Maria Deutscher
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Umbel Hires More Industry Talent After $3.6M Funding Round
An up-and-coming big data startup called Umbel appointed a top-notch expert on media relations to serve as its new Director of Agency Solutions, a title that covers a variety of duties. Umbel works with publishers that want to tap into the social media audiences that are exposed to their content. The creative, small team uses ...
Cisco Stock Down After So-So Quarter, Cautious Guidance
Networking gear maker Cisco reported net earnings of $2.2 billion or 40 cents per share in its third quarter ended April 28–a rise of just under 20 percent over the $1.8 billion, or 33 cents per share the company reported for the same period last year. Revenue rose 6.6 percent from last year to $11.6 billion ...
Oracle VDI Update Means Less Vendor Lock-In?
Database behemoth Oracle upgraded three applications in its desktop virtualization portfolio with the addition of new features spread across a number of different areas, from storage and security to video playback quality. Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.4 now offers a bit less vendor lock-in with support for not only Sun ZFS appliances but also storage ...
Bottlenose’s Massive Platform Update: Beta Codes!
Bottlenose is a very interesting social startup that, refreshingly, does add a bit of originally to a very worn-out idea. The web app revolves around a ‘radar’ layout that Bottlenose uses to visualize data from users’ social media accounts in an inclusive and more readable format. That is, one that the company promises is open ...
View 5.1 Gets a Boost with ILIO, VMware to Improve Cloud Suite
The latest version of View came out just last week, and already one partner has updated its own offering to support v5.1, and provided some additional supplemental features. Atlantis Computing makes software that takes disk-based storage out of the virtual desktop equation. Its ILIO Diskless VDI tool works alongside the VMware View Storage Accelerator to offload I/O from ...
Citrix Synergy 2012 Data Center & Cloud Highlights
Today Citrix ynergy 2012 is kicking off, a gathering that will focus on the virtualization, mobile and other areas where host Citrix has a major foothold. This year’s event is expected to attract about 4,000 IT professionals. Right of the bat a few of the companies that reserved a booth at Synergy announced their product ...
AppSense Acquires RAPsphere to Secure Mobile Enterprise
AppSense is looking to expand its foothold in the mobile enterprise, and in order to establish such a position it needs to pull several things together. One element is security, which the VDI solutions provider addressed this week for the acquisition of RAPsphere. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and is expected to officially ...
Zettaset and Hyve Collaborate on Red Hat-Powered Hadoop
Big data firm Zettaset and Hyve Solutions, a company that makes custom servers with a focus on data driven-workloads, announced they’ve started working on a new Hadoop appliance. The collaboration between the two firms will produce a solution comprised of Hyve-developed boxes running the Zettaset Orchestrator management platform on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2. Hyve will be ...
QLogic and Extreme Networks Offer Fiber Channel/FCoE Interoperability
QLogic has partnered up with Extreme Networks to integrate their portfolios on the premise of allowing Ethernet environments to connect to both fibre channel and fibre channel over Ethernet networks. The initiative brings Extreme Networks’ Open Fabric Architecture 10GbE and 40GbE switches with QLogic’s FC and FCoE storage. The BlackDiamond and Summit series switches will now work ...
Latest from InterOp: Zynga’s in-house AWS
One of the newest highlights of the InterOp gathering held this week at Las Vegas is the Zynga keynote, in which the company detailed its own cloud use case, Wikibon’s David Cahill attended and reported his observations from the showroom floor. The social game developer has a lot of users to support – one in ...
