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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 ...
Can Facebook Separate Signal from the Noise with New Comment Rankings?
Facebook is testing two new features this week, in hopes of making it a bit easier to navigate the sea of comments usually found on popular posts. The first addition is the ability to reply to specific comments – a change that improves the way users interact in discussions, or at least in theory. This ...
Jaspersoft 5 Features More Data Integration, In-Memory Processing
Jaspersoft has entered the data visualization market with the newest release of its flagship reporting platform, which includes capabilities similar to those other vendors in space have been offering for a while. Namely, Jaspersoft 5 comes with a built-in “metadata view” of different data sources that users can easily put together in a browser. “The Jaspersoft 5 ...
SolidFire Reveals New Arrays for White Hot Flash Market
SolidFire just rolled out two of its newest pure flash storage arrays for general availability today, and it isn’t shy about it. The company says that nearly two dozen cloud service providers are currently evaluating its technology, and several have already implemented it in their data centers. “SolidFire is ushering in a new era in ...