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EMC Leads Storage Software Industry Growth
IDC released its latest “Worldwide Storage Software QView” study, covering the storage software industry’s growth by revenue and other trends in the third quarter of 2011. Companies spent $3.5 billion in this area throughout Q3, a figure that represents a 9.7 percent year-over-year increase and the second highest quarterly sales rate in the past decade. ...
Zayo Borrows $315M to Finance Latest Buy
Zayo Group, a provider of fiber bandwidth and networking services, announced it has raised $315 million in a five-year term loan. This means the money can’t be borrowed again after it has been repaid in five years’ time. RBC Capital Markets, Barclays Capital and SunTrust provided the massive loan, which has been covered by its ...
Riverbed Rolls out RiOS: Integration, Expanded Support
Riverbed Technology rolled out Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) 7.0, the software it uses to power its flagship Steelhead WAN optimization appliance line. The latest release includes a number of additions, including direct integration with the company’s Skipware satellite networking protocol implementation. On top of that, Riverbed integrated its Cascade application-aware NPM solution into Steelhead to ...
Teradici Upgrades ‘PC-over-IP’ Solution
Zero client solutions provider Teradici released PCoIP Firmware Release 3.5.0 and PCoIP Management Console 1.7, the latest version of its user virtualization software with enhanced functionality for the enterprise. The main highlight is version 3.5 of the PCoIP Firmware software, and first improvement is a significant performance boost: “USB 2.0 Support with VMware View Sessions: With ...
Someone Besides Samsung Faces US Ban – HTC Could Miss Out this Holiday
The biggest mobile device manufacturers have been filing patent infringement lawsuits against each other rather consistently for the past couple of years, and a few cases managed to stand out of the crowd these past few months. Among them is the on-going battle between Apple and Samsung. The former claims that the Taiwanese phonemaker infringed ...
SAP’s Latest Buy Fits Well with Mobile, Analytics Strategy
Software maker SAP has acquired human resource management SaaS provider Success Factors for $3.4 billion, a premium of 52 percent over Friday’s closing price and about 10 times more than the company’s annual revenue. Reuters reports that JPMorgan Chase & Co. will provide a loan of one billion euro, or the equivalent of $1.3 billion, ...
Box CEO Gives Insider’s Take on Consumerization of IT
Aaron Levie, the chief executive of enterprise cloud storage provider Box, provided his view on this emerging industry, its consumer market origins, and current state. His firm focuses mainly on corporate clients, powering 82 percent of Fortune 500 companies according to Levie, but the consumer market has not been left astray from his agenda. Late ...
IBM Discusses the Future of Microchips in Three New Studies
IBM’s almost legendary research capacity has been dedicated to a lengthy list of topics that often extending the current perception of IT. Today, company representatives will be attending the International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington to reveal what have been called breakthroughs in the microchip field. Specifically, the three IBM reports that will be released ...
Top Business iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps: Calvetica and Zillow
As far as business apps for the iPad and Android tablets go, Calvetia is the highlight of this week’s list. The app, available for all iOS devices, puts a new twist on a simple and oft-used concept on calendaring by blending in a number of unique elements, with an eye for graphic quality as well. ...
Electronic Arts Throws Down the Social Gaming Gauntlet with KlickNation Aquisition
Social gaming is among the fastest growing segments in this particular industry, and Electronics Arts has long ago become a contender to throne – or rather, Zynga’s throne. The company challenged Farmville’s social element back at the E3 convention and has made a couple of big acquisitions, including the $750 million buyout of PopCap this ...