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NetApp Follows VMware-Shavlik Deal with Microsoft Partnership
VMware and NetApp made a couple of milestone announcements, starting with the former’s acquisition of Shavlik. VMware said in a press release it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the develop of SaaS IT management solutions designed for SMBs. The two companies have a history of cooperation, and VMware’s acquisition of Shavlik probably ...
Oracle Exadata gets a Boost as Competition with HANA Intensifies
Oracle has entered into an agreement with NetSuite, a maker of cloud-based financials and ERP software, to provide it with Exadata servers to support its cloud. NetSuite has become an Oracle customer to increase performance and deliver a number of other additions it hasn’t before to its customers, as the company steadily increases its own ...
Hadoop-Based Datameer Raises $9 Million
Hadoop has been in the spotlight for the last few weeks, thanks to a number of launches and developments we’ll get to later. Today the news comes from Datameer, a startup that offers a big data analytics solutions based on Apache Hadoop. Datameer, founded by Ajay Anad, former Director of Product Management for Hadoop and ...
HP Takes Milestone Leap with HANA, Financial Offering
Hewlett-Packard made a very significant announcement about two developments: it has launched a brand new financing offering, and its HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and HP ProLiant DL580 G7 systems are now among the first of its servers to be certified for running SAP HANA. SAP HANA on HP Converged Infrastructure, the two companies’ new big ...
How Secure is the Personal Cloud? Apple, Dropbox #FAIL
Some pretty major security concerns have been circling the cloud these past couple of months, and now Dropbox also got caught up in the loop. Christopher Soghoian, a researcher at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, claims that Dropbox has some serious privacy issues concerning user data, and asked the FCC to ...
This Week in the Cloud: Open Source Trends from Major Players
The cloud and big data are on a collision course, and that’s exactly what EMC World 2011 was all about. Open-source is a particularly hot topic these days, and alongside all the Greenplum developments and Hadoop launches, Rackspace has been benefiting from this accelerating market. The managed hosting provider has a very firm position in ...
Bento for iPad, Google Docs Primed for Business Tablets
Tablet apps have invaded just about every area possible, including the office. Businesses users represent a growing aspect of the mobile market, and as such, more and more developers begin to focus on the demand spurred from their direction. This week, SiliconANGLE put together a list of the top 5 workspace and productivity apps to ...
IBM Drives Big Data Trend with Tape Storage
At the same time EMC is holding its annual EMC 2011 conference in Las Vegas titled “Cloud Meets Big Data,” IBM made its own move in this space. This week, the veteran tech giant launched a brand new big data storage offering suit. IBM announced a whole line-up of tape-storage backup, enhanced archiving and deduplication ...
Jeremy Burton, CMO at EMC Talks Greenplum, Data Scientists
EMC’s CMO Jeremy Burton sat down at The Cube in the heart of EMC World 2011 to talk about his company, the cloud, big data and what it all has to do with new media and marketing.”We wanna make the message simple, we wanna make it memorable and we wanna make it stick” he said, ...
Cisco is Expanding, but Wall Street Exceptions are Low
Cisco has not been doing well in the last four quarters, throughout which its stock dived by over 30 percent. The networking giant is now busy doing some damage control and recovery, starting with CEO John Chambers recently eliminating the slow, council-based decision-making system that seems to have been holding the company back. Nevertheless, while ...
