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This Week in the Cloud: Every Angle on Storage
In addition to some good (and bad) financial results, there were a lot of cloud updates that snagged the headlines in the past seven days. Cloud storage has been a particularly busy industry this week. Microsoft’s extending efforts on its cloud solutions, particularly for those needing to process big data. Project Daytona is Microsoft’s answer ...
CX.com Raises $5M for Cloud Storage, Acquires Competitor
CX.com, a cloud storage and syncing service similar to Dropbox, Box.com and many others currently on the market, has just made a major step forward. The company received $5 million in capital from Tomorrow Ventures and Hanna Capital, raising its total funding to $10 million. CX.com comes with a freemium model and a number of ...
How Juniper Networks Does Innovation
Juniper Networks made it to the number 42 spot on Forbes’ Most Innovative Companies list, and in interview chief executive Kevin Johnson explained what he credits this success to. According to him it boils down to three main aspects, starting with investment in R&D. Johnson highlighted that it is important for his company to not ...
eBay Revenue is Up, Profit’s Down
eBay reported its results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011 today. The company has seen a strong revenue increase at $2.8 billion, or 25 percent more than in the same period last year. eBay’s marketplace unit, which includes eBay.com and a number of other sites, has seen revenues rise to $1.66 billion from ...
Google Uses Data to Get Ahead of Malware, Intercepts Browser Attacks
Google has rolled out a new notification for its search engine that will detect whether not a user’s connection is being intercepted. In case a user’s computer is infected with a type of malware that hijacks their search results by routing them to Google’s servers via a proxy, the search engine will display a large ...
Amazon Cuts Deal with CBS and Follows the Lead of Netflix
Amazon is directly competing with Netflix and other content streaming services with Amazon Prime. Today the company took a significant leap forward and signed a non-exclusive agreement with CBS to offer 2,000 episodes of the broadcasting giant’s library to customers of its video streaming service. This means users will be able to access a total ...
VMware Reports Strong Q2 Earnings, Looks to Further Monetize Licenses
VMware had its earnings call today, rounding up the second quarter of fiscal year 2011. The company reported some impressive figures indicating a fair amount of growth- U.S revenues grew 35 percent year-over-year to $450 million, while international revenues grew 38 percent to $471 million. Wall Street estimates averaged only $873 billion. Earnings were 37 ...
Huawei Symantec Launches First All-Flash Array
Huawei Symantec (HS), a joint venture between Chinese storage and networking equipment manufacturer Huawei and software giant Symantec, announced the latest addition to its product portfolio: the OceanSpace Dorado S2100. The all-flash array is probably one of the first ever developed by a SAN and NAS storage array vendor, and aims to offer lower prices ...
Apple Sees Record Earnings, Lion Out Tomorrow
Apple held its earnings call today, and reported stellar results for its third quarter. The company has seen an 82 percent increase in revenue compared to last year’s $15.7 billion: it generated $28.57 billion, a record breaking number that easily surpassed analysts’ average expectation of $24.92 billion. Apple’s profit was up 124 percent this quarter ...
Google News Taps Gamification to Enhance Social Side
Gamification, the implementation of a certain game-like mechanisms to improve business, is a much wider trend than one would think. It has proven to be effective for many companies including startups that are based their offering wholly on this concept, and Google is the latest one that is trying to take advantage of it. The ...
