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Fusion-io Shares Surge as Barron’s Sees Positive Outlook
Steve Wozniak’s startup Fusion-io has stirred quite a fuss in the IT world with its flash-based storage acceleration technology, and the same can be said of the stock market. The company had a very successful IPO earlier this year, and it has just been selected as the stock of the year by Barron’s. Fusion topped ...
Juniper, HTC Eye Asian Markets Despite Shrinking Profits
Kevin Johnson, the chief executive of networking solutions maker Juniper Networks, revealed that the firm is considering some acquisitions in Asia this year to beef up its mobile and cloud portfolio. “Certainly if there are interesting opportunities that have strategic alignment with what we are doing and make economic sense, we’re very open to [mergers and ...
Nutanix Closes $25 Million Round from Khosla Ventures
Nutanix closed off a $25 million funding round led by investment firm Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital. The datacenter virtualization startup is one of the first to be funded by Khosla Ventures IV, the VC’s new $1.05 billion fund specifically focused on investing in early stage IT ...
Jaspersoft and IBM Integrate Big Data Offerings around Hadoop
BI software maker Jaspersoft and IBM plan on offering a joint analytics solution to customers that are looking to extract value from their data. IBM will integrate its InfoSphere Big Insights software with Jaspersoft’s business intelligence suite as a part of an Application Specific Licensing Agreement, which will enable the latter to license the Big ...
SAP Adds New Exec to Boost Big Data, Cloud Strategy
Business software maker SAP has embarked on several ventures to strengthen its cloud and big data portfolio, and the company is pushing through with this approach. Alongside a couple of new developments in recent weeks, SAP has appointed Michael Naimoli as the new head of its Life Sciences Industry Business Unit. Naimoli is anything but new to ...
EMC Sees Record Earnings, Gives Funds to Charity
Storage solutions vendor EMC reported positive results for the third quarter of 2011. The company showed 18 percent year-over-year revenue growth reaching $4.98 billion, 54 percent ($2.7 billion) of which came from U.S. sales. Its virtualization arm VMware saw 32 percent growth-year-over year, closely followed by EMC’s mid-tier storage products at 28 percent. The company’s ...
Oracle Targets Salesforce with Latest Buy: RightNow for $1.5 Billion
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire RightNow, a customer service software maker that’s used by over 2,000 clients, according to the company. Its flagship offering is called RightNow CX, a cloud-based product designed to enhance online customer experience. This will also put Oracle in a more competitive position against Salesforce. Oracle is shelling out ...
SAP Announces HANA-Powered Analytics Cloud at TechEd 2011
Business software maker SAP revealed SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) OnDemand this week at TechEd 2011 held in Bangalore India. The cloud analytics offering is powered by HANA, SAP’s real-time data analytics platform and one of the key initiatives it has embarked on recently. “With SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand on SAP HANA, we are bringing ...
Weekly Cloud Roundup: VMware and Personal Cloud
There were several news highlights from this week coming out of the cloud space, and VMware and the personal cloud were the center of attention. This is partially because VMware Europe was held in Copenhagen from October 18-20. The first update comes from VMware parent company EMC, which announced EMC’s Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning 3.0. The ...
VMware Grows Partner Ecosystem as CEO Talks about Company Vision
VMware Europe is being held at Copenhagen this week, and the regular fair bit of updates and announcements is coming out of the conference. One interesting highlight is the company’s new Rapid Desktop Program, which allows OEMs to build pre-configured and pre-packed VDI appliances to simplify deployments and reduce overheads. Partners interested in signing up ...
