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SAP Reports Strong Q3, Debuts Latest BI Software
Software maker SAP held its earnings call for the third quarter of 2011, and reported some pretty positive results. Net profit rose to $1.77 billion from $708.9 million a year earlier. Ten percent of that comes from SAP’s relatively new ventures into mobile, the cloud and analytics – including HANA, the in-memory big data appliance ...
QLogic Goes Mainstream with NIC Launch
Networking solutions vendor QLogic had a major product update today, announcing a new vendor-agnostic NIC partitioning (NPAR) feature. It’s rolling out on the QLogic 3200 Series intelligent Ethernet adapters and 8200 Series converged network adapters, which are powered by VMflex. These are available to resellers immediately. VMflex is an I/O virtualization solution that promises to reduce ...
NSA Gets Involved in Banks’ Cybersecurity
The National Security Agency and the FBI have begun cooperating with financial institutions to prevent positional cyberattacks of the sort we’ve been covering lately, including the recent theft of classified nuclear plant information from Japanese defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. There’s still a heavy fog around the details of such talks between banks and government officials, ...
OpenLogic Rolls Out Open PaaS to the Public
OpenLogic finally launched CloudSwing, a so-called open platform-as-a-service the company first announced back in August. CloudSwing seeks to differentiate itself from other solutions by being completely vendor-agnostic and providing a lot of customization options: the offering leverages lot open-source software, enabling customers to completely customize stacks and add third party code. CloudSwing includes stack support ...
Citrix Buzz: New NetScaler amongst Fresh Offerings
Virtualization solutions maker Citrix had a few major announcements this week, and here are some of the highlights we haven’t covered already. The company launched a bunch of new offerings that represent a significant extension to its existing portfolio, and among them is the NetScaler CloudConnectors delivery fabric. The first solution that’s included in the suite ...
Akamai Refreshes Top Level Execs with New CIO, Head of R&D
Web acceleration services provider Akamai announced a couple of significant hires this week: the company appointed Kumud Kalia as its chief information officer, and Rick McConnell as Executive Vice President of Products and Development. Both of them will report directly to company CEO and president Paul Sagan. Kalia joins Akamai from Direct Energy, where he ...
Citrix Integrates with AppSense after Partner Acquisition
AppSense announced today that it has integrated its User Virtualization Platform with the Citrix Cortex Cloud Control Panel, now known as the CloudPortal Services Manager. The goal is to deliver customers a better interface to manage their VDI infrastructure, with an expanded set of options that include hardware and customer provisioning, identity management, and other ...
Fusion-io Hires New Product Development Head
Storage startup Fusion-io apparently 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 ...
China Takes the Heat for Latest Japanese Government, Defense Cyberattacks
Recently an unusually large number of hacking incidents were unrecovered by seemingly bigger and bigger targets: companies, defense contractors, and now the Japanese government. This time however the attack has been traced back to a server in China, the country that is supposedly involved in a few of the other high-profile attacks we’ve been hearing ...
AppSense’s Latest Partner Program Builds VDI Ecosystem
VDI firm AppSense announced its latest partner program, dubbed the AppSense Affinity Partner Program, which is designed for partners within the company’s ecosystem that are working on user virtualization initiatives powered by AppSense technology. David Roussain, vice president of strategic alliances and systems integrators at AppSense, said the driver behind this new program is the ...
