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This Week in Cloud: PaaS Expansion on the Rise
As the title highlights, a few rather significant updates poured in this past week from the as-a-service, industry in addition to other areas. For starters, the Salesforce.com-owned Heroku introduced a new database-as-a-service for the open PostGres DB. The news is that for $200 a month this is available as a standalone service, building on the ...
SAP Plans Next Investments, Faces Another Lawsuit
SAP is very ambitious to reach its target revenue goal by 2015, which is why it has been expanding and making quite a lot of investments lately. The company is now increasing its presence in the European IT consultancy sector with plans to hire 300 to 400 workers in Romania by 2014, according to SAP ...
VMware Reverses Open Mac Virtualization Policy
Users of Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard got all worked about the latest release of VMware’s Fusion desktop virtualization app, at least for a short time. Version 4.1 provided what seemed to be a loophole to Apple’s strict EULA by passing on the responsibility of running unauthorized software (client versions of the OS ...
EMC Balances Out M&A and R&D
Storage vendor EMC has a very rounded-out strategy that combines a lot of acquisitions, which represent perhaps the bulk of the company’s investments, and in house development. Joe Tucci confirmed this during a keynote last month where he provided some official numbers about EMC’s spenditure: $10.4 billion went to R&D between 2003 and 2012, while ...
Intel Invests in Android as Mobile Strategy Emerges
Insyde, a Taiwan-based company that makes firmware based on Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Android distributions based on the original open-source code Google produces, received some fresh capital this week. Intel Capital made an investment of NT$300 million in the company, the equivalent of about $10 million, marking the latest result of the long ...
Data Recovery and Backup Industry Sees Growing Adoption, New Products
The big data explosion many companies are experiencing today is leading to a number of changes in the traditional datacenter, and data recovery and backup is an area that is no exception. Bigger datasets mean more bandwidth, and the UK-based Bridgeworks has been capitalizing this space. The data storage connectivity firm released a case study ...
ActiveState Offers Free Tool for Developers
ActiveState’s Stackato Micro Cloud comes out of beta today, and will remain a free offering to developers. Stackato is the company’s Cloud Foundry-based open platform-as-a-service, which differentiates itself by being vendor agnostic with support for public and private cloud platforms, not to mention a sizable number of programming languages. Micro Cloud lets developers deploy their ...
Security Concerns around Encryption are not Aimed at Big Brother Alone
The worries concerning the need for encryption to keep the Big Brother from spying over the private citizen have been cropping up from time to time rather frequently, but now a twist to the story usual story appeared. A new a report entitled “The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics” hopes to increase ...
VMware’s PaaS Ranks High, Mac Users Catch a Break (for Now)
A couple of interesting updates are coming out of EMC’s virtualization subsidiary VMware. The first highlight is a fresh Evan Data survey which concluded that developers find Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open-source platform-as-a-service offering, to be the best PaaS of its kind overall. Cloud Foundry ranked first among 14 different cloud platform providers, thanks to a ...
HP CEO has a Lot of Work Ahead as Earnings Miss Expectations
Former eBay head Meg Whiteman replaced Leo Apotheker as chief executive officer of HP a couple months ago, and she has a lot of ground to cover now that shareholders are beginning to lose faith in the electronics giant. Hewlett-Packard reported earnings of $1.13 per share on $32.06 billion in revenue for the quarter ended ...
