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The Birth of the Cloud Computing Era: HP Expands with vCloud Suite 5.1
HP’s Converged Cloud has expanded with VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and was unveiled at VMworld 2012 on Monday. The software intertwines VMware’s virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into one SKU, which simplifies the adoption of cloud technology. “Today’s IT requires organizations to take a holistic approach to planning, building and operating their infrastructure, especially as ...
Actifio’s PAS 20T Makes Copy Data Software Affordable For All
Actifio launched its new PAS (Protection and Availability Storage) 20T, which was designed to be affordable and easy to use, even for single person IT shops. PAS 20T is a single application that allows you to manage data applications including: backup, snapshot, disaster recovery, business continuity and test and development. You’ll be able to navigate ...
Broadcom Reaches Out to Chinese and Other Booming Smartphone Markets
Broadcom is looking to expand its market in China, where the cost of smartphone manufacturing is low. The chip maker is looking to work with ZTE Corp. that manufactures handsets for a low price to gain market share in China along with up and coming markets from all over the world. “Initially we were producing ...
Strong Earnings Prompt Salesforce to Increase Sales Outlook
Salesforce is living up to its name with its second quarter. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) giant’s results were better than anticipated, mostly due to all of the enterprise deals the company has been managing to close. The strong results prompted Salesforce to increase its sales outlook for the third quarter fiscal year; it wasn’t quite enough ...
Pose for the Picture: Veeam Introduces Explorer SAN Snapshots
Are you part of the lucky group of hard working people that have the leisure to work from home? You get to sit at your computer and work with Dr. Phil on the TV and a few snacks sprawled around your desk. Your boss won’t be able to see the Twinkies or the empty coke ...
What Day Can You Expect the Grim Reaper to Show Up? Big Data Knows
It appears we can all have a chance to put out the Welcome mats and prepare for the Grim Reaper’s visit because we will know exactly when he will come knocking on our doors. Archimeds Model, a San Francisco-based healthcare company has found a way to use Big Data in order to predict how long ...
Nutanix Sets Out to Make the Affordable Data Center of Tomorrow
Nutanix has raised $33 million in Series C funding from investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, as well as new investors Battery Ventures and Goldman Sachs. This round of investments brought the company up to $71 million in finances, so now the company can expand in sales, marketing, support and double up on R&D. ...
Apache Software Foundation Starts Drilling in Hadoop
The Apache Software Foundation has launched Drill, the latest project, which serves as a mechanism to enable faster queries of data sets for Hadoop users. According to Tomer Shiran, director of product management for Hadoop and founding member of the Drill project, the new software has been established as an Apache Incubator Project, so continued ...
Consumer Apps Prove to be a Big VC Investment
Consumer apps has proved to be one of the largest venture capital investments for the first half of this year, worth $1.009 billion in value, with $3.9 billion invested in mobile companies worldwide. Non-software, like devices and infrastructure, still remains one of the most valuable investments in mobile when taking a look at the top ...
Building a Data-Driven Service for Startups
Max Marmer, a 21-year-old college dropout from Stanford has created an online service called Startup Compass, based in Palo Alto, that allows newly ripe companies to compare themselves to other companies in other areas. The data enables them to check on what customers bought as well as whether or not their company has the potential to ...