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Dell’s Fresh Focus on Services, Not PCs, Is Paying Off
Dell is making $8 billion in services every year, according to its founder and CEO. In an interview this week Michael Dell credited company’s one percent share of the global enterprise services market, as well as $1.5 billion in annual software sales, to a series of successful acquisitions in recent years. Dell mentions Force10, Compellent ...
HP’s New Server Crunches Data Like No Other
Hewlett-Packard just unveiled the HP ProLiant SL4500 Gen8 server, a new box architected for big data. The SL4500 delivers 240 terabytes in a single 4.3u chassis, which amounts to 2.16 petabytes of storage in a standard 42u rack that holds nine servers. The machine is available in a wide variety of configurations so that customers ...
Cisco Soothes the Sting of Nicira-VMware Play with Cloupia Buy for $125M
Cisco just bought out Cloupia for $125 million, a startup that specializes in making software that automates hybrid IT infrastructure. This includes environments where physical and virtual servers run side by side, as well as private clouds that make use of public services such as AWS. ISI analyst Brian Marshall says that Cloupia employs 50 ...
SOASTA Expands Services Portfolio to Mobile
SOASTA, a consultancy that specializes in helping enterprises test their cloud applications, is expanding its horizons. The company announced the launch of its Mobile Services Division (MSD) today, a new business group headed by Mahesh Gidwani. The executive has a strong Silicon Valley background, including plenty of experience in the mobile testing and big data ...
Brocade’s Acquisition of Vyatta an Aggressive Push into SDN
Last month Brocade’s Ken Cheng, vice president of service provider products, hopped into theCube to discuss the advantages of software-defined networking. SDN is the the concept of creating an abstraction layer that separates software from hardware and drives down administrative costs as a result. The most notable tidbit from the interview was his point about ...
Sumo Logic Adds Boss-Friendly Dashboards to Analytics Engine
Big data firm Sumo Logic just launched a new feature that enables clients to view information about their IT environment in real-time. Sumo Logic develops software that helps enterprises make sense of the massive amounts of data generated by their users, applications, networks and other components of the data center. All these logs are fed ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Mobile, the Azure Store and IBM’s New Machine
This past week features major updates from VMware, Microsoft, IBM and Newvem, a cloud optimization firm that decided to put a mobile twist on Amazon Web Services. The vendor unveiled an iOS app that syncs with AWS and tracks all the resources and spenditure associated with the user’s account. Cloud Smart Meter runs in conjunction ...
Hadoop for BI Gets Prettier by the Day: Platfora + HTML5
Hadoop startup Platfora just announced it closed a $20 million Series B round of funding led by Battery Ventures. Existing backers Andreessen Horowitz and Sutter Hill Venture chipped in as well. Platfora develops software that takes raw data from Hadoop and processes it using its distributed in-memory engine, which can be deployed across hundreds of ...
A Worthy Alliance for Two of the Hottest Startups in Big Data
Hadoop packs a powerful value prop for enterprises that have a lot of data on their hands, and deep enough pockets to afford the investment. But while the technology itself may be accessible, the talent needed to operate it is much sparser, although the industry is quickly filling in the gaps. MapR just announced a ...
EMC Extends Syncplicity to iOS with SlideShark
Storage vendor EMC is adding support for Brainshark’s mobile presentation app to Syncplicity, its cloud-based enterprise file-sharing and collaboration solution. The integration is targeting the sales and marketing teams that need their PowerPoint files to be no more than a few taps away while they’re out on the field. Syncplicity and SlideShark supplement each other ...