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Splunk Tops this Week’s Best iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps
BI software maker Splunk released version 4.3 of its software this week, introducing a more straight-forward interface designed for the direct use of the business user. The latest edition features several improvements, notably the fact the company shifted from using flash to HTML5, enabling user access on-the-go from iOS devices. iPad Splunk The launch of ...
This Week in Cloud: Open-Source, Services and Security
This week three areas of the larger cloud industry grabbed headlines, thanks to a handful of major updates from vendors. First, the OpenStack ecosystem reached a new milestone with the release of the first commercial edition into general availability. Piston Cloud fused Rackspace’s open cloud OS with proprietary components it developed in-house, including a custom ...
IT Industry Leaders Report Optimistic Q4 for the Most Part
IBM, Microsoft, Intel and Google reported their earnings throughout the fourth financial quarter of 2011 this week. All four have seen growth, but only three managed to meet and exceed analysts’ expectations. IBM’s net earnings stood up to the challenge, at $5.5 billion on revenue of $29.5 billion. Sales were up two percent this quarter, ...
Dell Gets Tangled Up with Insider Trade Charges
Sandeep Goyal, a former Dell employee who later left for a job at Neuberger Berman’s mutual fund business, is in the center of one of the biggest insider trading cases to surfaced recently. The New York Times broke the story, reporting that Goyal has been receiving information from an unnamed source, presumably a high ranking ...
SAP Acquires Datango to Invigorate Enterprise Training Portfolio
SAP acquired Datango for an undisclosed amount, a maker of IT training solutions that the business software maker hopes will manage to stand out in a sleepy market. Datango certainly has potential, a claim that SAP and several pundits are backing up. The company’s offerings provide a development environment for the creation of training material, ...
Juniper Networks Revamps Partner Program
Networking gear maker Juniper is still going at it, and had a pretty significant announcement at its first ever Global Partner Conference held this week at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. It relaunched its line-up of partner initiatives under a new a new title, Partner Advantage, which features three separate and enhanced solution ...
4 Ways Your Outsourcing Partner is Screwing You: Infographic
Software development outsourcer Symphony released a well-crafted infographic that outlines the company’s high priority factors in outsourcing projects today – or as the sketch’s title puts it, “4 Ways Your Outsourcing Partner is Screwing with You.” Bulletin number one is outcome-based contracts, which at present account for less than eight percent of all the agreements ...
VMware Expectations High for Growth in Q4
Virtualization titan VMware will be holding its earnings call to report the fiscal results of its fourth quarter, and the general consensus on Wall Street seems to be on the optimistic side. The expectation is that the company will report profit of 43 cents a share, a substantial increase from the 24 cents per share ...
Piston Cloud Launches OpenStack Distro
Piston Cloud has rolled out Piston Enterprise OS, or pentOS, into general availability today. The cloud platform is a refined, commercial version of OpenStack – the open-source cloud OS initiative originally kicked off by Rackspace and NASA. PentOS offers a number of advantages to enterprises with private cloud deployments; first and foremost the fact that it’s ...
Big Data Fund Sees Promise in Real-Time Backup
Code 42 confirmed in a blog post that announced the startup has raised $52.5 million in venture capital from Accel and Split Rock Partners. This investment represents the first for Accel’s $100 million big data fund, a very buzzed-about initiative that further validated the real potential of the unstructured analytics industry. Startup Code 42 offers a software ...