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Cisco Rubs it in for Juniper, Says Market is OK
Cisco has commented on Juniper’s decline in the company’s fourth fiscal quarter, as well as its competitor’s claim that it was a result of lowered demand in the U.S router market. Talking at CES, Marthin De Beer, the head of Cisco’s video and collaboration unit, said he is convinced that there isn’t a market-wide change ...
Open-Source Java is Stronger than Ever [Infographic]
Cloud app monitoring provider New Relic released a short and succinct infographic (see below) that visualizes the success of open-source Java solutions, and compares it with the market share of proprietary alternatives. It seems as if these five open source startups are not the only ones that will see additional growth this year. The data ...
Clearspring Finds New Sales Head as Executive Shuffle Continues
Clearspring, the operator of the AddThis social sharing and data analytics platform, hired a new executive to boost revenue generation. Lee Hoffman is now the senior vice president of sales for the company, according to an announcement that went public on Tuesday. Hoffman has 15 years of experience managing advertising and other marketing initiatives for various firms, ...
Teradici and TI Demo VDI Solution in the Social Enterprise Era
Desktop virtualization solutions maker Teradici and chipmaker Texas Instruments will be showcasing their technology in a joint booth this week at CES 2012 in Las Vegas. In the TI Wireless booth, North Hall, MR N116, the two companies will demonstrate how the Teradici PCoIP protocol runs VMware View on the OMAP4460 mobile chip by Texas ...
IBM Will Make More Chips at $5BN Plant
IBM released a set of three white papers covering different silicon alternatives, and even an already developed prototype not too long ago. Big Blue hopes to get an edge during a time when silicon will no longer be able to accommodate Moore’s law, but for now, it still retains some confidence in the 14th element. ...
Cisco Hasn’t Given up on Video Yet, Launches New Products at CES
Earlier this month networking giant Cisco pulled the plug on umi, the company’s somewhat overpriced line of video teleconferencing set-tops. It was designed for the use of both consumer and business users, which may have contributed to its downfall, and Cisco is not repeating the same mistake again. As a part of a much broader ...
Broadcom and Qualcomm Commit to HomePlug
Broadcom and Atheros, Qualcomm’s networking division, published a joint release announcing the two companies’ support for the HomePlug electronics power line standard family. This willingness encompasses the newly sanctioned HomePlug AV2 as well, which has been given the credit for being the foundation of the IEEE 1905.1 draft standard. Dan Marotta, the head of the ...
ScaleXtreme Updates DB Automation Tool
ScaleXtreme added some UI enhancements to both versions of its cloud-based deployment management platform: the free ScaleXtreme Xpress and the full ScaleXtreme Expert subscription service. The automation solution was revealed in August last year, a launch that we covered at the time. “The first major change is a radically streamlined path to create new servers ...
Dell’s Cash Heavy and Ready to Spend: Storage, Networking Could be Key
Michael Dell said during a keynote in Bangalore, India that his company will be searching for potential acquisition targets among small to medium sized companies that may be able to strengthen its portfolio. The electronics giant is making use of “strong cash flows” to invest in the longer-run, despite the Thailand floodings that led to ...
DataStax Reviews Company, Cassandra Through 2011
DataStax, a commercial distributor of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database is reflecting on the past year. The company reached several milestones in the past year, as did Cassandra, and there are high hopes surrounding both as we enter 2012. DataStax passed the 100 clients landmark last year, in addition to raising a second round of ...
