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VMware Unveils vFabric Suite 5.1 With New Add Ons
Virtualization solutions maker VMware announced the latest version of the vFabric Suite, a platform that’s meant to support Spring Java applications running on cloud infrastructure powered by the company’s power. vFabric 5.1 features several new capabilities, including the addition of support for open source tools such as Postgres, Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server and the ...
Hewlett-Packard Unveiles New Servers, Gets More Cloud Attention
Taking a small break from all the buzz surrounding HP Cloud Services, Hewlett-Packard reaffirmed the plus side of being a large vendor with strong relations. Just 24 hours after Intel’s new server chipsets were announced, HP unveiled a new lineup of ProLiant servers for the SMB market that ship with freshly baked Xeon under the ...
More from SAPphire 2012: HANA, New Services and Cloud Strategy
It’s Day 2 of SAPphire NOW 2012, and the steady flow of updates streaming out of the event still persists. HANA hasn’t disappointed yet, and is in the center of the three day conference as expected, while the ecosystem expands with each announcement and SAP is getting ready to make yet another major push into ...
YouSendIt Appoints Brad Garlinghouse as CEO to Bolster Cloud Growth
It can’t be said that YouSendIt hasn’t been remarkably successful in the collaboration space. The popular service has more than 30 million users as of the first quarter of this year, and it counts 98 percent of the Fortune 500 companies as clients. Today we’ve learned just how extremely keen YouSendIt is to maintain this ...
Xeround Integrates MySQL DBaaS with Two Developer Platforms
Traditional database vendor-turned cloud DB service provider Xeround said that it’s making its database-as-a- service for MySQL apps available on two additional platforms. It will be offered in the form of an add-on for AppHarbor .NET, as well as AppFog’s PHP environment. This opens up the solution to two rather broad demographics of developers. The ...
MuleSoft Upgrades Integration Platform with Connector Kit, Apps and More
Integration specialist MuleSoft launched the latest version of its platform today, and with it introduced a drastically expanded feature set and ecosystem. Mule iON SaaS Edition is designed to save cloud providers and SIs much more code than before, the company said. Mule iON covers a lot of ground in an effort to achieve the ...
Accenture becomes first Major SI to Invest in HANA
Accenture has been setting all sorts of records as of late. A month ago it became the first company to launch a public cloud service based on Microsoft Azure, and now it’s flexing its R&D muscle at SAP SAPphire 2012. One of the highlights of this week’s gathering is Accenture’s revelation of its intentions to carry out ...
Dysonics Gets $750K in Seed Funding for Audio Kinect
Dysonics is a young startup with strong roots in academia that claims it can set a new standard for consuming audio via mobile devices, and Rawah Partners was willing to bet $750,000 on this promise. The seed financing was announced a few days ago is a big milestone for the company, which is gearing up ...
SAP Reveals Mobile Innovations Ahead of SAPphire 2012
SAP SAPphire Now 2012 is kicking off today, and among the early news that the German BI software maker announced are two major expansions to its mobile portfolio. Mobile and the HANA in-memory analytics platform will be two of the hottest discussion points at the event, and we’ll be covering in all this week. ...
SAP HANA Timeline: One Year Review
HANA’s in-memory analytics platform is expected to be a hot topic at SAP’s Sapphire Now event, now that it’s had a full year to test the market. Just short of a year ago Fujitsu became one of the first major hardware vendors to adopt HANA across a very large portion of its portfolio, stretching servers, storage and ...