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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 ...
Cisco Expands in Brazil, Education Segment
Brazil is a fast-growing IT market. Companies including Broadcom have expressed interest to strengthen their local presence, and now Cisco is too. IT training and certification is a big emphasis for the networking gear maker, specifically cloud education: as a part of a new alliance with storage giant EMC and its subsidiary VMware, new training courses will become available to partners ...
Dell Boosts Services Portfolio with Clerity Buy
Technology manufacturer Dell has already shared its intentions of pulling away from its consumer businesses, specifically its PC unit, instead re-focusing on the enterprise and the cloud. The reasons are quite clear – it has the likes of Apple to compete with, and selling data center equipment is considerably more profitable than relatively low-margin PC ...
Big Data is the New Natural Resource: New IBM Tool Powers Decision Making
Big Blue finally revealed the fruits of a four-year R&D initiative involving hundreds of IBM engineers, along with resources provided by 200 partners and 100 clients. The initiative aims to realize a motto of being the new enterprises ‘natural resource,’ an observation that is by all means true based on some of the data in ...
Earlybird Takes On European VC Scene with $700M Milestone
Earlybird, the venture capital firm with an investment portfolio based in Europe, announced the $100 million first close of its fourth venture fund. That’s about the half way point for their target sum of $200 million, and brings the total amount of capital Earlybird handled since its foundation in 1997 to $700 million. The new ...
SAP Celebrates 40th Anniversary with Social Gestures, Internal Change
Business software maker SAP turned 40 years old today–four decades through which the company managed to adapt to the key changes in IT, transforming into the mega-vendor of enterprise software it’s become today. Quite notably, analytics received a big mention in an official statement from one of the company’s original founders. “When we began in ...
VMware Pulls the Private Cloud Back into the Enterprise, Plus Training
Virtualization solutions maker VMware is swiftly rounding out an expanding portfolio of personal cloud tools: from software that allows employees to ‘split’ their phones to a work profile and a personal profile, to a SaaS policy enforcement platform. These are already available in the form of the Horizon Application Manager, announced last May, and Horizon ...
$44M Into the Future IBM Will Analyze Two Internets a Day
The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy or ASTRON has been assigned with the task of setting up the backend for the Square Kilometre Array. When turned operational sometime in 2024 the telescope will capture at least one Exabyte worth of cosmic radiation on a daily basis, about twice the amount of data transmitted via the ...
Dell Unveils VDI Product Lineup
Hardware giant Dell revealed three new desktop virtualization offerings today, each designed for different clients. The products are appliances consisting of Dell servers and OEM’s software and VDI components from partners. The first solution is the DVS Simplified Appliance. It includes a Dell server pre-configured with VMs, management software and a hypervisor from virtualization firm ...