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IBM Builds Out Cloud Analytics with Latest Buy
IBM is expanding its Smart Cloud commerce initiative – and its analytics portfolio as a whole by doing a lot of M&E. Yesterday the company announced that it has acquired Emptoris for an undisclosed amount. The Burlington, Mass-based Emptoris provides cloud and on-premise software that helps companies understand how they performance in terms of supply ...
HP Cuts Execs’ Exit Packs
HP’s shareholders have expressed concern about the compensation the two previous CEOs received after leaving the company. Leo Apotheker received 156, 000 shares of restricted stock worth about $3.6 million at the time, and prior to that Mark Hurd received much more– a decision that in turn resulted in several on-going investor lawsuits. This week ...
Storage Wars Part 3: How is HP Doing with 3PAR?
The continuation of Wikibon’s Storage Wars series (see here for Part 1 and Part 2) looks into how Hewlett-Packard managed to integrate 3PAR into the company in relation to today’s storage market. Overall, they’ve done a pretty good job. Wikibon covered six areas where it’s essential for HP to invest in to maintain its current position ...
Microsoft Takes its Smartphone Goals to the Outer Limit
Microsoft has gotten itself head-deep into the mobile industry with Windows Phone 7, and perhaps to a broader extent with the upcoming Windows 8 due sometime in 2012. In addition the company made some of its apps available for Android and iOS, a tactic that GigaOM’s James Kendrick believes extends beyond plain competiveness. Kendrick’s theory ...
Broadcom Expands to Computer Accessories, Sees Growth in Mobile
Broadcom is anxious to catch up with Cisco and Juniper Networks in certain areas, which own the vast majority of market share in the networking universe. The company is seeing steady growth, and its latest product is bound to attract some addition attention in the consumer space. The newly announced Broadcom BCM20730 65 nm low-power ...
EMC’s Got a Hybrid Analytics Platform, Too
EMC is now the second big vendor that has an analytics platform for analyzing both structured and unstructured data, following a Thursday announcement. The upcoming Unified Analytics Platform is a combination of technology from Greenplum and MapR, a Hadoop distributor that already has a strong partnership with EMC. UAP combines the EMC Greenplum database with ...
Cloud Foundry Gets .NET Support Thanks to Tier 3
Public cloud provider Tier 3 released Iron Foundry, an open distribution of VMware’s Cloud Foundry. The solution makes the latest available to the very large demographic of developers working on .NET applications, adding one of the more widely used frameworks to the existing list of supported platforms. Among those are Spring for Java, Nod.js, Sinatra ...
HotLink Boosts VMware for Virtualized Deployments
HotLink announced version 1.2 of its SuperVISOR software, a solution that enables customers to use VMware vCenter in order to manage cross-platform virtualized environments. It supports Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The latest release features three notable enhancements. SuperVISOR has been extended to the networking layer for one thing; allowing users to provision ...
Big Data Predicts the Weather: Green Tech Goes Open Source
Pattern Energy Group, which is currently working on setting up the largest wind energy project in Chile, is using Gluster software to power its in-house weather analytics. Red Hat acquired Gluster a few months ago and now offers the firm’s open storage management platform under the Red Hat Storage title. Pattern relies on big data ...
Storage Wars Pt. 2: Converged Infrastructure Requires a Strong Sales Channel
The second Storage Wars post by Wikibon looks into the industry’s reaction to VCE, the joint effort that provides the Vblock converged infrastructure solution –it’s a combination of EMC, Cisco and VMware technology. Vblock is leading the charge with a capacity to scale up to tens of thousands of VMs, and other vendors are closing ...