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Brocade Debuts More Scalable Switches Ahead of Conference
Brocade Technology Day is kicking off this morning, and a few big product updates already crossed the wire. The networking equipment maker is debuting a number of new products that tout more capacity and less latency than previous generations. The latest addition to Brocade’s data center fabric line-up is the VDX 8770 chassis switch. It’s ...
EMC Seeks a Way to Track Electronic Waste, Finds 3 Winning Solutions
EMC partnered up with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and InnoCentive, Inc. a consultancy that specializes in helping organizations with their crowdsourcing projects, to set up the Eco- Challenge. An open call was sent out, asking individuals around the world to submit their idea for a solution that could be used to track shipments of electronic ...
A Fuss-Free Buyout for Salesforce
Cloud CRM provider Salesforce apparently didn’t bother to make a fuss over the acquisition of BlueTail, a small Israeli startup that was developing data mining technology. AllThingsD’s Arik Hesseldahl deemed the deal an ‘acqhire’, because it seems that Salesforce was more interested in the talent than in the brand and assets. BlueTail’s Alon Talmor was ...
CumuLogic Gets Startup Accelerator Funding from Citrix
Cloud Java startup CumuLogic is the latest chosen by Citrix to join its incubator program. Neither party disclosed how much seed funding exchanged hands, but it’s a big boost for CumuLogic nonetheless. The Citrix Startup Accelerator was created in celebration of the 15th anniversary virtualization firm’s initial public offering with the goal of making 12 ...
Nebula Promises Secures Big Investment Dollars
OpenStack is making news again, and this time is for something more than the competition with CloudStack. Nebula, a start up founded in 2011, is betting that its vision of a “plug-and-play” enterprise class OpenStack cloud will appeal to customers that have don’t have the desire or expertise to customize the technology. Investors agree, and have shown their support with ...
HP’s Out to Stop Hackers, Detect Fraud and Secure the Stack
HP has been trying to corner the enterprise cybersecurity market for about a year now, when this area first started drawing serious attention from the heavy-weights. And lucky for HP, their latest security portfolio expansion brings the company a step closer to achieving that goal. Today HP released a host of new offerings that aim ...
Nimble Storage Raises $40.7M for SME Flash
Flash startup Nimble Storage just received $40.7 million in mezzanine funding, increasing the total capital the company raised to date to nearly $98 million. The over-subscribed round was led by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, with participating from all of Nimble’s existing investors and new backer GGV Capital. Nimble will use the money to bolster ...
This Week in Big Data: Public Sector, Twitter Ads and More
Luminar is an emerging player in the analytics space that is poised to play a big part in the 2012 presidential election. The company touts itself as the first big data firm that focuses on the U.S’s Latino population, and it’s now offering politicians the opportunity to gain a better insight into this key demographic. ...
This Week in the Cloud: Microsoft’s Multi-Pronged Attack
Microsoft had no less than three major product updates this week, starting with the general availability of Windows Server 2012. The latest version of Microsoft’s flagship server platform can be considered as a full-fledged cloud OS – the 2012 release packs a number of improvements, including enhancements to Hyper-V, which make it that much better ...
CumuLogic Adds Supports for HP Cloud Services
CumuLogic is a relatively new player in the PaaS space. The company announced its enterprise Java platform just a few months ago, with support for vSphere and Citrix CloudStack on launch. A few months later CumuLogic rolled out the finalized 1.0 release of Application Platform and as of this week customers can deploy it on ...