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Vidyo Raises $11.5M, Pushes Teleconference Trend
HD video conferencing solutions provider Vidyo had raised $11.5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing, though the company itself hasn’t confirmed the funding yet. Based on the “Related Persons” listed in the form (Form D), Star Ventures, Sevin Rosen Funds, Rho Ventures and Menlo Ventures participated in the funding round. “Added to a ...
Microsoft and HP Unveils Data Appliances from their $250M Deal
After a 3-year, $250 million cloud partnership, Microsoft and HP unveiled some the fruits of their joint labor. The first product is the HP Business Decision Appliance which reportedly takes an hour to install and is to run business intelligence applications. The appliance offers advanced analytics features for Microsoft’s SQL and SharePoint. “The appliance, they ...
Amazon Launches AWS Elastic Beanstalk PaaS
Amazon announced it has launched AWS Elastic Beanstalk beta, Amazon Web Services’ first platform-as-a-service. Elastic Beanstalk is free for AWS customers and can be used with the AWS Free Usage Tier. Beanstalk automatically handles application deployment including capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring, but it gives full control over relevant AWS and ...
Emerging Apps Address Facebook’s Latest Privacy Settings Stunt
In a follow-up to our previous coverage of Facebook’s current privacy issues, including George Bronk’s hack past users’ secret questions by using publicly posted information, Facebook-related apps are once more in the center of attention. The social-network announced last Friday a minor change of settings that grants third party apps to access users’ addresses and ...
New England VMware Event Showcases Real World DataCore Studies
At the New England VMware User Group meeting which will be held Gillette Stadium, 1 Patriot Place, Foxborough, MA 02035 in January 20, 2011 will showcase real world VMware and DataCore customer case studies and its virtualization software’s benefits. We cover a lot of product launches, service updates and earnings reports for VMware and other ...
Juniper Networks Launches Continuing Education Program for Partners
Today Juniper Networks announced a new training and education program built for company partners, which focuses on areas including cloud networking, security, switching, routing and mobility etc. The Continuing Education Program is a part of the Juniper Learning Academy curriculum and gives partners the ability to select the most ideal courses for their employees. “In ...
Millennial Media Releases an SDK for Windows Phone 7 Developers
Millennial Media today announced it has officially released its Windows Phone 7 SDK. This enables marketers utilizing the network to tap into the Windows Phone 7 market, and develop their campaigns around the device, but more specifically, this new SDK provides more integration with mobile applications. “Although we have been providing monetization services for current ...
EMC Breaks More Records with Symmetrix and Other New Products
As we mentioned earlier today, EMC launched a record-breaking 41 new products at their NYC event. In addition, they’ve also introduced some record breaking, or at least impressive, new and updated products. The first one to be highlighted in this article is the latest version of Symmetrix Enginuity which doubles system performance without any hardware ...
Rackspace Celebrates 6 Months of OpenStack, Making the Cloud Accessible
Rackspace and NASA’s joint open-source cloud platform dubbed OpenStack is celebrating today its 6-month anniversary. “In just six short months, the OpenStack community has grown to forty companies, working together to fight the emergence of proprietary cloud stacks and create a standard way to deploy applications and connect clouds. As OpenStack continues its success and ...
VMware Acquires NeoAccel, Extends Partner Portfolio with Bitrix
VMware announced it has acquired NeoAccel, a California-based provider of computer network security products. The acquisition comes as a part of VMware’s strategy to expand and strengthen its offerings portfolio, and NeoAccel’s solutions – particularly the SSL VPN-Plus product line – support this agenda. “NeoAccel’s solutions complement this strategy and offer several interesting integration opportunities. ...
