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IBM Snatches up Curam as a part of Aggressive Analytics M&A Strategy
IBM embarked on a series of major software acquisitions recently in order to strengthen its portfolio across a wide range of sectors and industries. Big Blue pursued the analytics angle for the most part with its previous buys, though the latest one is an exception. Curam a company that makes social enterprise management software designed ...
Broadcom Wins Emulex Patent Suit
After Emulex rejected Broadcom’s two-month effort to acquire the company in July 2009, it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the latter that has finally been closed, Bloomberg reported. U.S. District Judge James Selna of Santa Ana, Calif. denied a motion by Emulex for summary judgment on the verdict. The judge found that three Emulex ...
Fusion-io, SolidFire Bulk Up Boards of Directors
Both Fusion-io and SolidFire have expanded their board of directors this week with the additions of industry veterans who will hopefully help bolster growth. Shane Robison, former executive vice president and CTO for Hewlett-Packard, is joining the Fusion-io board’s Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. He worked at HP since 2002 up until ...
Red Hat Reports Strong Q3 Income, Low Revenue as Partners Build Up Confidence
Linux distributor Red Hat reported its earnings for the third quarter of 2011. Sales grew by 23 percent since the third quarter of 2010 to $290 million, and subscriptions, which accounted for $246.5 million, are up 24 percent from last year. This only barely met analysts’ expectations and led to an 8 percent drop in ...
Permabit Gets 4 More Patents for Data Protection, Excited for 2012
Permabit, the company that produces the record-breaking Albireo OEM embedded deduplication software, announced it has been awarded with four new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office. That adds up to a total of eight new patents this year – we covered the first four back in June – and 27 since the company ...
Hewlett-Packard’s making the Most out of its Security Portfolio
HP, like many tech companies, has its hands in a few pots as the industry shifts to a broadened space spanning mobility and the enterprise. We’ve been covering Hewlett-Packard’s strategy to tap the growing and modestly tapped enterprise security market for quite some time. A new note by ISI analyst Brian Marshall further validated the approach ...
VMware Launches View for Mac, Linux, Kindle Fire
VMware launched VMware View Clients for three new platforms today, noticeably expanding the market for its desktop virtualization software. The clients, currently available as technology previews support Mac, Linux and Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The Linux version can already be downloaded via the Ubuntu Software Center and VMware said the Kindle Fire version will soon be available ...
YouSendIt and Other Top iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps
YouSendIt launched its iPad and Android app this week, making its cloud-based sharing and collaboration features available to tablet, along with other platforms. it’s a big step for YouSendIt as it expands its services as well as its business model. For many companies leveraging cloud storage these days, mobile’s been a great avenue to access ...
This Week in Cloud: PaaS, Virtualization Leading Trends
This week platform services were a major highlight, thanks to a few interesting developments surfaced from a number of the more high-ranking cloud vendors. For starters, Microsoft upgraded Azure with the addition of Node.js support, and rolled out the early product of a previously announced partnership with HortonWorks. Select developers have access to a preview of ...
Xeround Changes Agenda after $9M in Funding
Xeround is realizing its shift of focus from database management to offering public cloud database services now that it has raised $9 million in its third round of funding. Existing investors Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership as well as Benchmark Capital and Giza Venture Capital contributed to the round. Xeround’s transition was first conceived two years ...