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Symantec Launches New Versions of Backup Solutions
Symantec has released the latest versions of two of its enterprises backup and recovery offerings, which the company said took two years of 1,600 developers’ time to upgrade. Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5 will ship with several major improvements, first and foremost separate editions of the two referred to as V-Ray. The new branding ...
Microsoft on Mobile: Upcoming Launch, Shaky Competitor Relations
Software giant Microsoft is one of the many companies heavily invested the PC industry that have decided to apply the phrase “if you can’t beat them, join them” to their approach with the mobile market. The latest development is news that it will be bring the Dynamics CRM platform to mobile sometime in the second quarter ...
LBC Startup Mobeam Raises an Extra $1.5M
An up and coming company named Mobeam announced that it has received $1.5 million in funding from the Korea-based DFJ Athena VC fund and Ben DuPont. DuPont participated in Mobeam’s first $4.9 million round of funding, and has been serving as the chairman of the board ever since. The startup managed to trigger investors’ curiosity ...
HTC Has High Hopes for MWC as Earnings Falter
Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC reported its far-from-optimistic fiscal forecast for Q1, during which the steady decline in revenue and share price it has seen throughout last year will likely persist. HTC expects to see something in the range of $2.20-2.37 billion in sales next quarter, below analysts’ average approximation of $3.04 billion. That’s the equivalent ...
McAfee 2.0 Tops This Week’s iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps
In this week’s mobile countdown it’s three Android apps that take the spotlight. In the past week or so McAfee, Google and the BBC all updated or rolled out new apps for the open-source OS, as a part of a long-stretching inbound of mobile goodness that flipped our roundup upside down. Android McAfee Mobile Security ...
This Week in Cloud: How Analytics, Video and Law Firms Got Involved in it All
The past week was made particularly interesting for the cloud industry thanks to the diversity of some of the more noticeable updates we picked up. The first highlight comes from Totango, an analytics-as-a-service that caters specially to the aaS market. The concept does stand out in the crowd. For a monthly subscription cloud providers can ...
SAP-Success Factors Merger Delayed by Legislators
Business software maker SAP finalized an agreement to acquire cloud-based HR solutions provider Success Factors back in December last year. The deal and the details involved were announced towards the end of that month: SAP said it would pay $3.4 billion for Success Factors, which was then 52 percent higher than the valuation of the company based ...
Getting “Transferred” Tops the List of Reasons We Hate Customer Service: Infographic
ClickFox, a maker of analytics software that focuses specifically on customer behavior, has been releasing reports covering the various elements of its business on a fairly regular basis. The latest one is the second annual Consumer Tipping Points survey, which looks into what were the biggest CS issues for consumers in 2011 and how they ...
Piston Cloud Teams up with Three DevOps Titans
Piston Cloud is one of the biggest supports of OpenStack out there. This is mainly because the company, which was founded by some of the people who’ve contributed the most to the project, based its flagship offering on the cloud OS. Piston has added proprietary components of its own to OpenStack and now offers it ...
Revolution Analytics Finds a New CEO
Revolution Analytics, a maker of analytics software powered by the R statistical programming language, announced a major staffing change at the very core of the company’s leadership. Dr. Norman Nie will continue to serve as a director and a Senior Advisor for Products and Strategy for the new chief exec, David Rich. Rich Joins Revolution ...