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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: ...
DataDirect Networks Strengthens Market Position with Recent Milestones
Big data storage firm DataDirect Networks is growing its market share by pursing an aggressive strategy that involves expanding their offering portfolio and strengthening the management team. The company’s most recent update is the announcement of Web Object Scaler 2.0, its object-based cloud storage appliance. DDN has been around for a decade and has established ...
Hadoop Leads Market Trends as Hortonworks gains Traditional Players
Open-source big data engine Hadoop has become one of the fastest growing trends in the IT world, and the number of companies that get involved with this ecosystem – both solution providers and users – consistently contributes to their growth. One of the latest names on the list is Microsoft. On the same day it ...
Windows 7 Officially More Popular than XP
Microsoft’s Windows XP has been the most popular OS in the world for over 10 years, even long after the next two versions of the operating system release. Vista was hardly a replacement to the far more stable XP when it launched, bit Windows 7’s smaller size, ease of use and a simplified install seem ...
IBM Joins EcoGrid, the EU’s Socially Green Project
IBM and the European Commission released a joint announcement saying that Big Blue is teaming up with an EU-backed consortium to kick off EcoGrid EU, a part-green, part-social experiment that’s meant to increase public awareness of renewable energy using connected devices. The EcoGrid EU will be piloted on the Danish island of Bornholm with 1/10 of ...