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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, ...
New Alliance in Big Data: Pentaho et al. Builds Out Analytics
Three emerging names in the big data space announced an alliance this week that will combine their respective software and services to create a new solution for analyzing customer data. These three companies are Pentaho, Semphonic and Infobright. Pentaho makes BI solutions that analyze companies’ data, while Semphonic offers services and consulting to clients that ...
Big Data for the Data Center: iTRACS and Intel Apply Analytics
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) firm iTRACS showcased its data center power analysis software at last month’s Datacenter Dynamics Converged event in Munich, and demonstrated six different use cases. These are now available upon request from the company, whose offering is based on existing technology from chipmaker Intel. iTRACS’ product goes by the name of ...