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Google Loses in the Latest Development from the Oracle Java Case
In Oracle’s legal department, the name of the game is copyright infringement. The software giant sued SAP – which, at least for the time being, did not get it the multi-billion dollar sum it has hoped to win – and the Google case isn’t going anywhere either. This particular case against Google involves a claim that ...
Cisco’s Craig Huitema Has High Expectations of the Cloud being a Networking Driver
Craig Huitema, director of data center solutions at networking giant Cisco, discussed his take on the cloud and how it’s driving the evolution of the networking market, both in the datacenter and the average household, during an interview. The outline of his vision is that the consumer space is pushing the enterprise forward towards this ...
CommVault Stays Stag as HP, Others Build Storage Strategy
Enterprise storage software maker CommVault won’t follow the same track its competitors did, and will continue to run solo for the time being, according to a statement by Bob Hammer, the chief executive, chairman and president of the company. “Whatever happens on the M&A side, our mission is clear — create shareholder value on our ...
Xeround Going Freemium with Complimentary Dev Version
MySQL cloud database maker Xeround is going freemium, sort of: the company introduced Xeround FREE, a very limited yet considerably more accessible edition of its solution that enables prospective customers to test-run the service. It’s available for Amazon EC2 and as a Heroku add-on at first. Cloud companies such as Amazon have been offering a ...
Nicira’s Fresh Take on Network-as-a-Service Not Quite Ready to Rival Cisco
Nicira is a startup that freshly existed in stealth, but has already managed to gain an impressive customer base and quite a bit of funding thanks to its new angle on virtualization. Stanford‘s Martin Casado and Nick McKeown, together with Scott Shenker from the University of California, took virtualization to the next level by co-founding ...
Clustrix Gains Traction in NewSQL, Offers New Product
Clustrix is one many NoSQL startups gaining traction in today’s market. This ecosystem has seen a lot of innovation from smaller players (or at least ones overshadowed by the size of structured data behemoth Oracle), and Clustrix is among them. The company’s distributed relational database system differentiates itself by offering the capacity to easily scale, and ...
Apkudo Launches New Android Analytics, MetroPCS First On Board
Apkudo, a company that offers developers solutions to amend the fragmentation of the Android ecosystem and run their apps on multiple devices without the need to rewrite, announced a new offering today. Apkudo Device Analytics is designed forAndroid OEMs and carriers that also seek to solve these kinds of compliance issues, and is comprised of ...
EMC’s Project Lightning Provokes Fusion-io Reaction
There have been a number of different speculations about Project Lightning ever since EMC’s most senior executives hinted towards an upcoming offering at last year’s EMC World. Wikibon’s Dave Vellante dug into the history of the project, its background and its maker’s vision (among other things) in a blog post that went out on February ...
Symantec Launches New Versions of Backup Solutions
Symantec has released the latest versions of two of its enterprises backup and recovery offerings, which the company said took two years of 1,600 developers’ time to upgrade. Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5 will ship with several major improvements, first and foremost separate editions of the two referred to as V-Ray. The new branding ...
Microsoft on Mobile: Upcoming Launch, Shaky Competitor Relations
Software giant Microsoft is one of the many companies heavily invested the PC industry that have decided to apply the phrase “if you can’t beat them, join them” to their approach with the mobile market. The latest development is news that it will be bring the Dynamics CRM platform to mobile sometime in the second quarter ...
