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AppFog’s PaaS Bills You for Ram, Not Space
AppFog is taking a shot at the biggest cloud vendors with its new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) pricing model that charges users based on the RAM they need instead of capacity. The company has also announced a new platform for Web, enterprise and mobile developers. The solution gives users with free accounts 2 GB of RAM. Paid plans ...
SoftLayer Making a Name for itself in the Cloud
SoftLayer is an emerging player in the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space. The company may not be as large or well-known as providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft’s Azure, SoftLayer claims it does a few things better than the big boys. The company has released a few case studies that detail why its platform is ...
Big Data Skill Gap Could Create Offshore Opportunities
Statically foreign workers might prove to be one answer to the big data skill gap that is growing increasingly noticeable in the U.S today. The McKinsey Global Institute said that there’s a shortage of 200,000 data scientists in the current job market. That’s a lot of PhDs, and companies will need at least another 1.5 ...
Services Fuel EMC’s Q2 2012 Earnings
EMC services fueled EMC’s income in the second quarter of 2012. Virtualization, cloud computing and Big Data are the key trends that EMC cites for continued growth in its storage product revenue. While the company’s products appear to be gaining modest share in the market, the real story of EMC’s continued success is its Global Services ...
FalconStor to Report Q2 Earnings this Month
FalconStor, a maker of backup solutions and data protection software, will hold its earnings call for the second quarter of 2012, ended June 30, after market closing on July 31. Here’s a brief overview that the company provided. FalconStor didn’t release a preview of its earnings like EMC did so for now there’s no word ...
Juniper Earnings Beats Analysts but Q3 is Gloomy
Networking equipment provider Juniper Networks disclosed its financial performance in the second quarter of this fiscal year, which was ahead of Wall Street’s consensus estimate. The firm reported 19 cents a share, ahead of the15 to 17 cents guidance the company itself issued and considerably higher than analysts’ consensus forecast of 8 cents a share. ...
Pure Storage Launches Partner Program, Seeks Enterprise Growth
All-flash array maker Pure Storage unveiled its P3 partner program today, offering the channel a “simple and flexible” way for partners to resell its hardware. Pure touts a $4 billion flash storage market, plus the perks available to vendors that decide to sign up for the program. P3 Channel Program Benefits The P3 program was ...
Jaspersoft Joins Google’s Cloud Connector Platform
BI software maker Jaspersoft made a new open source connector available for Google BigQuery customers that are interested in running its dashboarding and reporting tools on the Google Cloud Platform. Jaspersoft announced at the same time that it’s now a member of the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program. “The Google Cloud Platform Partner Program enables ...
Wipro Profit Up 18 Percent, Outlook Disappoints
Wipro, the third largest outsourcing firm in India, reported results for the first quarter this week. Net income rose by 18 percent to $284 million on revenue of 15.8 billion rupees, less than the consensus estimate of 15.99 billion rupees. But revenue evened things out a bit at $1.92 billion24 percent more than what the company ...
Broadcom Beats Expectations for the Third Consecutive Quarter
Broadcom is up 5 percent. now that it managed to outdo what the market expected of it for the third consecutive quarter. The chip maker reported a net income of $435 million, or $0.73 per share, compared to last year’s income of $0.72 per share. Analysts expected Broadcom to report 67 cents a share. Revenue ...
