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OpenLogic’s Q4 Revenue Surged 45% – Other Milestones
Open PaaS provider OpenLogic reflects on its performance throughout 2011 in newly published report, which reveals a few trends that extend beyond the company alone. The company has seen revenue surge by 45 percent in Q4 last year, the most profitable quarter to date, and one that sealed what was a successful fiscal year overall. ...
Arista Networks’ Jayshree Ullal Talks Node.js, Networking in the Cloud
Jayshree Ullal arrived at the recent Node Summit representing Arista Networks and stopped by theCube during one of the openings in her busy schedule. The networking exec discussed Node.js, and how it fits in with the overall scheme of networking in the cloud and enterprise IT. JavaScript-based programming language Node.js puts the emphasis on I/O ...
GigaOM Buys paidContent in Blogosphere Acquisition
Tech news and editorial publication GigaOm, which also runs the Structure big data conference in New York that theCube has attended in the past, announced that it has acquired paidContent from Guardian News & Media. According to a newly published press release and article, the paidContent staff will remain on payroll, and together with GigaOm’s ...
New SAP Products Coincide with Oracle Demands for IP Case
Software maker SAP has announced a major boost to HANA, its in-memory analytics platform that has now been tailored to suit the SME market, thanks to two newly announced offerings. The first addition to the company’s analytics portfolio is SAP HANA for SAP Business One, a smaller application that’s based on the solution, designed for ...
Google Loses in the Latest Development from the Oracle Java Case
In Oracle’s legal department, the name of the game is copyright infringement. The software giant sued SAP – which, at least for the time being, did not get it the multi-billion dollar sum it has hoped to win – and the Google case isn’t going anywhere either. This particular case against Google involves a claim that ...
Cisco’s Craig Huitema Has High Expectations of the Cloud being a Networking Driver
Craig Huitema, director of data center solutions at networking giant Cisco, discussed his take on the cloud and how it’s driving the evolution of the networking market, both in the datacenter and the average household, during an interview. The outline of his vision is that the consumer space is pushing the enterprise forward towards this ...
CommVault Stays Stag as HP, Others Build Storage Strategy
Enterprise storage software maker CommVault won’t follow the same track its competitors did, and will continue to run solo for the time being, according to a statement by Bob Hammer, the chief executive, chairman and president of the company. “Whatever happens on the M&A side, our mission is clear — create shareholder value on our ...
Xeround Going Freemium with Complimentary Dev Version
MySQL cloud database maker Xeround is going freemium, sort of: the company introduced Xeround FREE, a very limited yet considerably more accessible edition of its solution that enables prospective customers to test-run the service. It’s available for Amazon EC2 and as a Heroku add-on at first. Cloud companies such as Amazon have been offering a ...
Nicira’s Fresh Take on Network-as-a-Service Not Quite Ready to Rival Cisco
Nicira is a startup that freshly existed in stealth, but has already managed to gain an impressive customer base and quite a bit of funding thanks to its new angle on virtualization. Stanford‘s Martin Casado and Nick McKeown, together with Scott Shenker from the University of California, took virtualization to the next level by co-founding ...
Clustrix Gains Traction in NewSQL, Offers New Product
Clustrix is one many NoSQL startups gaining traction in today’s market. This ecosystem has seen a lot of innovation from smaller players (or at least ones overshadowed by the size of structured data behemoth Oracle), and Clustrix is among them. The company’s distributed relational database system differentiates itself by offering the capacity to easily scale, and ...