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Tata Consultancy’s Bad Rep Bad for Business
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the India-based Tata Group, has gotten itself in a bit trouble now that two former employees are launching a class-action suit against the company. Their motion was finally approved by a U.S court this week. The background is that these individuals have opened the initial case against TCS ...
SAP President Resigns for Unknown Reason
In a statement released this week SAP said Robert Courteau, the man in charge of its operations and sales in North America, has left the company. He’s been with the business software maker since 2004, and has been serving as president of the NA region for over a year. Global sales head Robert Enslin has become ...
Make Technologies Latest Acquisition on Dell’s Shopping List
Dell acquired a company called Make Technologies for an undisclosed amount – its fifth buy this year and the third for this week. This is compared with the eight deals Dell struck last year. Make offers services to enterprises that are upgrading their data centers but still want to use their legacy apps on a ...
VMware’s Upcoming Earnings Report and How it’s Tied to EMC
VMware announced the date of its earnings call for the first quarter of 2012. There’s no forecast available publicly at the time of writing, but the company has seen a lot of growth in recent quarters. The official posting is as follows: VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, plans to announce ...
OpenLogic Announces SPDX, Code Contributions
OpenLogic is, as the name implies, an open-source company. It makes an open PaaS called CloudSwing that’s designed to offer more flexibility to enterprise users leveraging multiple technology stacks, and also offers a free compliance tool called OSS Discovery. OSS software is open as well, and fullfills a very important role in the development process. ...
HP Joins the Army: $250M Deal for Data
Hewlett-Packard is one of the many vendors that are benefiting from the U.S government’s plans to modernize its IT infrastructure, a very wide-scale initiative that was kicked off by the current administration with the appointment of the nation’s first CTO. HP’s server group has been assigned with the task of powering up cloud computing services ...
FalconStor Hires Former CA Marketing Chief to Lead Partner Sales
Data protection firm FalconStor is looking to boost its relatively flat performance throughout the past couple of years, and strengthening the executive leadership seems to be one of the first steps. To be more precise, the company hired Gary Quinn, the former executive vice president of international sales and North American channel sales at CA ...
Tintri Takes On Cloning, VMware Integration
Tintri, the company that makes purpose-built storage appliances for virtual machines, rolled out an update to its flagship Tintri VMstore platform that adds several enhancements on top of the existing functionality. One of the new features is virtual machine cloning, which can help admins better cover a number of processes. Being able to fire up hundreds ...
ViaWest Raises $65M for Hosted Services, Plans Future Growth
Privately held data center operator ViaWest received $65 million in debt financing to be used in ‘future growth initiatives,’ which presumably means a continuation of the company’s past and current efforts to expand. The bulk of the sum came from RBC Capital Markets, and the remaining $10 million was provided by Barclays Private Credit Partners ...
Nimble CRM Adds App to Chrome Web Store
Nimble is looking to revolutionize CRM at a scale that was previously associated, for the most part, with more legacy offerings. The company is essentially modernizing relations management, adding in factors from recent trends such as cloud and cross-platform support. The latter encompasses mobile, as well as web. Nimble launched an app on Google‘s Chrome ...