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How to Appeal to Your Developers in the Mobile Era? Team with Appcelerator Platform
Outsourced R&D provider GlobalLogic and Appcelerator, the developer of the Titanium mobile dev platform, announced a curious new alliance. The two companies will be integrating their engineering muscle, GlobalLogic’s 6,000 developers and Appcelerator’s massive partner and user ecosystems, to extend Titanium and as a result achieve a good bit of mutual benefit. GlobalLogic has implemented ...
HotLink Upgrade Extends Cross-Hypervisor vCenter
HotLink offers a solution called SuperVISOR for VMware, a rather appropriate title considering what it does. It extends vCenter in a way that transforms it into a centralized platform that can be used to manage multi-hypervisor environments, with support for not only VMware software but also Hyper-V, XenServer and other alternatives. Today the company unveiled ...
QLogic Unveils 10GbE OEM with Fujitsu
Networking gear maker QLogic announced a reseller agreement with Fujitsu today that puts its 8200 Series 10GbE converged networking adapters into the latter’s ETERNUS storage systems. QLogic thinks very highly of its embedded target controller, and here some of the reasons why. The company says the fact its 3GCNA products are all one-chip-based means they’re ...
More Growth Expected for EMC Earnings Report
Storage vendor EMC, ranked the top vendor on several research firms’ charters for the industry, will report its earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 this month. The results are due in about ten days. Historically speaking, EMC is more than likely to continue its growth streak, a goal that the company successfully realized last ...
Top iPad, Android Tablet Apps for Business: Desktop Connect Leads the Pack
This week’s featured app is Desktop Connect. It doesn’t exactly compensate for any lack of this type of solutions on the App Store, but it does introduce a very broad range of powerful functions that differentiate it from most others, if only by quality. iPad Desktop Connect Desktop Connect promises to deliver, and it does. ...
This Week in Big Data: IBM & Hadoop, and the Public Sector
This past week in big data has seen some astronomical developments, for the most part from the Square Kilometer Array telescope. The project is kicking into high gear now that the the various international acidic institutes involved in the project are starting to turn to the IT industry for the solutions they need. DDN was ...
This Week in the Cloud: Open-Source, VMware and SaaS
This past week in the cloud featured a number of developments, a big portion of which tie in with the open-source movement. Free and vendor-agnostic alternatives to proprietary offerings are really picking up momentum, especially the few products that are spearheading this trend’s growth. One of them is Cloud Foundry, the open PaaS created by ...
SAS Picks Accenture for Analytics Implementation in EU Contract
IT consultation Accenture has been chosen by the SAS Institute to help deploy their Risk Management for Insurance initiative in a client environment. The company in question is Folksam, a Swedish insurance provider that contracted SAS for the job late last year. The goal of this initiative is to streamline the way Folksam’s non-life and life insurance ...
DataDirect Networks to Provide the Storage Behind New Telescope
Earlier this week we covered IBM’s partnership with the European ASTRON to develop analytics software that will filter the data collected by the Square Kilometer Array. The initiative aims to make the job of the scientists who will be working with the telescope considerably easier, knowing that the instrument will generate roughly one Exabyte of ...
Tata Consultancy’s Bad Rep Bad for Business
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the India-based Tata Group, has gotten itself in a bit trouble now that two former employees are launching a class-action suit against the company. Their motion was finally approved by a U.S court this week. The background is that these individuals have opened the initial case against TCS ...