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Jaspersoft and IBM Integrate Big Data Offerings around Hadoop
BI software maker Jaspersoft and IBM plan on offering a joint analytics solution to customers that are looking to extract value from their data. IBM will integrate its InfoSphere Big Insights software with Jaspersoft’s business intelligence suite as a part of an Application Specific Licensing Agreement, which will enable the latter to license the Big ...
SAP Adds New Exec to Boost Big Data, Cloud Strategy
Business software maker SAP has embarked on several ventures to strengthen its cloud and big data portfolio, and the company is pushing through with this approach. Alongside a couple of new developments in recent weeks, SAP has appointed Michael Naimoli as the new head of its Life Sciences Industry Business Unit. Naimoli is anything but new to ...
EMC Sees Record Earnings, Gives Funds to Charity
Storage solutions vendor EMC reported positive results for the third quarter of 2011. The company showed 18 percent year-over-year revenue growth reaching $4.98 billion, 54 percent ($2.7 billion) of which came from U.S. sales. Its virtualization arm VMware saw 32 percent growth-year-over year, closely followed by EMC’s mid-tier storage products at 28 percent. The company’s ...
Oracle Targets Salesforce with Latest Buy: RightNow for $1.5 Billion
Oracle has entered into an agreement to acquire RightNow, a customer service software maker that’s used by over 2,000 clients, according to the company. Its flagship offering is called RightNow CX, a cloud-based product designed to enhance online customer experience. This will also put Oracle in a more competitive position against Salesforce. Oracle is shelling out ...
SAP Announces HANA-Powered Analytics Cloud at TechEd 2011
Business software maker SAP revealed SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) OnDemand this week at TechEd 2011 held in Bangalore India. The cloud analytics offering is powered by HANA, SAP’s real-time data analytics platform and one of the key initiatives it has embarked on recently. “With SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand on SAP HANA, we are bringing ...
Weekly Cloud Roundup: VMware and Personal Cloud
There were several news highlights from this week coming out of the cloud space, and VMware and the personal cloud were the center of attention. This is partially because VMware Europe was held in Copenhagen from October 18-20. The first update comes from VMware parent company EMC, which announced EMC’s Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning 3.0. The ...
VMware Grows Partner Ecosystem as CEO Talks about Company Vision
VMware Europe is being held at Copenhagen this week, and the regular fair bit of updates and announcements is coming out of the conference. One interesting highlight is the company’s new Rapid Desktop Program, which allows OEMs to build pre-configured and pre-packed VDI appliances to simplify deployments and reduce overheads. Partners interested in signing up ...
Cloudera University Centralizes Hadoop Training Under One Brand Name
Cloudera has been offering training programs for Apache Hadoop, the data analytics engine the company and a number of other competitors based their products on, for quite some time now. It has apparently seen a growth in demand, which is why the company announced today it will be offering its courses via the new Cloudera ...
EMC’s Joe Tucci: Need to Play an Offensive Game
Joe Tucci, the chief executive of storage vendor EMC gave a lecture yesterday at the University of Washington about the strategy he adopted as CEO, and the outlook of the company in terms of growth and expansion. During his 50 minute lecture, Tucci put an emphasis on how his company is making a lot of ...
AppSense Introduces Free Version of Upcoming User Flexibility Suite
Desktop virtualization solutions provider AppSense announced a free version of AppSense Strata, a product suite currently in beta designed to add more user freedom to the existing and rather stiff VDI model enterprises implement. It is set to release in early 2012. This software has several advantages according to the company. “To date the user ...