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FalconStor Pays $5.8M to Cover Up Old Mess
Backup and recovery solutions maker FalconStor is doing fine right now. It recently snagged an award for its popular Virtual Tape Library (VTL) offering, and according to an older update from earlier this month it had some big wins in the education sector this quarter. The only real catch is that this all labeled as ...
Google’s “Cloudy” Future: It’s All about Content Streaming
News from the 3-day Google I/O conference is already pouring out of the event. The main angle is content, and the new platforms from which Android users can access it. Google Play, the search giant’s own version of App Store, now features the option to actually buy titles and not just rent them. As far ...
Chrome OS Gets Some Love from Pano Logic
Pano Logic sells organizations specialized hardware and software that offer a full desktop experience on stripped-down end points, safer and more affordable than an actual PC. The company carved itself a niche in the VDI market, and today it took another step forward with the debut of Pano System for Cloud and the accompanying Pano Zero Device. Pano ...
Piston Cloud and GridCentric Unveil OpenStack-powered VDI
Piston Cloud, a startup that offers a commercial distribution of the OpenStack cloud OS, announced an OEM agreement with GridCentric to integrate its VMS technology with Piston Enterprise. Gridcentric’s Virtual Memory Streaming software is a virtualization solution developed for VDI that, among other things, offers a memory reduction of up to 50 percent. That means the ...
Infineta Joins NetApp Ecosystem
Storage vendor NetApp is steadily getting more and more involved with big data. Earlier this month the company debuted an integrated box that is built to run Hadoop, and shortly thereafter announced a significant partnership with Infineta. Infineta makes software that reduces latency in big data environments, in which even the most minute networking delays ...
Cisco and Citrix: Two Peas in a Pod
Networking behemoth Cisco and virtualization software maker Citrix announced a new partner program this week that offers a number of incentives to resellers in the VDI space. More specifically, only partners who deliver Cisco Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) with Citrix XenDesktop are eligible to join the Cisco and Citrix Partner Accelerator. The two firms promise ...
Sumo Logic Goes Freemium with Data Analysis
Log management software startup Sumo Logic went out of stealth just a few months ago, and it has been keeping very busy ever since. The company dove right into a freemium model this week with the debut of Sumo Logic Free, a new edition of its analytical solution that is deployed on Amazon Web Services. ...
Accenture Closes Three Deals in One Week
IT consultancy Accenture had a pretty good run last week, according to a Trefis report that says the company closed three high-profile deals in just seven days. Accenture’s first agreement was with Nordea, the largest banker in the Nordic region. The latter hired the firm to develop and maintain applications that will help improve its ...
Red Hat Follows up JBoss Launches with Three More
Open-source software kingpin Red Hat announced updates to a few of its products, just a few days after a similar-sized roll out. This morning the company debuted the latest release of its Enterprise Business Rules Management System. BRMS 5.3 introduces new business process management and CEP capabilities via the newest version of jBPM, the core ...
Hovernote Tops this Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup
Hovernote for Android tablets is the app that made it to the title because of the fact that, thanks to some practical thinking on behalf of the developer, the note-taking tool seems to “get” productivity. The application runs in the background and the use can access it by just tapping a hotkey or button, rather ...
