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Virtualization a Game Changer in Legacy-Burdened Data Centers, Says Stephen Foskett
Tech Field Day organizer Stephen Foskett stopped by theCube during this week’s Dell World convention to chat about data centers and corporate mobile strategies with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. See part one and part two for the full session (full videos below). Foskett starts off by addressing converged infrastructure. He says that the “Microsoft ...
Virtualization is a Big Opportunity for BPM in 2013 [Predictions]
Miguel Valdés Faura seems to have a knack for predicting big trends in the industry, especially as they pertain to his particular area of expertise. He is the co-founder and CEO of BonitaSoft, a provider of business process management software that has maintained its competitive edge correctly responding to the big shifts that directly influence ...
Evidence Builds for Microsoft Office on the iPad in 2013
Office is coming to iOS, according to multiple reports from the past two months. The latest ones crossed the wire this week, when bloggers came across several mentions of the suspectedly upcoming launch in support documents published by Microsoft’s Romanian subsidiary. The text included keywords such as “Office Mobile for iPhone” and list “Excel for ...
Whipping Flash Into Shape: Whiptail Bags $31M for Energy-Efficient Flash Storage
Whiptail‘s just brought in a $31 million Series C funding round, the result of some strategic investments from SSD maker SanDisk and a “Silicon Valley titan” whose name was not disclosed; capital from Ignition Partners, RRE Ventures and Spring Mountain Capital; and debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. Whiptail makes flash-powered storage arrays, branded Invicta and Accela, which ...
IBM Unveils Optic Data Center Chip for Big Data Workloads
Big Blue developed a new piece of silicon that integrates the electrical circuits found in processors, servers and other data center equipment with optical components that can deliver much faster connectivity than its traditional counterparts. The new technology is called “silicon nanophotonics” and can deliver speeds of up to 25 Gbps per channel by converting ...
Broadcom’s New Mobile Chip: NFC is the New WiFi
Broadcom unveiled a new chip that offers support for near-field communications, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, and FM radio on a single piece of silicon. The BCM43341 is a re-architected replica of a similar chip that only supports the latter three wireless technologies, and can be found in Apple and Samsung devices today. The big thing ...
Zendesk Investor Sees Fresh Potential in Panorama9, Value In Cloud
Panorama9, a Danish cloud startup that specializes in cloud automation, has raised $900,000 in seed funding round from several local angle investors. Among them is Morten Stromsted, who issued a statement to mark the occasion. “As IT teams face a variety of challenges, from BYOD to virtual collaboration, there’s a pressing need for better ways ...
Need Cloud Module Assembly Free of Messy Details? Singly Loves APIs
Singly’s new application fabric went into public beta yesterday, with the premise of allowing developers to focus less on infrastructure and more on user experience. The startup is offering an API service that allows users to choose and implement cloud modules in their application without having to worry about the messy details. Singly’s platform includes ...
Couchbase Server 2.0: NoSQL for Documents
Couchbase just revealed the newest release of its flagship database management system. Couch Server 2.0 includes new features designed to compliment a broader range of use cases than before, as well as major enhancements to core functionality that will improve things across the board. One of the additions is a JSON-based data model that allows ...
Dell Wants to Solve the BYOD Problem with Kace Line-up, New Mobile Appliance
Hardware maker Dell unveiled a new mobile solution that aims to make it easier for enterprises to manage employee-owned devices in the enterprise. The K3000 appliance joins the K1000 admin platform for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, and the K2000 box for system deployment and app migration. The K3000 supports phones and tablets running iOS ...