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This Week in Cloud: EMC’s Project Lightning, Open-Source Trends
This week, the most noteworthy updates in the cloud came from three areas: storage, cloud services, and the open-source community. Unquestionably the biggest news this week is the Project Lightning announcement from EMC. The development of a mystery product has been going on since 2010, and this week we’ve learned that it’s in fact an ...
Druva’s First Major Update Since Funding Brings Performance Boost
Druva, a provider of cloud-based and on premise data protection software specifically designed for company-issued laptops, revealed a milestone upgrade to its portfolio that adds several new advantages. The company claims that its app-aware dedupe technology can shrink down associated overheads to just 10 percent, while achieving a significant performance boost. Druva said that Security ...
Oracle Makes its Own Success Factors Acquistion: Taleo
Database giant Oracle has been taking jabs at competing business software maker SAP, and the exchange of blows has been going on for quite some time now too. The rivalry encompasses a still on-going copyright infringement suit, and a battle in the analytics market where somewhat ironically Oracle has gone as far as teaming up ...
Where Does Node.js fit Into the Cloud and Enterprise Market? [Video]
James Urquhart of EnStratus shared his industry insight with SiliconANGLE’s Alex Williams during a 30-minute interview in which the two managed to cover a number of topics, from the highlights of Node Summit to the cloud and how the overall market is doing today in light of all the disruptive new trends. Urquhart started off ...
Node.js “Still Needs to Ripen” says Red Monk [Video]
John Sheehan of Twilo and Steven O’Grady of Red Monk sat down with ServicesANGLE editor Alex Williams to discuss Node.js, the buzzed-about programming language that landed its own convention late last month. In response to a question from Williams, Sheehan said that he believes Node.js is technically mature, but that the ecosystem still has some ...
Cisco’s Q2 Call Arrives with Optimism, Ecofriendliness
Networking giant Cisco had a bit of tough time in 2011, but it seems to have pushed through only to make a full recovery. The price paid was substantial, and over 10,000 workers have been laid off as a part of what has been referred to as a restructuring process, now almost complete, according to CEO ...
OpenLogic’s Q4 Revenue Surged 45% – Other Milestones
Open PaaS provider OpenLogic reflects on its performance throughout 2011 in newly published report, which reveals a few trends that extend beyond the company alone. The company has seen revenue surge by 45 percent in Q4 last year, the most profitable quarter to date, and one that sealed what was a successful fiscal year overall. ...
Arista Networks’ Jayshree Ullal Talks Node.js, Networking in the Cloud
Jayshree Ullal arrived at the recent Node Summit representing Arista Networks and stopped by theCube during one of the openings in her busy schedule. The networking exec discussed Node.js, and how it fits in with the overall scheme of networking in the cloud and enterprise IT. JavaScript-based programming language Node.js puts the emphasis on I/O ...
GigaOM Buys paidContent in Blogosphere Acquisition
Tech news and editorial publication GigaOm, which also runs the Structure big data conference in New York that theCube has attended in the past, announced that it has acquired paidContent from Guardian News & Media. According to a newly published press release and article, the paidContent staff will remain on payroll, and together with GigaOm’s ...
New SAP Products Coincide with Oracle Demands for IP Case
Software maker SAP has announced a major boost to HANA, its in-memory analytics platform that has now been tailored to suit the SME market, thanks to two newly announced offerings. The first addition to the company’s analytics portfolio is SAP HANA for SAP Business One, a smaller application that’s based on the solution, designed for ...