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Pirate Bay Founders Found Guilty in Sweden Amidst Web Copyright Drama
Even before the battle over SOPA and PIPA has reached its climax, the media industry is going after the people who are making its copyrighted property available for free online. The particularly case involving The Pirate Bay has come to end this week, and it set a rather interesting precedence for the rest of the ...
ScaleXtreme Launches New Partner Program for CSPs
ScaleXtreme, a provider of cloud management and automation tools for the enterprise, announced the latest boost to its ecosystem. The company hopes to increase the number of paid licenses it’s selling via its partners, which is why it launched the Cloud Service Provider Program. Providers that are developing cloud-based or on-premise offerings for either vCloud, Citrix CloudStack ...
Mzinga Ups the Data Ante with Teradata Team Up
According to a recently published case study, Mzinga is one of the latest Teradata customers to make use of Aster technology on a large scale. Teradata acquired Aster Data last year. Mzinga offers a solution called OmniSocial, which is meant to enable organizations to setup community sites where customers, partners and other members of its ...
EMC’s New Greenplum HD Integrates with Isilon
Storage giant EMC is extracting the most out two previous investments as it sets course to become a big data powerhouse. Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly wrote up the latest news in a blog post: Isilon scale-out network attached storage has been integrated with an Apache-compatible Hadoop distro called Greenplum HD. This is not the same product as ...
AppSense Goes Global as Product Market Expands
User virtualization solutions maker AppSense released some figures revealing the past 6 months in the company’s history, as well as info about how it plans to make those figures even more impressive by seeking new customers overseas. The company said that it has seen record growth in the first half of its 2012 fiscal year, ...
Permabit Finds another Partner in Stonefly
Permabit has entered into an OEM agreement with StoneFly, a maker of high-performance NAS, SAN and storage systems that’s a part of the Dynamic Network Factory. StoneFly will be integrating Permabit’s Albireo deduplication software into its portfolio, which is good news for the OEM-embedded solution and its steadily growing ecosystem. The company managed to position Albireo ...
ARM Beats Wall Street Expectations Thanks to Mobile Demand
U.K.-based chipmaker ARM reported results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011 today. The firm has seen a tremendous amount of growth, which is expected to extend to the third quarter of this year. ARM credits its success to exploding demand in the mobile space. The company reported a revenue increase of 28 percent ...
IBM’s Mobile Strategy, Acquisitions Tackle BYOD Security
IBM’s Bob Sutor, the head of the WebSphere Foundation within the company’s software unit, blogged his take on two of the company’s most recent product announcements, both impacting IBM’s mobile goals for the coming months. Last year Big Blue announced an organization-wide adoption of a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy enabling a full half of its 400,000 ...
How Analytics is Done in the Cloud Industry: Totango, Zendesk Case Study
Today a startup called Totango launched its analytics service into general availability. The offering, which starts at $600/month, was developed to cater to SaaS companies that want to drive user-engagement, and consequently sales, up by better addressing their users’ demands. So far the company says they’ve served over one million SaaS providers and end users. ...
Clio Raises $6M for Legal Cloud
British Colombia-based startup Clio announced that it has received $6 million in a series B funding round, led by Acton Capital Partners. Existing backers, including Point Nine Capital and others, decided increase their investment in the company and also participated in the round. Clio offers up a cloud-based set of tools specifically designed for the ...