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EMC and VCE’s Take on HANA at SAPphire 2012
Henrik Wagner, the head of SAP relations at EMC, shared some of his perspective on business software, and value, together with VCE’s D.J. Long during an interview with Dave Vellante on the Cube (see full video below). Speaking at SAP SAPphire 2012, Wagner started by noting how he considers this particular conference as a unique ...
SAP Saved the Best for Last – HANA SP4’s New Capabilities
It’s Day 3 of SAP SAPphire, and today the BI software maker finally released the most significant batch of HANA-related news scheduled from the event: HANA service pack 4. The idea is that SAP customers can upgrade their deployment by purchasing service packs rather than new licenses, and this latest one packs more than enough ...
Tablet Business Apps Roundup: Lookout Tops the List
This week Lookout for Android snatched the top spot in our list of iPad and Android tablet apps for professionals, one of the leading mobile security tools out there. The sheer amount of traction this particular app has received supported it through 7 different releases, and version 7.10 doesn’t disappoint either. Android Lookout Security & ...
Millennial Beats Earnings Estimates Right off the Bat
Mobile ad network operator Millennial Media, currently the second largest company in this space behind none other than Google, held its first ever earnings call this week. They went public in late March, selling over 10 million shares for $13 a pop. The company reported a net loss of $4 million or 32 shares – more ...
VMware Unveils vFabric Suite 5.1 With New Add Ons
Virtualization solutions maker VMware announced the latest version of the vFabric Suite, a platform that’s meant to support Spring Java applications running on cloud infrastructure powered by the company’s power. vFabric 5.1 features several new capabilities, including the addition of support for open source tools such as Postgres, Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server and the ...
Hewlett-Packard Unveiles New Servers, Gets More Cloud Attention
Taking a small break from all the buzz surrounding HP Cloud Services, Hewlett-Packard reaffirmed the plus side of being a large vendor with strong relations. Just 24 hours after Intel’s new server chipsets were announced, HP unveiled a new lineup of ProLiant servers for the SMB market that ship with freshly baked Xeon under the ...
More from SAPphire 2012: HANA, New Services and Cloud Strategy
It’s Day 2 of SAPphire NOW 2012, and the steady flow of updates streaming out of the event still persists. HANA hasn’t disappointed yet, and is in the center of the three day conference as expected, while the ecosystem expands with each announcement and SAP is getting ready to make yet another major push into ...
YouSendIt Appoints Brad Garlinghouse as CEO to Bolster Cloud Growth
It can’t be said that YouSendIt hasn’t been remarkably successful in the collaboration space. The popular service has more than 30 million users as of the first quarter of this year, and it counts 98 percent of the Fortune 500 companies as clients. Today we’ve learned just how extremely keen YouSendIt is to maintain this ...
Xeround Integrates MySQL DBaaS with Two Developer Platforms
Traditional database vendor-turned cloud DB service provider Xeround said that it’s making its database-as-a- service for MySQL apps available on two additional platforms. It will be offered in the form of an add-on for AppHarbor .NET, as well as AppFog’s PHP environment. This opens up the solution to two rather broad demographics of developers. The ...
MuleSoft Upgrades Integration Platform with Connector Kit, Apps and More
Integration specialist MuleSoft launched the latest version of its platform today, and with it introduced a drastically expanded feature set and ecosystem. Mule iON SaaS Edition is designed to save cloud providers and SIs much more code than before, the company said. Mule iON covers a lot of ground in an effort to achieve the ...