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VMware’s Latest Acquisition Beefs up Amazon Rivalry
Mozy, the online data backup provider, was already a part of the EMC family, but has been transferred to the VMware camp, signaling their intent to become a prominent cloud IT service provider. The move comes very soon after another EMC acquisition, RSA. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but keeping ...
Recent Upgrades to FCoE Make for Hot Topics at SNW Conference
The SNW conference kicks off today, bringing another seasonal discussion on cloud infrastructure, architecture and several other aspects of data in our current era. With keynote speakers including Steve Wozniak, and several segments dedicated to storage management, backup, archiving, energy efficiency and security, SNW Spring 2011 is destined to be a hotbed for related discussions ...
Big Data Breach Leaves Chase Bank, Best Buy Customers at Risk
A data breach at third-party marketing firm Epsilon has exposed the email addresses and names of customers from several large retailers and financial institutions, including Chase Bank, Best Buy, TiVo, Disney, Kroger and more. It’s a hack that won’t affect, say, financial data, like bank account numbers, but gives rise to security concerns anyway. A ...
mBlast CEO Talks on Scaling Big Data for Marketers
mBlast is a marketing tool that’s dawned in a new era of online media, where social voices rule and influencers are no longer easily identified as journalists and celebrities. Addressing the changing needs of today’s marketers, mBlast launched a new tool called mpact about 11 weeks ago, with fancy algorithms that convert web-scouring into readable ...
Citrusleaf Launches Fresh Take on NoSQL and Mobile, Flush with $2M in Funds
Citrusleaf is launching a real-time NoSQL database platform, delivering a different take on database and distributed technology. With $2 million in Series A funding from Alsop Louie Partners, Kalpathi Investments and Draper Associates, the startup is tackling a unique sector of the NoSQL environment, with big goals around simplifying its management and scalability. Founded in ...
Cisco Flips the Big Switch, Optimizes Cloud Management
Cisco’s launched an overhauled version of its data center portfolio, which spans their switches, servers and storage networking protocols, as well as their data center management software. It’s all part of Cisco’s fabric re-vamp for data centers, particularly in those that seek an a la carte format for networks, computing and management. That covers a ...
Yodlee Makes Good Use of Tax Payers’ Data, Launches New App
The finance industry has been crunching data for as long as it’s been around, and this is one of the reasons it takes to technology as readily as it does. When it comes to cloud services in particular, there’s always the matter of security. But the application of that data is a next step in ...
Citrix Takes on Unstructured Data with DataStream, MySQL’s New Traffic Cop
Citrix is launching a new product for the cloud, addressing the exponential growth the industry has witnessed in recent years. Called DataStream, the technology behind this virtual “traffic cop” is based on Citrix’s popular NetScaler service delivery networking product line. Already established in infrastructure data management, this latest move by Citrix has aims to take ...
Cisco to Buy newScale, Scaling its Own Cloud Portfolio
Cisco’s made public its plans for another acquisition today, hoping to add privately-held newScale to its family. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. newScale is a software provider delivering self-service portals for IT organizations, to select and deploy cloud services for their business. They deal with the enterprise market, offering cloud scalability ...
AHHHA! I Wish I Woulda Thought of That. I’d Be a Millionaire by Now.
If only I’d thought of a blanket with arms. I’d be a millionaire by now, right? No, not really. I actually did think of a blanket with arms, long before Snuggie was a worldwide brand. And I’d seen plenty of other armed-blankets for sale, in catalogs you find in airplane seat pockets, selling their cashmere ...
