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VMworld 2012 Day 1 Wrap Up
Cube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante sat down to reflect on the main highlights from Day 1 of VMworld 2012, providing an overview of the company and the rest of the market in this emerging era of data infrastructure. Vellante first brings up the CEO Roundtable, which featured EMC’s Joe Tucci, VMware chief Pat ...
IBM Takes On SAP, Oracle with Latest Buy
Big Blue is taking on SAP and Oracle with the acquisition of Kenexa, a provider of HR consultancy and services that plays in the same pond as Success Factors. IBM agreed to pay $46 per Kenexa share, 42 percent more than the stock’s closing price on Friday and just 22 cents more than what KNXA ...
It’s Official: Avamar In, vSphere Data Recovery Out
Earlier this month sources in the channel leaked that EMC and VMware will make a move to align their data center software agendas by integrating the storage vendor’s Avamar DR software with the 5.1 release of vSphere, and today the rumors were confirmed. The two companies released a joint announcement that includes some more details ...
Savvis Collaborates with the Channel to Offer Wider Range of Services
Savvis is launching its new Enterprise Cloud Ecosystem Program today, which provides third party vendors with the tools they need to integrate their solutions with the company’s own line-up. Savvis is a cloud infrastructure service provider that offers a lot of the standard stuff you might expect, such as consulting, enterprise content management and migration. ...
Symantec, OpsCode Integrate with VMware @VMworld 2012
Security software maker Symantec and cloud automation provider OpsCode both announced tighter integration with VMware’s data center virtualization solutions today, just as the company’s annual event is kicking into higher gear. Symantec’s update is the more extensive one: the company debuted new software and upgraded a few of its existing offerings for VMware environments. The ...
Nirvanix Teams Up with TwinStrata, Rounds Out Storage Offering
Cloud storage startup Nirvanix has aligned itself with TwinStrata to create an integrated solution that is more accessible for enterprises. The Nirvanix-CloudArray couples Nirvanix storage with Twin Strata’s CloudArray, a solution that makes it easier to integrate off-site resources into an existing environment by creating so-called ‘cloud SANs.’ What the two firms are offering is ...
iA Writer for iPad Tops This Week’s Tablet Business Apps
Quite a few interesting apps made it to this roundup this week, including two new launches and one writing app that’s set out to draw it’s own path. iA Writer is a steal for one buck: it doesn’t let you change the default font and you can’t change any settings, but it does a pretty ...
This Week in Big Data: Cheaper Hardware, A New Hadoop Alternative and Funding to Go Round
Another week of stand out big data updates. The first one comes from a European firm named Compuverde, which unveiled new software that makes analytics more viable for enterprises. Organizations want the level of control and security that an on-premise deployment has to offer, but IT departments are having a harder time when it comes ...
This Week in the Cloud: OpenStack, Backup and AWS Glacier
A lot of updates from the cloud crossed the wire this week, including one big advancement for the OpenStack community. Piston Cloud, a distributor of the cloud OS, unveiled a simplified version of OpenStack that can be deployed in less than 10 minutes. This is a big deal because the full-fledged platform requires the configuration ...
Flash Memory Summit: From Toshiba’s Comeback to Flash Cache and Consistent Performance
This week’s Flash Memory Summit expo featured a lot of new products, both from industry veterans and less known vendor that are trying to make a name for themselves. Toshiba, the inventor of NAND flash – memory that can retain data even when it’s not powered – celebrated the 25th anniversary of the technology with ...
