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VMware Teams with Piston to Create BOSH for OpenStack
Earlier this month VMware debuted BOSH, an open-source tool (or tool-chain, in the words of the developer) for deploying Cloud Foundry. It also announced plans to make the solution platform agnostic so that the user base won’t be limited to the Cloud Foundry alone, and today we got the first confirmation that the virtualization software ...
Google Drive’s Biggest Virtue May Be its Ecosystem
Google Drive became one of last week’s most talked out tech updates, and a couple of interesting discussions about the launch sprung up as a result. Our very own Kit Dotson raised the issue of piracy and how certain features of the new cloud service could be exploited, potentially leading to a lot of legal ...
Fusion-io Boosts Webair’s Cloud
Flash storage provider Fusion-io recently released another one of its case studies, this time outlining how ioMemory helped data center operator Webair address the growing demands of its customers. Webair previously used traditional disk-based storage systems throughout its facilities in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Amsterdam. “One of the key factors in our decision ...
Big Data Helps Find the Cause for MS
The University of Buffalo leverages technology from Revolution R and IBM Netezza to drastically accelerate their research of the potential factors that may be contributing to Multiple Sclerosis, according to a case study the former published last week. Revolution R develops a commercial version of the highly mathematical programming language after which the company was ...
This Week in Big Data: Cloudera and VMware Enter the Frey
This past week in big data has been a pretty exciting one, with some product launches and a milestone acquisition by VMware. First up is Cloudera, which is not exactly new to the big data business. It did, however, jump on the announcement bandwagon earlier this week with the roll out of CDH4, its fourth ...
This Week in Cloud: Remote Storage Regains Interest
The concept of offering users online hosting that they can use to hold their personal files and data is nothing new. In fact, it has been almost completely milked out in the past couple of years. This week freshened things up a bit. We’ve seen some spirit being put back into this area by a ...
Citrix Boasts Q1 Sales Growth, NetScaler Success
Virtual desktop solutions maker Citrix reported impressive gains for the first quarter of 2012, crediting a great deal of it to the success the company’s NetScaler VDI delivery platform has seen in the same period. Citrix revealed net profit of 39 cents per share on revenue of $589.5 million, a bit more than the $562.4 analysts expected ...
Triple Growth for Software Maker Veeam
The privately held Veeam makes software for virtualized environments, including backup and data recovery, as well as monitoring apps and other solutions. And it has been doing something right so far, according to some new data about its performance in the first quarter of fiscal 2012. Veeam says that it has added another 5,000 customers ...
Wiggio Gains 1M Users for Student-Driven Cloud Collaboration
Wiggio is a Boston-based cloud collaboration startup that’s working its way up the same niche market that helped spawn at least one other incredibly fast-growing network – students. And Wiggio is surprisingly similar to Facebook in that its hosting service puts a huge emphasis on the social element and collaboration. The Boston Herald reported that ...
Juniper Beats Earnings Forecast but Remains Cautious About Q2
Networking gear maker Juniper Networks managed to outdo what the market had in mind for the first quarter of 2012, beating analysts’ estimates with a fair margin. Profit came in at 16 cents per share excluding certain items on sales of $1.03 billion, compared with the $998 million and 7 cents a share forecast we ...
