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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 ...
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 ...