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VDI Poised for Growth: Wikibon
VMware is acquiring VDI-as-a-service provider Desktone as part of a push to dent Citrix’s dominance in the desktop virtualization space. Announced this week at the VMworld 2013 Europe conference in Barcelona, the deal underscores what Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman perceives as the “steady growth” of the virtual desktop infrastructure market. In a fresh piece ...
Tintri Snags Former Wind River President to Accelerate Growth
Tintri, a Mountain View-based startup that provides hybrid storage arrays for virtualized environments, has appointed Ken Klein as chairman and CEO. The executive is stepping into the shoes of founder Kieran Harty, who has assumed the role CTO to play a more active role in shaping his company’s product strategy. An industry veteran with over ...
Bottlenose Visualizes Twitter Firehose Trends with Sonar Solo
Delivering on its commitment to freemium analytics, Bottlenose is rolling out a free version of its newly announced Nerve Center solution for processing streaming data. The startup is filling a much-needed gap in information rights as consumers increasingly expect – and demand – visibility into their personal data exhaust. Unveiled today at the Pivot Conference ...
VMware Brings vCloud Hybrid Service to Europe with First UK Location
First unveiled at VMworld 2013 in September, vCloud Hybrid Service is an IaaS solution that competes with AWS over the 60 percent of organizations that utilize VMware software in their IT environments. The virtualization giant is now launching a new data center in Slough, 20 miles west of London, to make the platform available for ...
Backup and Recovery in the Spotlight with New Funding, Innovation
Historically a pain point, backup is quickly becoming an asset for many enterprises as vendors push the envelope on security and bring analytics into the mix. The Sunnyvale, California-based Druva is a leader in realizing the potential of data protection as a source of tangible business value. Established in 2008, the startup offers a device-independent ...
Automating Complexity : The Opportunity in the Challenge for Network Automation
Network Automation is helping companies bridge the IT complexity gap with the latest iteration of its flagship business process automation suite, which was first launched in 2004. The foundation of the product family, AutoMate 10, introduces a streamlined interface and support for over a dozen additional technologies. AutoMate includes an “Action Library” of more than ...
CEOs Pessimistic About Internet of Things, Study Shows
Upper management still doesn’t get connected devices, a new survey by Gartner asserts. The research firm found that the majority of CEOs dismiss the potentially massive impact of smart machines on business as mere hype. Asked about the prospect of the Internet of Things absorbing millions of jobs over the next 15 years, 60 percent ...
Microsoft Jumps into Phablet Craze with New Software
Microsoft is upgrading its Windows Phone operating system to support phablets, smartphone-tablet hybrids with a screen size ranging between five and seven inches. The update will also introduce a number of usability enhancements, including a “driving mode” that notifies callers if the user is too busy to respond immediately. Windows Phone Update 3, as it’s ...
PernixData Reaches out to Practitioners in Bid to Popularize Flash Virtualization
PernixData, a San Jose-based provider of virtualization software, is working to put its platform in the hands of practitioners as part of an aggressive growth strategy that spans innovation and global expansion. Established by Exadata co-founder Poojan Kumar and former VMware storage CTO Satyam Vaghani, PernixData offers a tool that makes server-side flash resources accessible ...
HP CEO Signals Wintel Alliance May Be in Its Final Days
Hewlett Packard is no longer playing by Intel and Microsoft’s rules, CEO Meg Whitman told analysts at a meeting this week. Citing the rapid decline of the traditional PC market, the executive said that her company faces pressure to break out of the Wintel ecosystem and embrace new platforms, namely Android and Chrome OS. While ...
