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Simplenote Tops this Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup
This week’s app roundup is all about simplicity, and one of the featured apps even has the word in its name. iPad Simplenote Simplenote for iPad tops the list, and the reason is that the application offers exactly what it promises. The app replaced fluff and an over-bloated feature list with automatic note-syncing that the ...
This Week in Big Data: Innovation in Travel and Beyond
There were several major highlights this week coming from the analytics space, and one is the story of an upcoming travel service that aims to achieve for its industry what Google did for search. Hopper is a 2007 startup that is behind Hack/Reduce and a number of other initiatives. One of the founders is Fred ...
Cisco Embraces the Cloud, Third Party Apps
A day after Cisco’s big partnership with Citrix was announced, the networking company rolled out a big update to Linksys Smart WiFi router series’ firmware. The EA2700, EA3500, and EA4500 consumer boxes now give users access to a lot of new functionality via Cisco Connect Cloud, which also opens up a big opportunity for developers. Cisco ...
EnterpriseDB’s Cloud Database Gains over 2,300 Customers
EnterpriseDB debuted Postgres Plus Cloud Database just five months ago, with the premise of a more cost-efficient and easy to use PostgreSQL DB that can run on AWS and HP Cloud Services. The company hasn’t expanded the support roster as of yet, but did manage to build up a rather impressive customer base. In less than six ...
Transparency a Double Edged Sword for Big Data in UK Government
The British government hopped aboard the big data bandwagon this week with a new initiative that’s bent on making the U.K. a better place by sharing information collected by the different agencies. The full details are covered in this white paper, and over 9,000 datasets have been released so far, spanning health, transport, crime and ...
This Week in the Cloud: All About End-Users
A lot of the main highlights from the past few days can be traced back to the personal cloud rather than the enterprise, and although the latter category is still very much adequately represented it’s good to spice up the main theme every now and then. The heart of consumer coverage centered on Google I/O, ...
FalconStor Pays $5.8M to Cover Up Old Mess
Backup and recovery solutions maker FalconStor is doing fine right now. It recently snagged an award for its popular Virtual Tape Library (VTL) offering, and according to an older update from earlier this month it had some big wins in the education sector this quarter. The only real catch is that this all labeled as ...
Google’s “Cloudy” Future: It’s All about Content Streaming
News from the 3-day Google I/O conference is already pouring out of the event. The main angle is content, and the new platforms from which Android users can access it. Google Play, the search giant’s own version of App Store, now features the option to actually buy titles and not just rent them. As far ...
Chrome OS Gets Some Love from Pano Logic
Pano Logic sells organizations specialized hardware and software that offer a full desktop experience on stripped-down end points, safer and more affordable than an actual PC. The company carved itself a niche in the VDI market, and today it took another step forward with the debut of Pano System for Cloud and the accompanying Pano Zero Device. Pano ...
Piston Cloud and GridCentric Unveil OpenStack-powered VDI
Piston Cloud, a startup that offers a commercial distribution of the OpenStack cloud OS, announced an OEM agreement with GridCentric to integrate its VMS technology with Piston Enterprise. Gridcentric’s Virtual Memory Streaming software is a virtualization solution developed for VDI that, among other things, offers a memory reduction of up to 50 percent. That means the ...