This Week in the Cloud: All About End-Users
A lot of the main highlights from the past few days can be traced back to the personal cloud rather than the enterprise, and although the latter category is still very much adequately represented…
FalconStor Pays $5.8M to Cover Up Old Mess
Backup and recovery solutions maker FalconStor is doing fine right now. It recently snagged an award for its popular Virtual Tape Library (VTL) offering, and according to an older update from earlier this month…
Google’s “Cloudy” Future: It’s All about Content Streaming
News from the 3-day Google I/O conference is already pouring out of the event. The main angle is content, and the new platforms from which Android users can access it. Google Play, the search…
Chrome OS Gets Some Love from Pano Logic
Pano Logic sells organizations specialized hardware and software that offer a full desktop experience on stripped-down end points, safer and more affordable than an actual PC. The company carved itself a niche in the…
Piston Cloud and GridCentric Unveil OpenStack-powered VDI
Piston Cloud, a startup that offers a commercial distribution of the OpenStack cloud OS, announced an OEM agreement with GridCentric to integrate its VMS technology with Piston Enterprise. Gridcentric’s Virtual Memory Streaming software is a…
Infineta Joins NetApp Ecosystem
Storage vendor NetApp is steadily getting more and more involved with big data. Earlier this month the company debuted an integrated box that is built to run Hadoop, and shortly thereafter announced a significant…
Cisco and Citrix: Two Peas in a Pod
Networking behemoth Cisco and virtualization software maker Citrix announced a new partner program this week that offers a number of incentives to resellers in the VDI space. More specifically, only partners who deliver Cisco…
Sumo Logic Goes Freemium with Data Analysis
Log management software startup Sumo Logic went out of stealth just a few months ago, and it has been keeping very busy ever since. The company dove right into a freemium model this week…
Accenture Closes Three Deals in One Week
IT consultancy Accenture had a pretty good run last week, according to a Trefis report that says the company closed three high-profile deals in just seven days. Accenture’s first agreement was with Nordea, the…
Red Hat Follows up JBoss Launches with Three More
Open-source software kingpin Red Hat announced updates to a few of its products, just a few days after a similar-sized roll out. This morning the company debuted the latest release of its Enterprise Business…