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Millennial Media Beats Market Expectations with Q2 Earnings
Millennial Media held an earnings call for its second quarter this week, and while losses widened considerably the company reported some stellar growth that did not disappoint Wall Street. Millennial lost $2.2 million, or 3 cents a share, compared with $152,000 a year earlier, or 9 cents a share. The company’s operating expenses nearly doubled, but ...
Garantia Debuts In-Memory NoSQL Service
Garantia Data is an emerging startup that is among the 11 finalists of this week’s GigaOM Structure LaunchPad competition, and it brings a rather interesting new cloud service to the table. Garantia’s product targets Memcached and Redis, two of the most popular open-source memory caching systems out there. They’re used by Facebook, Twitter and many other ...
FalconStor Appoints Louis Petrucelly as CFO
Backup and recovery solutions provider Falconstor said this week that Louis Petrucelly is now the company’s chief financial officer. He has been the acting CFO since May and now the promotion has been made more permanent. Petrucelly joined FalconStor in 2007 as director of financial reporting. He quickly made it up the corporate ladder and ...
Infosys Debuts Cloud Infrastructure Management Service
This week Indian outsourcing giant Infosys is launching a new platform for managing cloud services in enterprise environments. The Infosys Cloud Ecosystem Hub is touted as a “self-service catalog” that lets users mix and match offerings from different vendors. There’s a ‘smart brokerage’ feature that can be used to assess 20 parameters that Infosys provides, including ...
VMware Buys Log Insight to Analyze the Cloud
VMware is upping its cloud play via a series of acquisitions that the company hopes will help it expand beyond its core virtualization business. The latest in this string of purchases is Log Insight. The solution is offered by a company called Pattern Insight, and offers admins the capability to get a deeper look into ...
What Did Dell Have to Do with Curiosity the Mars Rover?
Dell apparently had a hand in sending Curiosity to Mars, or at least in getting it to the red planet’s surface in one piece. According to a fresh release that the company must have just been itching to publish this week, NASA used Dell’s PowerEdge servers to power the two High Performance Computing clusters that ...
Accenture Boosts Pharma Business with Octagon Buy
IT consultancy Accenture has expanded its presence in the healthcare market with the acquisition of Octagon Research Solutions, a company that deals with clinical data management and offers regulatory services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Octagon employs a staff of 380, and has a fairly impressive portfolio under its belt. It’s the fifth ...
Jaspersoft, DataStax Set Out to Make Cassandra Easier
Jaspersoft is a maker of BI tools that enables business users interact with their organization’s big data. This technology will be integrated with DataStax Enterprise, a platform that’s built on top of the Cassandra Hadoop database: it lets users search, analyze and manage data in real time, but up until now you pretty much needed ...
Tintri Targets SIs, Services with New Partner Program
Tintri offers a VM-enabled NAS solution that is partially based on flash, specifically optimized to run in virtualized environments. Today the startup launched the Tintri Lightning Partner Program, which offers more incentives to the channel in hope of luring in more partners. The program is designed for resellers and distributors, but SIs and services providers ...
MapR Partners with Nimbula to Bring Hadoop to the Private Cloud
MapR is joining forces with software startup Nimbula to get its Hadoop distribution running in the private cloud, and there are a few solid very reasons why it decided to go with this particular firm. Nimbula was founded by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, the two technologists who led the development team that created Amazon EC2, ...
