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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 ...
How the Hadoop Ecosystem is Evolving: the VC Perspective
The big data ecosystem is marching forward, constantly being shaped by the emerging players, as well as more established vendors spearheading the charge. The same can be said of the venture capitalists and investors that stand behind these startups, and the numbers are all there to back this up. Last year ServicesANGLE editor Alex Williams ...
Engine Yard Strengthens Partner Relations with New ‘Tracks’
PaaS provider Engine Yard, the particular favorite of Rails and PHP developers, announced a big moved designed to bolster its ecosystem and make its platform more attractive on the broader scope. The company put an emphasis on categorizing its partners, and developed specialized ‘tracks’ for them which they can follow in order to maximize the ...
dotCloud Gets an Upgrade – More Support and Scalability
dotCloud is a PaaS provider with a very simple agenda: supporting as many languages and databases as possible, with the intent of providing developers with flexibility otherwise not be available on competing platforms. Today the company made the latest push to strengthen this plan. As of this morning dotCloud offers three new things to its ...
Cloudera Adds Two New Executives to Boost Expansion
Cloudera is one of the handful of companies spearheading the enterprise solutions around big data and Hadoop, the open-source analytics engine that has been transformed from being an Apache-license to a full-blown industry trend. Cloudera is high up in this ecosystem’s food chain, and its latest hires are meant to further promote its status in ...
DH2i Launches out of Stealth with SQL Virtualizer
A new startup called DH2i launched this week, bringing with it a new software offering that aims to make SQL databases more cost-effective in the era of Hadoop and unstructured data. The idea is to prevent SQL sprawl, a term that defines general messiness in IT environments due to an overflow of unmaintained instances, by ...
Dell Fits Flash into its Hybrid Cloud Vision
Dell is one of several IT mega-vendors trying to modernize its portfolio in order to catch up with the competition, coming both the big vendors and the smaller companies spearheading innovation. Cloud is one of the areas the manufacturer is focused on, and its latest initiative is realized via a partnership with Morphlabs. The firm ...