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This Week in the Cloud: Fusion-io, PaaS and Facebook
This past week spurred quite a bit of updates from some of the biggest players in the cloud, including Citrix. The virtualization vendor held its annual Citrix Synergy7 conference this week, where it has announced a partnership with Amazon to optimize some of its main services for for Windows and XenServer customers. Further, Citrix also ...
Citrix Synergy 2011 Recap: Mobile, Open Cloud & VDI
The Citrix Synergy 2011 this week spurred a lot of developments for Citrix, and focused on three major areas: desktop virtualization (VDI), the company’s core business, as well as mobile and the open cloud – two areas the company’s demonstrated a lot of interest in lately. The jam-packed conference kicked off by a demo of ...
The Oracle-Google Saga: a Never-ending Story
The Oracle vs. Google court battle took yet another turn this week when the federal judge overseeing the Java patent litigation said the trial may have to be delayed until authorities finish reexamining some of Oracle’s patents. This process may turn out to be a pretty lengthy one, considering the time frames usually involved: “Oracle ...
Capgemini Offers Support for SAP Applications on AWS
At the SAP SAPphire Now conference last week, the German software maker with a goal of reaching $28 billion in revenue by 2015 announced that customers will be able to run its BusinessObjects and Rapid Deployment offerings on Amazon’s cloud. The company also announced 3rd party providers will start offering deployment, migration and other services ...
EMC Ramps up Support for IT’s Biggest Trends
Storage giant EMC is investing a lot in staying up to date with all the major shifts going on in the cloud, and of these areas are the open source cloud and data analytics. A few hours ago we’ve learned that the company entered into a licensing agreement with MapR. As part of this agreement, ...
Citrix’s Tal Klein Discusses VDI Strategy
Tal Klein, Director of Technical Marketing at Citrix Systems sat down at theCube with John Furrier and Dave Vellante at Citrix Synergy 2011. He discussed VDI, his role in the company and gave us a perspective to the desktop virtualization market. Klein began by saying that VDI is a component of desktop virtualization, and that ...
Supercell Secures $12M for Social Games of the Future
Supercell, a Finish game developer focused on broad scope browser-based social games, has raised $12 million from Accel Partners. Accel is a major tech industry investment firm, and the round represents significant step forwarded for the start-up, founded in June of last year. Existing investors London Venture Partners and Klaas Kersting, founder of German browser-game ...
SAP is Raising the Revenue Bar with Mobile and Big Data Analytics
Amidst HP’s software transformation under head Leo Apotheker, the former SAP CEO, the German software maker is also adoption a new strategy. Co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe have set the company a goal of achieving $28 billion sales in 2015 from mobile and data analytics offering. SAP made a big push in this ...
Millennial Media Acquires Condaptive Amidst Microsoft Buyout Rumors
Millennial Media, likely the largest remaining independent mobile ad network out there, is bulking up towards its plans for an initial public offering. The company made several moves as a part of this plan, the most recent being the acquisition of Condaptive, a startup that provides location-based mobile marketing solutions. The company analyzes user data ...
IPO Season in Full Swing: From Zynga to Yandex
Right after professional social network LinkedIn doubled its stock on launch day of its IPO, social gaming giant Zynga may be next. Rumor has it that the company currently valuated at $10 billion could file for a public offering with the SEC this week or next week the latest, according to sources. From Reuters: “Zynga ...
