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EMC and Cisco Launch Cloud Center in Bangalore
EMC and Cisco have reportedly launched their Cloud Experience Centres’ in Bangalore, India. The EMC Centre of Excellence and at the Cisco Globalization Centre East are located in a twin facility, and are designed to accelerate research and let Indian customers test drive cloud infrastructure solutions offered by the two companies. “Manoj Chugh, President of ...
FalconStor Adds Two New VPs from HP and Symantec
Cloud storage solutions provider FalconStor announced it has made some staffing changes, and hired two new VPs. The company has hired former Hewlett-Packard exec Donna Williams to serve as vice president of worldwide technical support, and former Symantec director Abbas Meghjee as vice president of North America. Williams served as the director of software support ...
3PAR Proving its Worth at HP in Entertainment Sector
Hewlett-Packard has been making serious pushes to expand its storage business. Both former CEO Mark Hurd and current chief executive Leo Apotheker put an emphasis on staying competitive in this market via two main approaches: R&D and acquisitions. When looking at HP’s research and development spenditure, it has spent an average of 3 percent of ...
SAP Investing in Online Ads, Cloud & Mobility
German business software maker SAP had two significant announcements today, starting with an investment in OpenX. SAP’s venture arm is leading a $20 million funding round in the online exchange and server service. New investors AOL Ventures, Mitsui Global Investment and Presidio Ventures also participated in the series D round, in addition to existing investors ...
Dell and HP Crank Up Competition with Memorial Day Deals
Long time competitors Dell and Hewlett-Packard are celebrating Memorial Day 2011 today with a long line-up of discounts. Dell will only offer its discounts today while HP is extending its own to an extra day, and as it seems, competition over consumer’s hearts and pockets is livelier than ever. “We do not want to go ...
Cisco Reputation, Stock Take Hit while Blade Server Business Expands
Networking giant Cisco is currently a work in progress, going through an internal restructuring led by CEO John Chambers. This road however seems to be a bit bumpy, and an analysis of network scans by Dimension Data for its 2011 Network Barometer Report will definitely not have a positive effect on Cisco’s efforts. This study discovered ...
Penultimate Leads Top Business Apps for iPad, Android Tablets
The tablet and app craze are catching up with business – this one of the main topics addressed at this week’s Citrix Synergy 2011 conference. Even though the consumer level is getting t6he most attention, developers are also turning their eye towards the business segment. And, this week too, we’ve rounded up five of the ...
This Week in the Cloud: Fusion-io, PaaS and Facebook
This past week spurred quite a bit of updates from some of the biggest players in the cloud, including Citrix. The virtualization vendor held its annual Citrix Synergy7 conference this week, where it has announced a partnership with Amazon to optimize some of its main services for for Windows and XenServer customers. Further, Citrix also ...
Citrix Synergy 2011 Recap: Mobile, Open Cloud & VDI
The Citrix Synergy 2011 this week spurred a lot of developments for Citrix, and focused on three major areas: desktop virtualization (VDI), the company’s core business, as well as mobile and the open cloud – two areas the company’s demonstrated a lot of interest in lately. The jam-packed conference kicked off by a demo of ...
The Oracle-Google Saga: a Never-ending Story
The Oracle vs. Google court battle took yet another turn this week when the federal judge overseeing the Java patent litigation said the trial may have to be delayed until authorities finish reexamining some of Oracle’s patents. This process may turn out to be a pretty lengthy one, considering the time frames usually involved: “Oracle ...
