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ActiveState Offers Free Tool for Developers
ActiveState’s Stackato Micro Cloud comes out of beta today, and will remain a free offering to developers. Stackato is the company’s Cloud Foundry-based open platform-as-a-service, which differentiates itself by being vendor agnostic with support for public and private cloud platforms, not to mention a sizable number of programming languages. Micro Cloud lets developers deploy their ...
Security Concerns around Encryption are not Aimed at Big Brother Alone
The worries concerning the need for encryption to keep the Big Brother from spying over the private citizen have been cropping up from time to time rather frequently, but now a twist to the story usual story appeared. A new a report entitled “The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics” hopes to increase ...
VMware’s PaaS Ranks High, Mac Users Catch a Break (for Now)
A couple of interesting updates are coming out of EMC’s virtualization subsidiary VMware. The first highlight is a fresh Evan Data survey which concluded that developers find Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open-source platform-as-a-service offering, to be the best PaaS of its kind overall. Cloud Foundry ranked first among 14 different cloud platform providers, thanks to a ...
HP CEO has a Lot of Work Ahead as Earnings Miss Expectations
Former eBay head Meg Whiteman replaced Leo Apotheker as chief executive officer of HP a couple months ago, and she has a lot of ground to cover now that shareholders are beginning to lose faith in the electronics giant. Hewlett-Packard reported earnings of $1.13 per share on $32.06 billion in revenue for the quarter ended ...
Wyse Expands Mobile Strategy with Latest Buy
Thin client provider Wyse announced it has acquired Trellia for an undisclosed amount. Trellia offers a cloud-based mobile management platform, and its portfolio fits in rather nicely with Wyse’s mobile approach. The company’s Wyse PocketCloud app has gained a lot of popularity across Android and iOS, meaning this latest deal will be leveraged to further ...
EMC Rolls Out Linux Support with Atmos Cloud v1.1
Storage vendor EMC updated the Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform today, extending functionality and support. Atmos Cloud is an add-on application to the on-premise version of the software, allowing users to access the cloud storage management platform from a web-based interface. Version 1.1 is the latest push by EMC to get more involved in the as-a-service ...
Intel Caught in the Middle of HP, Oracle Battle
Intel has found itself in a very central position, so to speak, due to a couple of updates. The first one is the latest development in Hewlett-Packard’s suit against Oracle’s decision to halt support for Intel’s server Itanium chips. Those chips can be found in some of HP’s products. Fresh off the weekend, Oracle’s legal ...
SolidFire Preps for High Performance Cloud Products
Flash array startup SolidFire has released a new perspective on its upcoming, solution expected to launch in Q2 2012, which reveals several interesting highlights. One of them is that SolidFire may prove to be particularly attractive to cloud providers looking to further optimize their resources. SolidFire is focusing on increasing the RoI for its product. ...
Splashtop Tops the Best iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps of the Week
In this week’s list of bets business tablet apps, Splashtop for Android tablets took the number one spot. The enterprise version of the highly popular remote desktop app for both Android and the iPad features extended functionality that really puts an emphasis on the mobile worker, as well as the IT administrator. Android Splashtop Pro ...
Salesforce CEO Sees Growth After Q3 Revenue Boost, Shareholders Disappointed
Cloud-based CRM provider Salesforce reported its earnings for 3Q2011 and delivered its forecast for the next quarter as well. Salesforce’s earnings have proved themselves to be a rather good indicator of the growth the “as-a-service” industry, which has seen some significant boosts lately. The company reported a net loss of 3.76 million, or 3 cents ...