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Actian Wants to Pay $140M for Pervasive, Not Working Out So Far
Pervasive Software offers software and services for big data application development, including a cloud platform, a database solution and even documentation brokerage. New this week is news that the firm received an unsolicited buyout offer from Actian, and bluntly turned it down. Actian however is pretty determined to acquire Pervasive, so they did the next ...
Hewlett-Packard’s Massive Job Cuts Won’t Affect India
Back in May hardware giant HP announced plans to cut 8 percent of its global workforce, or 27,000 employees, by 2014. We ranked it as one of the worse tech layoffs in 2012, right up there next to the massive internal shuffles at Nokia, Sony and Cisco. At the time chief executive Meg Whitman said ...
The New Cloud Marketplace Makes for Very Driven Vendors
The tactic behind the one-stop shop is building up a lot of traction, not just for traditional IT but also the cloud, although it conveys a somewhat different meaning in this space. Specialized marketplaces enable customers to browse individual solutions from different vendors in one place, rather than having to skim through a bunch of ...
Global Outsourcing is Sluggish: European Debt Crisis and “In-Sourcing” to Blame
The Everest Group published its second Market Vista report for the 2012 fiscal year, which reports the state of global outsourcing based on public data that the consultancy collects. The Q2 installment reveals a slow-down in this space – only 411active outsourcing deals remain this quarter compared to 441in Q1 and 516 in the same quarter ...
Marketing is the Most Hyped Cloud Trend, Email the Most Mature
Research firm Gartner has released its annual Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing, 2012. The report examines expectations versus maturity in the cloud market and potential of each individual segment. The conclusion – enterprises need to focus less on the marketing, and more on the operational advantage that the cloud could potentially realize for their organization. Gartner lists cloud-based email, sales ...
Infosys Sued For Visa Fraud: Another Big Blow to Outsourcing Market
Infosys is the third largest player in the Indian IT market and now it faces an employee lawsuit that could lead to a lot of trouble. The firm makes most of its money from providing outsourcing services to customers in the U.S. and Europe. According to WSJ Satya Dev Tripuraneni, a former accounts manager at ...
Fusion-io’s Q4 Beats Revenue Expectations
Flash storage vendor Fusion-io reported its earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter this week, beating the market’s revenue estimates while not falling short in other metrics either. Fusion reported sales of $106.6 million, a 49 percent increase from the $71. 7 million it disclosed for the same period last year. Revenue was considerably higher than the ...
This Week in the Cloud: from VMware’s Octopus to iCloud
There were a few big updates this week, and the most buzzworthy was probably a disclosure from a VMware exec that we could see Project Octopus launch sometime during this month’s VMworld. A number of new details have been disclosed about the upcoming product as well. Project Octopus is the internal nickname of a Dropbox-like ...
SolidFire Gains a Foothold in UK Channel Islands
Storage vendor SolidFire says that Calligo, “the UK Channel Islands’ only complete cloud service provider,” is using its all-flash storage appliances to power its application environment. The company says that Calligo chose its product because it offered the performance and scale that the provider required to support a portfolio of several thousand applications. “We chose ...
New Cloud Backup Perks for Mainframes with Luminex, Nirvanix Team Up
‘Virtual Tape’ provider LUMINEX and storage startup Nirvanix have teamed up to offer a cloud-based enterprise backup solution that is specifically targeted at mainframe users. Physical tape, shipping and off-site storage all leave a mark on a customer’s bottom line when they’re using traditional backup, not to mention the inaccessibility of all that data. This ...