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This Week in the Cloud: PaaS, VMware and Box
The past week has seen a number of announcements from all across the cloud, and several segments and companies in particular got the spotlight. Platform-as-a-Service is a growing market, and as such, competition and venture capital are plentiful. Open-source PaaS provider OpenLogic launched CloudSwing, a platform that puts a big emphasis on avoiding vendor lock-in ...
The London Riots: Both Sides of the Social Media, Big Data Coin
The London riots that have been going on recently are taking a serious toll from residents, including shop owners who have suffered substantial damages and even deprived of their livelihoods. One example is the 89-year-old Aaron Biber, whose barber shop that he has been running for over 40 years was hit by a wave of ...
NoSQL Rising Star: New Tools, Wider Adoption
NoSQL has been a developing trend for quite some time now, both in the enterprise and in the general developer community. It has several advantages MySQL currently lacks, including that it’s non-relational, distributed, open, and has the capacity to scale out. This is what makes it ideal for managing unstructured data, which is the main ...
Box Announces Tablet-Optimized Android and PlayBook App
Cloud storage service Box launched two new apps today: one is a tablet-optimized Android app that will replace the company’s old one and scale the view based on a user’s device, and the second is a PlayBook app–the first BlackBerry to have access to the service. Box also rolled out a new HTML5 mobile site. ...
OpenLogic Gets PaaS Savvy with CloudSwing
Open-source software developer OpenLogic announced a brand new offering today, called CloudSwing. The open-source PaaS takes a different approach than other products, and lets users customize and change the standard application stacks for the supported languages, as well as add new components – whether open-source or proprietary. “CloudSwing offers developers pre-defined Platform as a Service ...
VMware Integrates RabbitMQ Messaging System with Cloud Foundry
VMware has integrated RabbitMQ with Cloud Foundry, its open-source beta PaaS offering that competes with the Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and other offerings. RabbitMQ is an also open messaging system that was originally developed by the UK-based Rabbit Technologies, a company VMware acquired last year. “RabbitMQ is now a first class citizen of Cloud ...
Cisco Q3: A “Little Bit” Better than Last Quarter
Cisco held its earnings call yesterday and it seems that, at least on the short-run, its restructuring efforts are starting to pay off. The networking giant managed to beat analysts’ average expectation of 38 percent per share with profit of $2.2 billion from its fourth quarter, or 40 cents a share, excluding $772 million spent ...
There is No Big Data without the Companies Leveraging It
O’Reilly’s Alistair Croll wrote a piece discussing something data scientists everywhere seem to agree with: large companies are not doing enough with their stockpile of data–not by a long shot. The reason, according to him, is that established organizations have a much harder time “breaking their own business models” than smaller and more agile startups ...
Citrix Acquires RingCube to Personalize Virtual Desktops
Today Citrix announced the acquisition of RingCube for an undisclosed amount, a company that offers a virtual desktop customization and management platform. In a release Citrix explained how RightCube eliminates what it called the “great VDI tradeoff,” the choice between virtual desktop customization and efficiency may enterprises have to face. RingCube works by creating a ...
SAP Looking to Expand in the Chinese Market
Business software maker SAP is drastically expanding by launching new initiatives and heading overseas, with China being one of the most important destinations on the list. The company has been seeing growth in the Asia Pacific region for quite some now, and reported a 14 percent year-per-year increase in revenues from this market in the second ...
