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Cisco’s New UCS is Under Pressure to Compete
Networking equipment and software provider Cisco has announced the third generation of its Unified Computing Systems (USC) or “fabric computing:” X86 servers, networking equipment and storage all squeezed into a single enclosure. The newest release features enhancements to the management software that handles it all, in addition to performance increases, but analyst Dan Kusnetzky believes that ...
VMware Partners Adopt Cloud Portfolios
Virtualization software maker VMware has a massive ecosystem of resellers, and a portion of them had some news today relating to their relationships with the company. Logicalis is the first one. The firm announced that it has integrated VMware’s open-source PaaS, Logicalis Enterprise Cloud, into the Logicalis Enterprise Cloud hosted service. Customers can take advantage ...
SAP Expands in MEMA as Part of the $25 Billion Revenue Plan
The year 2015 will be a very significant one for SAP, as the business software giant promised its investors $25 billion in revenue in four years. In order to realize these plans the company is branching out, both into new industries such as cloud and mobile, and new markets. The Middle East and North Africa ...
Dell Acquires SonicWall to Expand Security Portfolio
Hardware maker Dell is looking to strengthen its position in the enterprise, both organically and via other investments. Today the company announced its latest deal – the acquisition of SonicWALL, a maker of networking security solutions. Terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, although the transaction will probably be a significant one based on ...
Dell and HP Pursue Cloud Angle with Apps, PaaS
Consumer manufacturers Dell and Hewlett-Packard are looking towards the cloud as a means to bail out on a fragile PC industry, and both of the mega-vendors are working on massive initiatives to realize their respective but not dissimilar plans. Dell is looking to become a one-stop-shop SaaS vendor, according to Bill Odell, senior director of ...
Nirvanix Announces Latest High-Profile Client: National Geographic Society
Cloud storage startup Nirvanix is one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, and SiliconANGLE has been following them closely throughout the past couple of years. The latest update is that the National Geographic Society, which deals with very large unstructured files, moved its backup and archival processes to the Nirvanix Cloud Network. “Given the ...
The jQuery Replacement Has Arrived: AppMobi’s New HTML5 Framework
AppMobi released version 1.0 of jqMobi, an HTML5-based alternative to the jQuery JavaScript framework that was specifically developed for mobile. We covered the original launch in January, and the mobile development solutions maker made a big point of comparing the two platforms, demonstrating some figures that show why jqMobi is the best option for mobile app makers. ...
Weekly Tablet Business App Roundup: It’s All about the Notes
This week’s tablet business app list features two applications that fall under one of the most fleshed out categories in the genre: note taking apps, that while offering different functionality still build upon the basic concept of capturing ideas on the go. The main difference is that some apps do it better than others and ...
This Week in Big Data: New Alliances, HBaseCon and ClickFox
This past week in big data features several updates, in addition to the regular stream of industry commentary SiliconANGLE is producing. The news includes the convergence of several players in this market, a new event that further strengthens Cloudera’s position in the community, and a notable case study from ClickFox. First up is freshly announced ...
This Week in the Cloud: Analytics, VDI and PaaS
This week in the cloud has been – once again – a very interesting one overall. The first update comes from Scala, which is introducing the cloud and analytics to a market that is making good time catching up with IT: the digital signage industry. The firm introduced a new hosted/on-premise app this week that ...