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Dell’s Software Buy Strengthens Storage Portfolio
Dell announced what is essentially its software group’s first acquisition: AppAssure, a maker of backup software solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but what we do know is that, unless Dell agreed to pay a particularly outrageous sum for the firm, AppAssure will likely prove to be a good investment in its own, ...
Tablet Business Apps for MWC 2012: NFC for iPad and Android
The 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona will kick off Monday, and we’ll be covering it extensively. Expect several launches by the biggest brands in the mobile industry, as well as by smaller players trying to make the most out of the extra publicity, and a big portion of those launches will be new apps. ...
This Week in Cloud: Hosted Backup, Automation and Remote Private Clouds
This week had a few noticeable developments in the hosting arena as well as the private cloud. The first piece of news in this week’s recap is SunGuard’s newest product – a cloud-based backup service that runs entirely on Amazon Web Services. In essence the offering integrates SunGuard’s encryption, data protection and other technologies with ...
This Week in Big Data: From Hadoop to the New Players & Privacy
Big data is a segment we have been covering extensively here at SiliconANGLE, similarly to cloud and mobile. This is why it seemed more than appropriate to finally dedicate a weekly summary of the biggest news developments from this area in the past seven days. First up, Zettaset revealed a new Hadoop security service named ...
Tintri Powers NHH’s Flash-based VMs
Tintri’s latest case study discusses the Norwegian School of Economics’ (NHH) implementation of its VMstore array to power 120 VMs. The infrastructure services about 3,700 students and faculty worldwide, and will also be used as the backbone of a future VDI initiative current in the works according to the company. The case study itself encompasses ...
EMC and Data Domain: A Profitable Decision
Storage giant EMC has acquired backup company Data Domain for a massive $2.1 BACK in 2009, after winning in a bidding contest against competitor NetApp with an offer $200 million higher than the latter’s. Overall, the merger has worked out okay, according a recent interview with BJ Jenkins, the current head of the integrated unit. ...
Wikibon’s Big Data Data: It’s a Profitable Industry
Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly compiled a couple of charts that lay out the big data market scheme rather accurately, both from an overall point of view and from an individual vendor perspective. The first graph covers a prediction of how much growth this industry will see throughout the next five years – a lot of growth, ...
HP, Dell Took a Hit in Core PC Business: A Disappointing Q1
Rivals Hewlett-Packard and Dell have more than one thing in common. They’re competing in the same markets, from PCs to servers, and they’ve both seen an impact on their businesses from mobile devices. More recently however, Dell and now HP reported weak earnings that failed to meet what Wall Street had in mind. The company ...
We Need to Catch Up with Our Data: REPORT
LogLogic, a company that offers a scalable log and security intelligence platform (LSIP) that addresses the two most talked-about buzzwords in the IT industry today, released a new research paper covering the two trends and how they tie in with data protection. The report was compiled by Echelon One, research firm that specializes in Cybersecurity. ...
OpenLogic Upgrades CloudSwing for Cloud, Data-Driven Workloads
OpenLogic, the provider of ultra-agnostic PaaS CloudSwing, announced the release of several critical improvements to its still-emerging but popular platform. The first addition, which the company says is unique to its solution, is native load balancing on multiple clouds: there’s support for Amazon Web Services and Rackspace for now. This feature comes with application-level monitoring ...