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Taking a Peek Under the Hood of LiveJournal
Social network and blogging platform LiveJournal has been around a long before Facebook came to be. In the early years of its existence the company had to implement an invite code system that curbed its user base, simply because its infrastructure couldn’t keep up with membership growth. A lot has changed since then. LiveJournal expanded to ...
Storage Startup Nirvanix Upgrades to Brocade
Cloud storage startup Nirvanix implemented routers and switches from Brocade in its networking environment to better accommodate the requirements of its enterprise customers, according to a release that just went out. Fox and National Geographic are among the clients that leverage Nirvanix’s hosted platform, along with several Fortune 500 companies. The firm is expected to ...
An Ego Boost for EMC with Recognition at TSIA 2012
Storage vendor EMC got a huge ego boost at the most recent Technology Services Industry Association conference, where it received two new awards and a meta-trophy for performance over time. The company picked up STAR Awards in two categories: Innovation in Enabling Customer Success and Innovation in Product Supportability. The former was given in recognition ...
Permabit Unveils New Albireo Edition for Big Data Environments
Permabit beefed up its OEM embedded dedupe solution with a new version of its flagship and a big partnership with Cibecs. Albireo, one of the fastest deduplication solutions on the market, is now available in a Data Protection Edition that’s designed to accommodate the “rampant data growth” in the enterprise and enhance “backup methods of ...
vFabric GemFire 7.0 Expands Support, Data Awareness
VMware just announced the latest version of its vFabric GemFire software, an in-memory management platform for data-driven mobile and web applications. The 7.0 release features a number of improvements over the previous version, including reduced latency – a vital property for transactional apps. Another new capability is parallel WAN processing, which allows users to deploy ...
Do You Have a Zombie Smartphone? BYOD Monster Mash
Mobile security firms Appthority and Fixmo released a new Halloween-themed infographic that sums up the scary state of BYOD in the enterprise using a few very colorful illustrations. The companies say over 50 percent of all Android users own zombie devices, which run on outdated versions of the operating system. There’s also the vampire app, ...
Google Apps Backup Startup Hires New Chief Revenue Officer to Boost Momentum
Spanning, a provider of cloud backup for cloud applications, announced that it appointed Jeff Erramouspe as its new CRO. The Austin-based startup is best known for its flagship product, Spanning Backup for Google Apps, the highest ranking service in this category on the Google Apps Marketplace. The firm has not released any specific numbers, but says ...
Consumerization of Analytics Arrives with Evolved Hadoop Systems
George Mathew, the President and Chief Operating Office of Alteryx, shared his take on big data with Dave Vellante in a recent Cube interview. Mathew’s first observation is that the whole analytics trend has come a very long way since his last appearance on theCube during SAP’s SAPphire 2010. Back then, he says, the community ...
EMC Falls Short on Revenue, but Services Business is Still Strong
EMC posted its third quarter earnings last week, which reflected the same weakening tren in corporate IT spending that hampered revenue for IBM and Microsoft for the same quarter. EMC earned a net income of $626.3 million, or 28 cents a share, compared with the $605.6 million and 27 cents a share it reported for ...
Meg Whitman’s New Printers Are a Big Step Forward for HP
Former eBay chief Meg Whitman has taken over the CEO of Hewlett-Packard with the goal of slowing down the decline initiated by two of her immediate predecessors. HP’s printer business is one of the several departments Whitman is trying to turn around. HP is the biggest printer vendor by shipments, but it has been lagging ...