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Microsoft Patches OS, Fleshes Out Cloud
Microsoft has been busy this month with a wide variety of deals ranging from patching Windows, to closing an $8.5 billion acquisition. The October Patch Tuesday fixes include several significant ones, including partially a rumored update to the Malicious Software Removal Tool which will prevent Microsoft Security Essentials and Forefront from flagging Chrome as malicious ...
Microsoft Anxious for Skype Integration as Acquisition Finalizes
Microsoft closed off the acquisition of VoIP service provider Skype for a massive $8.5 million – the software maker’s biggest acquisition to date. Microsoft got the green light from the FTC in June, and now the European Commission also gave its approval. Skype head Tony Bates will become president of the Microsoft Skype Division, and will ...
RIM’s $100M Buy amidst Takeover Talk
Canadian phonemaker RIM can be compared to Nokia, which failed to adapt to the market trends in time and consequently got itself in some financial turmoil. The former however is still in better shape in some regards, and even as the rumor mull churns that it may become an acquisition itself, RIM buys out NewBay for ...
VMware Pairs Virtualization with Mobile Growth
In addition extending its virtualization ecosystem on the enterprise side, EMC subsidiary VMware is also working on developing a solid end-user portfolio centralized on mobile. Joe Baguley, VMware’s Chief Cloud Technologist, discussed this approach and his outlook during his opening keynote of day 2 of the NetEvents 2011 EMEA Summit entitled “IT’s All In The ...
Pocket Informant Tops Week’s Best iPad, Android Tablet Apps for Business
This week in business apps for the iPad and Android tablets, the app that took the top spot in our list is Pocket Informant for iPad. The award-winning app integrates calendaring and note-taking tools within one streamlined UI. It comes with a long list of features, functionalities and supports, and offers a rich user experience ...
This Week in the Cloud: Oracle-Salesforce Drama and More
This week featured the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 tech conference, and a host of other cloud industry updates. Some of them directly relate to the enterprise IT giant, with the public cloud being one of the main highlights. Both Hewlett-Packard and Google announced new service offerings. Starting off with HP, the company revealed earlier this week ...
FlashSoft Update Spree Continues with 2.0 Release
FlashSoft announced the second and latest release of its FlashSoft SE software, which lets companies use SSD or flash PCIe to supplement cache in the server. This elimantes IO latency according to the company, which posted some impressive performance boosts in the recent past. FlashSoft SE 2.0 works with Linux, which is the native app ...
The Good and Bad of EMC-Oracle Relationship
Jason Kotsafis, a director at EMC, dropped by theCube with Dave Vellante on day three of the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 conference to elaborate on how EMC and Oracle position themselves with and against one another in the enterprise market. Kotsafis, who is attending the 15th consecutive OpenWorld gathering on the behalf of EMC, pointed out ...
Openworld a Contrast by Name, says EMC: Oracle’s “Not Open”
David Nicholson, the senior director of director Intel Global Alliances for EMC, stopped by theCube with Dave Vellante at Oracle OpenWorld 2011. He talked cloud and open source, as well as not so open IT ecosystems. He started by saying that Oracle OpenWorld presents a contrast derived from the title, considering that the company is not ...
HP Delivers SAP Applications from the Cloud
Hardware maker Hewlett-Packard and business software developer SAP announced an interesting partnership today. Customers of HP Enterprise Services will now have access to SAP applications hosted remotely on the company’s datacenters. “HP bundles the necessary infrastructure, platform and application services in an as-a-service model, enabling clients to pay on a per-seat basis for what they need ...