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ActiveState Rolls Out New Features to Stackato
ActiveState updated its flagship offering dubbed Stackato, adding new management and monitoring capabilities to the private platform-as-a-service that freshly enters into public beta. ActiveState, the company behind the Python and Perl programming languages, has built its offering on top of VMware’s open-source Cloud Foundry. This latest release introduces the upgraded Stackato Admin Dashboard, which now ...
Millennial Media Expands Mobile Operations to Asia
Independent mobile ad network Millennial Media is expanding to the Asian mobile market, which has a very rapidly growing userbase that is expected to see a lot of growth throughout the next few years. This trend has led several companies across multiple industries to establish a foothold in the region. The man who is placed ...
Samsung VP Latest to Jump Ship
There have been a few notable executive-level changes recently, the latest being Samsung’s vice president of consumer and enterprise services, Gavin Kim. He’s switching over to Microsoft, where he now serves as the general manager of its Windows Phone unit according to an AllThingsD report. “I will be responsible to help set the future direction ...
VCE and SAP Strengthen Ties with Latest Title
VCE, a startup that offers a cloud-in-a-box offering based on components from backers EMC, VMware and Cisco, has become an SAP technology partner. This means that Vblock is now certified to run the business software maker’s applications in customer deployments, and that the two companies have a stronger relationship in several ways. That extends mainly ...
Cloudera Teams-up with NetApp for Integrated Hadoop Offering
Hadoop service provider Cloudera and storage vendor NetApp debuted a new offering named the NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop, which will be available starting December this year. It’s a pre-configured modular Hadoop cluster that includes Cloudera’s Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Enterprise, a subscription-based support and management service. The solution puts an emphasis ...
Ethernet Fabric Networking Gears Up for Big Data
Wikibon analyst Stu Miniman recently published a post digging into the Ethernet switches market and discussing the main drivers behind them. There have been a few fresh developments in this space, which make the analysis of this evolving segment even more notable. Miniman highlighted that virtualization and the addition of new applications to Ethernet environments have created ...
Notability Tops Week’s Best iPad, Android Business Tablet Apps
We’ve compiled a list of the five iPad and Honeycomb apps that caught our eyes this week, including one new player in the tablet scene. This time Notability is the highlight of our roundup, thanks to the iPad note-taking app’s broad functionality and efficient design that aims to cater to the power-user that will make ...
This Week in the Cloud: Datacenters, Mobile Take Center Stage
This week featured a few significant updates from the cloud industry, perhaps most notably the unveiling of Hewlett-Packard’s Moonshot Project. The new breed of servers offers what HP refers to as hyperscale: a high-density configuration that packs hundreds or thousands of power-conscious AMD microprocessors. In essence the electronics giant is looking to offer more computational ...
Catching Up with Big Data: Manifesto Part 2
In part two of the Wikibon big data manifesto, Jeff Kelly compares traditional analytics and the tools associated with it with big data, and the need for new tools to effectively process the growing quantity of unstructured data generated within the enterprise. Kelly looked into the mainstream way of ingesting data first. Companies would generate ...
Fusion-io Reports Stellar Growth for 1Q 2012
Flash-based storage vendor Fusion-io held its second ever earnings call yesterday, reporting some impressive year-over-year growth. The company reported GAAP revenue of $74.4 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2012, a 175 percent increase compared to 27.0 million just a year earlier. Profit was also up at $7.2 million, or $0.07 per diluted ...
