windows Phone 7 Mobile Apps Get Love Too
Digital marketplaces are cropping up all over the place, especially in the mobile sector. An infographic by WP AppHab details the status of Windows Phone 7 from the app angle; all 8000+ of them. Paid apps have the largest share of the …
Clouds Develop Over Open Territory: This Week’s Trends
SiliconANGLE is there at the Strata Conference and conducting interviews with all the biggest names attending, but the cloud has been active from other angels as well. The open cloud takes a very big chunk of our list, with Rackspace’s announcement of …
Strata Conference Recap: Day 3 Keynotes
The O’Reilly Strata Conference has given us insight into the world of big data, how it’s being used and what the future holds for this specific aspect of cloud management. We’ve been covering the conference extensively, highlighting keynotes and panels, as well …
Social Media and the Cloud Changing Corporate Culture
Social media can be a sticky subject for corporations, especially large and ominous ones that have been around since the age of the dinosaurs (that counts as anything dating back to pre-FDR days, by the way). But social media has become an …
Cisco to Acquire Inlet Technologies for $95M
WSJ reports that Cisco has made plans to acquire video solutions provider Inlet Technologies for $95 million to strengthen its video streaming offerings. Cisco is sitting on a huge stockpile of teleconferencing and home networking resources. This being a major segment for …
Making Data Work in the Real World: Theme of the Week at Strata 2011
We’ve been streaming live from the 2011 Strata Conference all week, and there were certainly a lot of things going on these past two days. The first highlight to discuss is the Strata Real World Applications Panel which included of 4 industry …
OpenStack Steady on Update Releases, Bexar Widens the Cloud
Rackspace pushed out a Bexar code release for OpenStack Compute and OpenStack Storage today. The update comes with new features and a dedicated documentation site, preempting the launch of the next two code releases this Cactus and Diablo. The Bexar release of …