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Huawei Aggressively Targets Storage Market
“Our business is changing, and our customers’ needs are changing. We need to enter these markets,” said Jeff Jiang, the head of Huawei‘s storage marketing. The Chinese ITC firm sells networking equipment to telcoms, and is now seeing a big opportunity to expand into the storage and server markets: enterprises are storing more and more data. Huawei ...
GM to Bring IT Talent-in House, $600M contract with HP at Risk
Auto giant General Motors is one of HP’s biggest clients. The company currently outsources about 90 percent of its IT needs, and its automobile business alone pays Hewlett-Packard $350 million annually. The firms also announced a separate deal in 2010 that is valued at $2 billion, and there’s also a third one on top of ...
Dell, Internet2 Reaches Milestone in Networking Project
Internet2 is a joint venture between about two dozen universities in the US that was started in the 90s’ with the goal of delivering the academia a better IP network. It raised about $100 million in funding to date and right now, the construction of an OpenFlow based software-defined network is the number one item ...
This Week in Big Data: VCs, Cloud All Over the Place
This past week featured a big push into the cloud by Kognitio, new from Fujitsu and Datameer and a couple of funding rounds. We can start with those. Clustrix offers database appliances that run the company’s distributed database on hardware that, among other things, includes a lot of flash. This combo makes for a big ...
Google+ for iPad Tops This Week’s Business Tablet App Roundup
A couple days ago Google debuted a G+ app for the iPad that is not merely a tablet-optimized social networking client, but also a very viable tool for business users thanks to one powerful feature. Hangout is a built-in video conferencing widget that allows for high-quality communications between peers using the network, and is joined ...
This Week in the Cloud: Funding, VMware and Open-Source
A number of updates were revealed this week, and out of the ones in this roundup three of them involve VMware in one way or another. The first one, however, comes from Cloudability, and it doesn’t involve the virtualization firm in any way. Cloudability makes software that monitors usage across IaaS and PaaS accounts. It ...
CumuLogic Reveals PaaS Building Platform for the Enterprise
CumuLogic debuted Cloud Application Platform v1.0 this week, a software solution that allows companies to build a PaaS for Java applications based on their existing virtualized environment. Application Platform can run on VMware vSphere, OpenStack and Citrix CloudStack. “As one of the first CloudStack partners to be certified Citrix Ready, CumuLogic remains an important ecosystem partner ...
Relay Improves Drug Development with TIBCO Tech
Relay dubs itself as a life sciences big data company. It applies insight from unstructured and structured data sets to the pharmaceutical process, and offers value in the laboratory rather than directly from the business angle. Relay’s product is called Business Development Live, a real-time visualization solution that is now powered by TIBCO’s in-memory analytics ...
SAP Reports Strong Q2 Results
This week business intelligence software maker SAP held an earnings call for the second quarter of fiscal 2012. The company generated a profit of €0.92 billion, 7 percent more than in the same period last year, on revenue of €3.90 billion. That’s about 4.75 billion US dollars – 12 percent more than what SAP reported ...
QLogic Earnings Call Due in Two Weeks
Networking equipment maker QLogic announced that it will be reporting its results for the first quarter of the 2013 fiscal year on June 26. Here’s the official statement that the company sent out today. “Following the press release, QLogic will conduct a conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time (5:00 p.m. Eastern Time). Simon Biddiscombe, ...