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CommVault Stays Stag as HP, Others Build Storage Strategy
Enterprise storage software maker CommVault won’t follow the same track its competitors did, and will continue to run solo for the time being, according to a statement by Bob Hammer, the chief executive, chairman and president of the company. “Whatever happens on the M&A side, our mission is clear — create shareholder value on our ...
Xeround Going Freemium with Complimentary Dev Version
MySQL cloud database maker Xeround is going freemium, sort of: the company introduced Xeround FREE, a very limited yet considerably more accessible edition of its solution that enables prospective customers to test-run the service. It’s available for Amazon EC2 and as a Heroku add-on at first. Cloud companies such as Amazon have been offering a ...
Nicira’s Fresh Take on Network-as-a-Service Not Quite Ready to Rival Cisco
Nicira is a startup that freshly existed in stealth, but has already managed to gain an impressive customer base and quite a bit of funding thanks to its new angle on virtualization. Stanford‘s Martin Casado and Nick McKeown, together with Scott Shenker from the University of California, took virtualization to the next level by co-founding ...
Clustrix Gains Traction in NewSQL, Offers New Product
Clustrix is one many NoSQL startups gaining traction in today’s market. This ecosystem has seen a lot of innovation from smaller players (or at least ones overshadowed by the size of structured data behemoth Oracle), and Clustrix is among them. The company’s distributed relational database system differentiates itself by offering the capacity to easily scale, and ...
Apkudo Launches New Android Analytics, MetroPCS First On Board
Apkudo, a company that offers developers solutions to amend the fragmentation of the Android ecosystem and run their apps on multiple devices without the need to rewrite, announced a new offering today. Apkudo Device Analytics is designed forAndroid OEMs and carriers that also seek to solve these kinds of compliance issues, and is comprised of ...
EMC’s Project Lightning Provokes Fusion-io Reaction
There have been a number of different speculations about Project Lightning ever since EMC’s most senior executives hinted towards an upcoming offering at last year’s EMC World. Wikibon’s Dave Vellante dug into the history of the project, its background and its maker’s vision (among other things) in a blog post that went out on February ...
Symantec Launches New Versions of Backup Solutions
Symantec has released the latest versions of two of its enterprises backup and recovery offerings, which the company said took two years of 1,600 developers’ time to upgrade. Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup v7.5 will ship with several major improvements, first and foremost separate editions of the two referred to as V-Ray. The new branding ...
Microsoft on Mobile: Upcoming Launch, Shaky Competitor Relations
Software giant Microsoft is one of the many companies heavily invested the PC industry that have decided to apply the phrase “if you can’t beat them, join them” to their approach with the mobile market. The latest development is news that it will be bring the Dynamics CRM platform to mobile sometime in the second quarter ...
LBC Startup Mobeam Raises an Extra $1.5M
An up and coming company named Mobeam announced that it has received $1.5 million in funding from the Korea-based DFJ Athena VC fund and Ben DuPont. DuPont participated in Mobeam’s first $4.9 million round of funding, and has been serving as the chairman of the board ever since. The startup managed to trigger investors’ curiosity ...
HTC Has High Hopes for MWC as Earnings Falter
Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC reported its far-from-optimistic fiscal forecast for Q1, during which the steady decline in revenue and share price it has seen throughout last year will likely persist. HTC expects to see something in the range of $2.20-2.37 billion in sales next quarter, below analysts’ average approximation of $3.04 billion. That’s the equivalent ...