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VMware’s Big Plans Lead to Major Hypervisor Launch
On July 12, virtualization giant VMware is expected to announce a couple of major hypervisor launches. More about that later, but until then, though, the company is putting its focus on Cloud Foundry among other things. The PaaS offering is VMware’s first serious open-source initiative, built by former Google engineers Derek Collison and Mark Lucovsky. ...
Hewlett-Packard Grows in the Area that Counts: Storage
Hewlett-Packard has launched the enhanced HP P2000 G3 Modular Smart Array storage array, extending its offerings in a key area for its future product roll out. It specifically targets SMBs, and offers support for VMware vStorageAPIs for Array Integration (VAAI) and HP Insight Control Storage Module Manager for VMware vCenter Server, among other things. “SMBs ...
Sybase Strides Forward as SAP Expands Services Strategy
SAP has promised its investors it will greatly increase its revenues in the near future, and the German software maker is working hard to accomplish that goal. For that, it needs the right people to lead this effort, and Sybase – one of the companies it has recently acquired — is the latest highlight in ...
Fusion-io Powers Big Data Research, Sees Promising Financial Gains
Storage acceleration tech maker Fusion-io announced at the International Supercomputing Conference that its ioMemory technology is being utilized to accomplish performance improvements in MySQL database queries for research carried out by the Protein Data Bank (PDB.) PDB is a huge repository of three-dimensional structures of large molecules and nucleic acids, powered by research conducted at ...
Oracle Expands Cloud Portfolio, Loses Steam in Google, HP Lawsuits
Oracle has seen a lot of developments recently, from every aspect there is to the IT industry. The most recent one is its latest acquisition – the buyout of web-based cloud engagement company FatWire for an undisclosed sum. The deal will finalize sometime in mid-2011. “Its [FatWire’s] products “help organizations drive customer engagement and loyalty ...
Juniper Networks’ Financial Performance Comes with Optimism, New Customers
Robyn Denholm, executive vice president and CFO for Juniper Networks, thinks the dollar has a strong future ahead, despite of a “relatively weak” near term outlook. The euro isn’t going anywhere, either. A bold statement from Juniper, considering the company’s current financial position. “The decline in the dollar against most of the world’s major and emerging ...
ClickFox Adds Advisory Board, Pushes Innovations in Big Data BI
Big data analytics is drawing a lot of attention, both from the direction of businesses looking to monetize their data, and solutions providers working around developing increasingly sophisticated and comprehensive offerings. ClickFox, a maker of customer experience analytics software, is one of those solutions providers, offering its behavioral analysis engine to analyze “all customer interactions.” ...
Is Dell’s Security and Storage Strategy Complete?
Dell SecureWorks, the company’s security segment, has teamed-up with on-demand vulnerability management solutions provider Qualys to deliver VMS services to global customers. Dell will resell Qualys’s QualysGuard product line-up, which includes web application scanning, PCI compliance and policy compliance services among other things. “QualysGuard’s features and Qualys’ commitment to customer security and global reach align nicely ...
SAP Expanding Globally via HANA, Investments in India
German business software maker SAP is determined to significantly boost revenues, and one of the main aspects to its strategy is analytics. Today the company passed its latest milestone, making the SAP HANA business analytics appliance available to customers globally. “General availability is a major milestone for SAP HANA, but this is just the beginning,” ...
Brightcove the Latest to Join Gluster’s Customer Base
Open-source scale-out storage solutions vendor Gluster has landed a big customer – Brightcove. The cloud content distribution provider will use Gluster’s platform to power its Video Cloud offering used by media companies, businesses, and organizations in over 50 different countries. Video Cloud is leveraged for video streaming, online adverting and so on. “Gluster is delivering ...
