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The Global Future of Crowdsourcing, According to myGengo
Since Wired journalist Jeff Howe coined the term “crowdsourcing” in 2006, an entire industry (led mostly by startups) has been created, and some players are even getting some attention from VCs. The latest is myGengo, a crowdsourced or “human cloud” translation service that employs a network of 3,000 native speakers to process massive amounts of ...
Autodesk Releases Cloud 3D Design Suite
Autodesk, the California-based professional 3D design and engineering software maker, is the latest vendor that has decided to venture into the cloud. It announced Autodesk Cloud today, a web-based version collection of some of the key tools and services it provides. It also comes in a premium edition called Autodesk Subscription. Autodesk Cloud provides customers ...
Public Cloud Firm Joyent Raises $5M in Funding
Joyent, a San Francisco tech firm that offers several cloud products and is sponsoring the Node.js project, raised $5 million in fresh funding according to an SEC filing picked up by TechCrunch. To date the seven year-old company raised $30 million in venture capital, thanks to a line-up of offerings that covers a lot of ground ...
Jaspersoft Brings BI to the iPad with New SDK
Business intelligence firm Jaspersoft launched Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite 4.2, the latest version of its product that comes with one major addition: an open source mobile BI iOS software development kit. The release is the first of its kind in this industry, according to the company. This is a pretty thought-out move considering that both big data and ...
DataDirect Networks Unveils New Software, New Execs
Big data storage solutions DataDirect Networks announced the SFA10K-X array; identical to its existing SFA10000 offering hardware-wise, but equipped with DDN’s new paralleled and multi-threaded version of its SFA OS. The platform is VMware-certified, built to support larger workloads and packs RAID, cache engines and data movers. The array supports GRID Scaler, EXAScaler and NASScale. DataDirect also unveiled a ...
Mozy Gets New Speedy, Backup Features
Mozy, EMC’s cloud backup service for enterprises, got an upgrade today. The first is a 100X improvement in file scanning capacity, according to the company. This “dramatically” decreases the time it takes to complete the initial backup process, and this is supplemented by the second and more major new addition to MozyPro. EMC unveiled what ...
AppSense Expands Its Ecosystem with New Program
Desktop virtualization solutions provider AppSense kicked off an interesting intuitive to help it grow its ecosystem, and consequently grow its share of the market. Its new AppSense Certified Service Provider, or ACSP program offers companies that provide subscription-based enterprise services to add a virtualization element to their existing models. This means AppSense would give access ...
EMC CEO Joe Tucci Stepping Down this Year
This past week or so has been particularly interesting for top level executives, considering that the chiefs of two of the biggest IT firms in the world have been replaced. Joe Tucci, the CEO of EMC, said today that he will no longer serve as the head of the storage giant, effective at the end ...
Cloudera Integrates Hadoop Distro with R Analytics
Cloudera picked up a new partner today, adding Revolution Analytics to its growing ecosystem. Revolution a startup that came out of stealth in May of last year, developing solutions based on the open R statistical analysis programming language. Today the company announced that it will integrate Cloudera’s Distribution with Apache Hadoop (CDH3) with its Revolution R ...
Real-Estate Search Providers Catching IPO Fever
One of the fastest growing web trends is real-estate search, mainly because this market is crowded with highly competitive companies that offer uses maximum convenience when looking for a new home. Among the top players in this space is Trulia, which will soon go public, according to chief executive Pete Flint. He has declined to ...