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Tintri Launches Latest Storage Appliance: More Capacity, Automation
Tintri, a maker of storage solutions specifically designed for virtualized environments, announced the new Tintri VMstore T540 VM-aware storage appliance at the VMware Europe conference, held this week in Copenhagen. The T540 features several enhancements, mainly increased capacity and a couple of what the company called industry-first capabilities in an emailed press release. The new ...
Bit.ly’s Chief Data Scientist Downplays Twitter Changes
Hilary Mason, the chief data scientist at Bit.ly, responded to a tweeted update sent out by Twitter today that reads “We’re about to start wrapping all URLs regardless of their length with the t.co URL wrapper.” Twitter users account for a huge portion of the visits link shorteners such as Bit.ly get every month, and ...
Jaspersoft and Red Hat Offer Cloud Data-to-Dashboard Solution
BI software maker Jaspersoft partnered with open-source solutions maker and Linux distributor Red Hat to deliver a virtualized version of its offering. The joint effort bundles the JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform and Jaspersoft’s BI Suite, resulting in a cloud-based open-source BI and analytics software. “Working with Red Hat, we’re bringing a compelling solution to ...
Competitors HP and Cisco Come Together over Latest Offering
Hewlett-Packard and Cisco have become fierce competitors after the latter introduced its Unified Computing System (UCS) offering, which includes Cisco-made blade servers in 2009. In 2010 HP acquired 3Com and became the second largest player in the networking industry; Cisco’s home turf. Despite this strained relationship, the companies acknowledged that it would be in their ...
RSA and McAfee for a Single Security Offering
RSA, the security division of storage giant EMC and McAfee (recently acquired by Intel) announced the latest product of a technology partnership, which was announced earlier this year. The companies now offer a joint solution that bundles the McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform with RSA Archer eGRC Platform and RSA Archer Enterprise Management. RSA Archer is a web-based tool ...
VMware Expands Partner Base before Earnings Call
EMC virtualization subsidiary VMware is scheduled to have its Q3 earnings call today, and analysts are expecting the company to report growth consistent with the past four quarters. Also today the company released a couple of partnership announcements, just a few hours before it’s set to reveal its earnings. The average profit forecast is 33 ...
ActiveState Joins OpenStack, Extends Features and Support
ActiveState, the developer of the private PaaS solution Stackato, has joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA). This is a big milestone for the company, which puts a special emphasis on keeping its platform infrastructure-agnostic. Stackato is an implementation of VMware’s open-source Cloud Foundry PaaS that was launched in September. The so-called private PaaS offering includes, ...
Dell Plans for Mobile Workers, an App Ecosystem and Virtualization
Our own Alex Williams attended Dell World 2011, which focused on several things including Dell’s tablet strategy, Windows 8, the developer ecosystem that powers Dell’s technology and virtualization, to name a few. On the mobile side of things, it seems Dell is no longer interested in using Android to power its upcoming enterprise tablets, and ...
Facebook for iPad Tops Business Tablet Apps of the Week
This week brought several important enterprise updates to the mobile space, especially where Android is concerned. It’s growing support that the enterprise sector is a ready and willing mobile audience, always in need of business-ready apps. There were a couple notable new app launches for the business tablet user, among them the celebrated launch of ...
This Week in Cloud: Storage Key for Enterprise and Consumers
The past week in the cloud featured a lot of storage updates, both in the enterprise and consumer segments. The first highlight is a partnership between tech veteran IBM and storage startup Nirvanix to help expand IBM SmartCloud Enterprise storage services. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier explained how the deal is a win-win for the two companies: ...