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Dell refreshes converged management platform
Hardware juggernaut Dell is upping the ante on data center management with a new release of Active Systems Manager. The update marks the latest milestone in the company’s effort to cement its foothold in the converged infrastructure space, a fast growing market fueled by increasing demand for simplicity and sustainable scalability. Originally introduced in October ...
HP embraces freemium model amidst global streamlining effort
As CEO Meg Whitman closes in on enterprise services, Hewlett-Packard is venturing beyond familiar ground in pursuit of new revenue opportunities. On Tuesday the company pulled the curtains back on Propel, a new freemium cloud offering designed to make IT resources more accessible to end-users. Propel is a cross-platform ITSM solution that can deliver services ...
Mirantis and IBM team for OpenStack testing
OpenStack is a tough sell in the enterprise. Despite strong industry support, the platform is still immature and suffers from a lack of transparency about how it differentiates itself from VMware vCloud and Amazon Web Services. Mirantis and IBM are hoping to change that with Rally, a new “benchmark-as-a-service” solution that provides unprecedented visibility into ...
DataSift nets $42M for social analytics
DataSift announced on Tuesday that it has raised $42 million in Series C financing to expand into new markets and accelerate the development of its flagship platform, a social media analytics solution used by more than 1,000 companies in 40 countries. DataSift‘s offering lets marketers keep track of consumer sentiment, brand perception and new revenue ...
Zenoss expands into Microsoft ecosystem with new ZenPacks
Unified monitoring provider Zenoss is extending its flagship Service Dynamics suite with two new plug-ins for Windows Server and Azure environments. In a release, Zenoss cited Bloomberg projections that Azure deployments will surpass $1 billion in sales this year thanks to a 20 percent adoption rate among companies that use cloud services. The vendor is ...
Apple buys Topsy to tap Twitter’s firehose
Apple has officially jumped on the Big Data bandwagon with the acquisition of Topsy Labs, a social media analytics startup headquartered in San Francisco. The consumer electronics giant confirmed the buy after insiders leaked the news to the Wall Street Journal, but did not verify claims that the deal is valued at more than $200 ...
Zooming in on GCE: Google gets serious about the public cloud
Google has joined Microsoft and Rackspace on the quest to erode Amazon’s cloud dominance with the launch of its long anticipated platform-as-a-service solution. Originally announced at the company’s sixth annual I/O conference in June 2012, Google Compute Engine features competitive pricing, new capabilities, and a 99.95 percent SLA. Cloud analytics provider RightScale, a Google partner ...
Accenture bolsters Industrial Internet capabilities with European acquisition
Accenture has picked up evopro group’s manufacturing solutions business to fortify its presence in the emerging Industrial Internet, where intelligent machines meet Big Data to drive operational efficiencies. No financial details were disclosed. Founded in 2001, evopro group provides embedded software and services for companies across the automotive, building, logistics and transportation industries, among other ...
Pure Storage, EMC duke it out in court
Less than a month after being hit by a lawsuit from EMC for allegedly colluding with former employees to steal inside information, Pure Storage is firing back at the storage giant with a complaint of its own. The Mountain View, Calif.-based provider of flash arrays denies the charges and accuses Joe Tucci’s company of unlawfully ...
smartShift’s Arjun Chopra on moving traditional enterprises to the Cloud | #re:Invent2013
Arjun Chopra, the chief technology officer of smartShift Technologies, appeared on theCUBE at Amazon’s recently concluded re:Invent 2013 conference to share his insider’s perspective on porting legacy workloads to the public cloud. An AWS Premier Consulting Partner, smartShift helps enterprises re-architect their on-premise applications before shipping them off to an infrastructure-as-a-service environment. That involves removing ...
