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Oracle Considers Purchase of HP’s Enterprise Business
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has his eyes on long time rival Hewlett-Packard, or at least its enterprise business. According to an unnamed insider there’s a chance Oracle may acquire HP now that the latter’s stock is falling, saying that this move is “inevitable” if HP’s shares will continue their decline. This news comes in light of an ...
Gluster Adds Hadoop Support to Storage Offering
Gluster, a maker of open-source storage software, announced GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 today. The major addition this update brings is the introduction of Hadoop support, a move that likely made Gluster’s platform suddenly much more interesting for a lot of new clients. “With this new feature, GlusterFS is the first open source, POSIX-compliant file and ...
VMware Resorting to Facebook Referrals for New Blood
EMC virtulization subsidiary VMware is taking a new approach to recruiting new workers via social media. Instead of using LinkedIn alone, the business-oriented social network that recently had a very successful IPO, the company is going after a relatively untapped, bigger pool of professionals: Facebook and YouTube. Here’s why: “For VMware’s Will Staney, the company’s talent ...
Weekly App Round Up: MobileIron to Splashtop
Both the iPad and Android Honeycomb are gaining traction among business users as the trend towards smarter tablets becomes more and more powerful in the consumer space, and developers are quick to follow with new applications. We’ve rounded up five tablet business apps this week too, looking into what’s going on in the mobile enterprise: ...
Weekly Cloud Roundup: From Microsoft Azure to keeping the Cloud-in-a-Box
This week had its fair share of updates from the cloud-based industry, spanning a number of industries that drew interest from stratups and large solution providers alike. The first one in our round-up is Microsoft. The software giant is looking to grow the audience for its Azure Platform-as-a-Service offering and their decided tactic is to ...
HP Transformation Driven by Big Data
Hewlett-Packard had a pretty unusual earnings call this week, considering that the company used it as an opportunity to reveal some major internal changes. After reporting fairly flat results, mainly due to declining demand in the PC space and a number of other factors, HP essentially stated it’s on a path to become something more similar ...
Microsoft Blames Outage on “Networking Interruption”
Microsoft released some info about the three-hour outage that affected North American Office 365 and SkyDrive customers two days ago, blocking off access to their email and calendar services. The software giant put the blame on “a networking interruption” in one of its datacenters, though there’s still no word about the Dynamics CRM outage that ...
Twitter Can Help you Beat the Market According to Derwent Capital
Use of Big Data analytics tools is picking up fast among enterprises and markets such as Twitter–which sells its users’ tweets in a number of packages–are becoming ever-more valuable resources. Some however managed to extend the insight they receive from individuals’ 140-charcater messages far beyond marketing. Hedge fund firm Derwent Capital is leaning on Twitter ...
VMware Trying to Realize Value with Cloud Ecosystem
Virtualization giant VMware has been expanding into new fields recently, notably into the platform-as-a-service market with its open-source Cloud Foundry offering. Cloud Foundry is based in part of technology the company bought as a part of a 2009 deal to acquire SpringSource for $420 million, but the consensus is that the company still has a ...
Barnes & Noble Survives Digital Transition with $204M Investment
Bookseller Barnes & Noble announced it has received a strategic investment of $204 million from Liberty Media. Liberty acquired about 12 million shares of the company at a price of $17 per share, which adds up to a 16.6 percent chunk of the largest bookstore chain in the world. Based on a release, Liberty Media’s original ...
