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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 ...
HP webOS Executive Shakeup Reflects a Challenging Mobile Market
Hewlett-Packard acquired Palm in hopes of developing a successful mobile portfolio, but that didn’t go as well as expected. There were several reasons for the failure, most importantly bad timing: HP started offering up webOS-powered handsets long after Android and iOS already gobbled up most of the mobile market. The hardware giant eventually ended up pulling ...
Falconstor Aims to Be Apple’s Time Machine for the Enterprise [VIDEO]
Falconstor is a maker of backup and recovery solutions that wants to transform the way enterprises handle their data, as chief executive Jim McNeil explains during a recent interview with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante (see the full interview below). In the last couple of years FalconStor has done a bit of recovery of its own. Founder and ...
The New SAP is All about Apps, Cloud and Big Data
SAP co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann took hold of the company just a couple of years ago, but are already transforming it into something far beyond just another legacy software provider. The co-leaders promoted an important message last year, one that the company has reiterated on several occasions since, which shares their plan for ...
Tax Team Up in the Cloud: Automation Across SAP, QuickBooks to Start
Mulesoft offers a hosted integration platform which it refers to as the Mule iON integration platform as a service (iPaaS,) and the solution sports a line-up of applications that make up its ecosystem. The newest is called iApp4Tax, borne of a collaboration between Mulesoft and Avalara, a software developer that makes tax management and reporting ...
Cloud Accounts for 35 Percent of SMB Primary Backup
While storage titan EMC, HP and IBM are racing towards a competitive edge in the never-ending enterprise hardware wars, cloud backup providers are also seeing their market expand – and competition is growing as a result. A study by StorageCraft and Symform observed the backup and recovery practices of 600 small and medium businesses–specifically how cloud services ...
BYOD with IBM and SAP Australia
Mobile workers are becoming a trend, and not just in the IT industry. One of the major indications validating this market’s exponential growth is that several of the largest vendors are jumping on the same bandwagon, including mega-vendors such as IBM and SAP. These two companies are targeting the same market, and are both eating ...
Dell Expands Partner Relations, Enhances Feedback Aggregation
Dell had a few updates this week, including several developments that concern its partner ecosystem and the overhaul of its IdeaStorm product suggestions site. The first item was picked up by the UK’s Register. The hardware maker is expanding its foothold in Europe via a new extension of a 14-month old partnership with IT solutions ...
Clio Opens Platform with New API
Clio is a SaaS provider that managed to come up with its own unique twist to the cloud, which has been reinvented more than a handful of time by the many different vendors in this increasingly crowded market. Clio did so by choosing a very niche market: lawyers. Smaller firms and independent practitioners can’t afford ...
Citrusleaf Introduces Smart Replication for Hadoop
Database solutions developer Citrusleaf launched a new offering for general availability today – a replication engine that runs on top of its flagship Citrusleaf 2.0 NoSQL platform. Cross Datacenter Replication (XDR) is unique thanks to the fact it addresses a couple of different points the company’s customers are undoubtedly looking at, and delivers a good ...