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Splunk’s Big Data IPO “Imminent,” Insiders Say
Splunk, a maker of machine data aggregation and analysis software for the enterprise, is going public. Citing anonymous “people similar with the matter, Bloomberg reported that Splunk hired Morgan Stanley to lead an upcoming public offering. JPMorgan Chase & Co., Credit Suisse Group AG and Bank of America Corp will also be working on the ...
This Week in Cloud: Storage, PaaS and Smart TVs
This week has been particularly interesting thanks to a handful of very notable updates from all across the industry. The first news flash came from Dell’s direction, which launched its first dedupe offering powered by Compellent’s Fluid Data technology. Dell introduced two new storage offerings this week, including a backup appliance and version 6 of the ...
Fusion-io Hires New Product Development Head
Storage startup Fusion-io hired IT veteran Woody Hutsell as its new director of product management. Hutsell comes to Fusion-io from data storage firm Vion, where he served as an application acceleration practice director and an accounting executive since October 2010. Prior to that Hutsell worked at Texas Memory Systems for about a decade in positions ...
VMware Co-founder Joins Google’s Board
Diane Greene, who helped co-founding virtualization giant VMware in 1998 and served as the company’s CEO for the next decade, has joined Google’s board of directors. Greene has been selected to fill the 10th and last open seat on the search giant’s board, which has been empty ever since Arthur Levinson left in 2009. There ...
Compellent Co-Founder Phil Soran is Leaving Dell
CEO Phil Soran, co-founder and CEO of storage company Compellent, said in a keynote during the London-based Dell Storage Forum that he will be stepping down from his position on March 31. Soran founded Compellent in his basement with Larry Aszmann and John Guider. “The announcement was made at Dell’s Storage Forum in London today. ...
The Hacker Food Chain: From Script Kiddies to Black Ops
Cyber threats are rapidly turning into a bigger and bigger issue as individuals and entities with malicious intents seek to exploit the even faster growing dependency of modern society on tech. Such incidents also make for very engaging headlines. Wikibon has been looking into this area, and on a deeper level has also been looking ...
Dell Debuts New Backup, Storage Offerings
Hardware maker Dell announced two new storage products: a disk-based deduplication appliance that’s the first of its kind offered by the company, and version 6.0 of Compellent Storage Center. The DR4000 backup appliance used data compression tech from the now Dell-owned Ocarina to achieve a data reduction ratio of up to 15:1. The product is ...
ActiveState’s Stackato Now Supports HP Cloud Services
Stackato, the open-source private PaaS based on VMware’s Cloud Foundry, can now be deployed on HP Cloud Services. The latter is a cloud-powered platform designed for the enterprise, and is currently in private beta. Stackato itself left that stage and rolled out into public beta in November. ActiveState’s agenda with Stackato is customization: to be ...
Hewlett-Packard vs Oracle, European Edition
HP and Oracle have extended their legal clash to Europe, now that authorities are investigating accusations by the former claiming that the software giant is using discriminatory practices on licensing and support for Intel-based offerings. “The competition authority said it opened a probe to examine Hewlett-Packard’s July complaint that Oracle’s refusal to support Intel’s Itanium ...
EMC Preps for Q4 Call, Fiscal Performance for 2011
Storage giant EMC nnounced that will be holding its fourth quarter earnings call on January 24, where it will also compose a report covering its fiscal performance throughout 2011. And it’s probably safe to say is that the latter figures won’t disappoint investors: EMC has hit the mark for the last three quarters. The company’s ...
