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ScaleXtreme Bringing Cloud Automation to iOS
ScaleXtreme is a maker of server automation software that has been very busy with R&D over the past few months. The latest update from the company addresses the mobile and general BYOD trends many of its enterprise clients have likely adopted. ScaleXtreme’s newest solution is an iPhone app that brings some of the functionality of ...
Texas School District Chooses VCE to Power Students
The Tyler Independent School District, the largest in Northeast Texas, is leveraging technology from the EMC-backed VCE to power over 27 schools–a total of about 20,000 students and faculty. “Looking to expand students’ ability to learn beyond a seven-hour school day, five days a week, Tyler ISD’s school environment needed to transform its IT infrastructure ...
Zayo Acquisitions do a Double Take: Arialink Buy Beefs Up Networking Rivalries
The networking industry’s M&A scene has been very active recently, with several major deals announced throughout the past few weeks. The Zayo Group, a fiber infrastructure solutions provider, can now account for not one but two of those items. This morning, shortly after a previous deal was revealed by the company, we learned that Zayo ...
Broadcom Makes 10th Acquisition in Israel with BroadLight Deal
Broadcom announced that it has finalized an agreement to acquire BroadLight for $230 million. The two companies share more than just similar names: both Broadcom and the Israeli-based Broadlight make chips designed for networking purposes, which is why it’s rather easy to tell how the latter’s IP will blend into the company’s existing portfolio. “BroadLight ...
Cisco’s Latest Push Addresses BYOD’s Evolution
Cisco is still very much a networking company–it’s only expanding its horizons, and is actively spilling into some of the newer segments of IT that overlap with its core market. The cloud is one example, and now there’s mobile. The Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, trend is one of several that has been sweeping ...
HP’s Printer Unit to Integrate with PC Group: Rumor
HP has been through a lot of turmoil in the last couple of years, from the huge cuts in R&D budget under Mark Hurd to the prospect of Leo Apotheker spinning off the $42 billion PC-making Personal Systems Group. Today CEO Meg Whiteman is trying to get the hardware giant back on its feet with ...
OnApp Takes on Amazon with a New Breed of Cloud
Amazon Web Services is the titan of the platform-as-a-service space, a status it has achieved thanks to its level of service, maintained by its sheer scale and reach today. As always, however, the IT market is an extremely competitive one, and OnApp is looking to challenge AWS with its new offering. The OnApp Storage Software transforms ...
Tobii Receives Over $20M from Intel Capital, Sees Potential in Mobile, NFC
Simplification is big in the data center, as well as in the consumer devices market. Innovations such as near-field communications are being perfected to stretch some of the boundaries currently limiting the end points in the hands of customers, and in more ways than one. NFC is seeing early adoption in the financial services industry, ...
Zayo Acquires AboveNet in its Biggest Deal Yet
Bandwidth behemoth Zayo has entered into an agreement to acquire AboveNet, another fiber infrastructure company, for a massive $2.2 billion. Zayo is a publicly traded company but its latest investment is not; investors were ecstatic after the news hit and ABVT skyrocketed 13 percent to $83.93. The Wall Street Journal picked up some of the extra ...
CloudBeam Picks HP for Cloud Infrastructure
Data center operator and cloud services provider CloudBeam released a use study today describing the advantages it gained by upgrading its infrastructure to HP 3PAR. CloudBeam ran its hosted CRM, collaboration and storage plans on EMC CLARiiON storage area network before the rip and replace. It wasn’t specified exactly which generation of the now discontinued product ...