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Wipro Buys Promax to Push Big Data Services
System integrator Wipro just acquired a company called Promax Applications, according to an announcement that went out this week. Promax is an Australian services provider founded in 1989 that started off as The Professional Assignments Group, until current CEO Don Nicol bought a significant stake and renamed the company. The firm’s portfolio focuses mainly on managing trade promotion ...
HP Pitches Double Performance Increase with VMware-Virtualized 3PAR
Hardware manufacturer Hewlett-Packard is making something called the HP Get Virtual Guarantee Program available to global customers, promising to double VM density in environments that meet all the specified criteria. To be eligible for the program a company needs to be upgrading to a 3PAR storage system with the HP 3PAR Optimization Suite, and must ...
IBM Announces PureSystem Kit/PaaS, Mobile Portfolio
Following the footsteps of rival HP, IBM unveiled the PureSystem line of so-called ‘expert integrated systems’ last month. These are hardware appliances on which users can install software-based ‘patterns of expertise’ to automate certain aspects, say a task that an understaffed IT department would not be able to handle otherwise. These machine-translated best practices are meant ...
Panorama9 Launches IT Dashboard, New Feature in the US
Panorama9 is a Danish startup that focuses on general-purpose IT solutions in the cloud. And that has been working out pretty well for the company so far. Their platform is targeting small to midsized enterprises’ IT administrative tasks, covering a pretty long list ranging from inventory management and distribution, to the more creative obligation of ...
Revision3-Discovery Deal Not Likely to Go Down
Revision3 is a veteran independent broadcasting site that shares some common ground with Hulu, with the exception that the startup produces and streams its own content. Web users are showing their appreciation with over 100 million views every month, and they’re also clicking more ads than ever – revenue increased by 53 percent in 2011, ...
Correction: Violin Memory Raises $90 Million at $850m Valuation, IPO Due Soon
{Update: According to SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier, the reported numbers by AllThingsD is a bit low. SiliconANGLE has learned from sources close to the company that Violin’s latest round was actually $90 million at $850 million valuation. Violin is filling a big unmet need in flash memory for new converged infrastructure devices and networks. It’s ...
Signpost Raises $3.5M, Hires Sales VP
Signpost offers an advertising platform to small and medium businesses that resembles Google AdWords in a lot of areas, with the expectation of a fancier-looking dashboard that offers different functionality. That includes metrics with deeper location integration, or at least a bit more visualized than you would expect. There’s also some built-in CMS features such ...
ActiveState Adds Control, Debugging with Stackato 1.2
ActiveState, a software development solutions maker, launched the latest version of its so-called private, development-centric PaaS. The multi-stack, platform-agnostic moto persists, only with a few extra touches that aim to make Stackato a bit better than what it used to be. Version 1.2 features several new additions. One of the major updates is support for ...
Angry Birds, Instagram Reach 50 Million Downloads
Rovio is certainly making the most out of the now out of proportions Angry Bird franchise, from the introduction of micro-transactions to the game’s reincarnation just over a month ago. The top ranking mobile app debuted in its new wrapping as Angry Birds Space late March, and this week the Finnish developer is celebrating a ...
Skype 4.0: New Version, New IP Hack
iOS users got some good news after the weekend cleared with the launch of Skype 4.0, which features a few notable tweaks. First and foremost is the ability to change the location of that tiny square displaying what the other person on the other end of the video call is seeing, which is more of ...
