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OpenLogic Rolls Out Open PaaS to the Public
OpenLogic finally launched CloudSwing, a so-called open platform-as-a-service the company first announced back in August. CloudSwing seeks to differentiate itself from other solutions by being completely vendor-agnostic and providing a lot of customization options: the offering leverages lot open-source software, enabling customers to completely customize stacks and add third party code. CloudSwing includes stack support ...
Citrix Buzz: New NetScaler amongst Fresh Offerings
Virtualization solutions maker Citrix had a few major announcements this week, and here are some of the highlights we haven’t covered already. The company launched a bunch of new offerings that represent a significant extension to its existing portfolio, and among them is the NetScaler CloudConnectors delivery fabric. The first solution that’s included in the suite ...
Akamai Refreshes Top Level Execs with New CIO, Head of R&D
Web acceleration services provider Akamai announced a couple of significant hires this week: the company appointed Kumud Kalia as its chief information officer, and Rick McConnell as Executive Vice President of Products and Development. Both of them will report directly to company CEO and president Paul Sagan. Kalia joins Akamai from Direct Energy, where he ...
Citrix Integrates with AppSense after Partner Acquisition
AppSense announced today that it has integrated its User Virtualization Platform with the Citrix Cortex Cloud Control Panel, now known as the CloudPortal Services Manager. The goal is to deliver customers a better interface to manage their VDI infrastructure, with an expanded set of options that include hardware and customer provisioning, identity management, and other ...
Fusion-io Hires New Product Development Head
Storage startup Fusion-io apparently hired IT veteran Woody Hutsell as its new director of product management. Hutsell comes to Fusion-io from data storage firm Vion, where he served as an application acceleration practice director and an accounting executive since October 2010. Prior to that Hutsell worked at Texas Memory Systems for about a decade, in ...
China Takes the Heat for Latest Japanese Government, Defense Cyberattacks
Recently an unusually large number of hacking incidents were unrecovered by seemingly bigger and bigger targets: companies, defense contractors, and now the Japanese government. This time however the attack has been traced back to a server in China, the country that is supposedly involved in a few of the other high-profile attacks we’ve been hearing ...
AppSense’s Latest Partner Program Builds VDI Ecosystem
VDI firm AppSense announced its latest partner program, dubbed the AppSense Affinity Partner Program, which is designed for partners within the company’s ecosystem that are working on user virtualization initiatives powered by AppSense technology. David Roussain, vice president of strategic alliances and systems integrators at AppSense, said the driver behind this new program is the ...
Fusion-io Shares Surge as Barron’s Sees Positive Outlook
Steve Wozniak’s startup Fusion-io has stirred quite a fuss in the IT world with its flash-based storage acceleration technology, and the same can be said of the stock market. The company had a very successful IPO earlier this year, and it has just been selected as the stock of the year by Barron’s. Fusion topped ...
Juniper, HTC Eye Asian Markets Despite Shrinking Profits
Kevin Johnson, the chief executive of networking solutions maker Juniper Networks, revealed that the firm is considering some acquisitions in Asia this year to beef up its mobile and cloud portfolio. “Certainly if there are interesting opportunities that have strategic alignment with what we are doing and make economic sense, we’re very open to [mergers and ...
Nutanix Closes $25 Million Round from Khosla Ventures
Nutanix closed off a $25 million funding round led by investment firm Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital. The datacenter virtualization startup is one of the first to be funded by Khosla Ventures IV, the VC’s new $1.05 billion fund specifically focused on investing in early stage IT ...