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SugarSync Adds Unlimited Cloud Storage to Attract Business Users
Cloud sync provider SugarSync upgraded its business pricing plans to better accommodate large organizations with lots of files and large user bases. It’s the latest development from the cloud service as it transitions deeper into the enterprise space, having won over the consumer market. SugarSync for Business now starts at a flat price of $55 ...
Analyst Calls BlackBerry a Dinosaur, BB10 Half-Baked [VIDEO]
One of this week’s top NewsDesk segments featured Wikibon networking guru Stu Miniman, who discussed the new face of BlackBerry and what it means for the future of the company (full video below). Miniman starts by recapping on the latest news from the Canadian phonemaker: it unveiled the new operating system BB10, announced several new ...
Fusion-io Falls Victim to its Own Success. Apple + Facebook Will Return as Top Clients
Fusion-io shares plummeted as much as 21 percent on the stock exchange yesterday after it reported financial results for the second quarter of 2012. Fusion-io generated $120.6 million in Q2, a 43 percent increase from a year earlier and a quarter million bucks more than what Wall Street expected. Net profit was $1.7 million, compared ...
[Infographic] MuleSoft’s Top 10 Super Bowl APIs
Cloud integration startup MuleSoft is flaunting its new API repository with an infographic published just in time for the Super Bowl. The chart lists 10 services that developers can tap into in order to monetize consumer trends during and after the big game. The first API is from Food2u, a hot meal delivery service that ...
Cisco Actively Buying Enterprise Startups, Backs Away from Consumer Market
Cisco just acquired Cognitive Security for an undisclosed sum. The Prague-based startup makes networking monitoring software that analyzes big data to identify potential threats. Cisco Head of Corporate Business Development Hilton Romanski announced the news in a statement and commented that “Cognitive Security’s technology identifies and detects security anomalies, and when coupled with the network ...
WANdisco Teams with Hortonworks to Eliminate Hadoop SPOF
WANdisco joined the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program to help customers achieve maximum uptime in their Hadoop deployment. The Silicon Valley-based developer offers replication software that syncs servers in real time to make sure settings and data are available, even in the case of a failure. The platform works across both local area networks and WANS ...
Disappointing Outlook from VMware Triggers Investor Panic
VMware reported record performance in the fourth quarter of 2012, but a pessimistic guidance drove down its stock by as much as 22.4 percent on Tuesday. The virtualization vendor said that it made a net profit of $206 million in Q4, an increase from the $200 million profit it posted a year earlier. Sales were ...
EMC-Greenplum Unifies Big Data Worlds for IT + Scientists Alike
EMC is introducing a new big data appliance that is capable of processing both structured and unstructured workloads, truly taking advantage of some of Greenplum’s latest developments. The EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance, abbreviated DCA, integrates several different technologies to deliver the functionality that the storage vendor is touting. The solution includes Greenplum’s MPP database ...
Hortonworks Support of OpenStack Could Boost Charisma Points
Hortonworks has finally joined the OpenStack Foundation, the independent non-profit that was spun off from its parent initiative at Rackspace in 2012. It’s not entirely surprising to see Hortonworks’ support of OpenStack, which has gained quite a number of high profile fans and contributors from the very beginning. As Hortonworks comes into its own, being ...
Seagate-Virident Partnership a Necessary Step Forward, says Wikibon Analyst
Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer discussed Seagate’s $40 million investment in Virident and the alliance that has emerged from the move on this morning’s NewsDesk program with Kristin Feledy (full video below). Floyer says that this update comes as a very big surprise to him, considering the background of the two companies: Seagate is a ...