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VMware Integrates RabbitMQ Messaging System with Cloud Foundry
VMware has integrated RabbitMQ with Cloud Foundry, its open-source beta PaaS offering that competes with the Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and other offerings. RabbitMQ is an also open messaging system that was originally developed by the UK-based Rabbit Technologies, a company VMware acquired last year. “RabbitMQ is now a first class citizen of Cloud ...
Cisco Q3: A “Little Bit” Better than Last Quarter
Cisco held its earnings call yesterday and it seems that, at least on the short-run, its restructuring efforts are starting to pay off. The networking giant managed to beat analysts’ average expectation of 38 percent per share with profit of $2.2 billion from its fourth quarter, or 40 cents a share, excluding $772 million spent ...
There is No Big Data without the Companies Leveraging It
O’Reilly’s Alistair Croll wrote a piece discussing something data scientists everywhere seem to agree with: large companies are not doing enough with their stockpile of data–not by a long shot. The reason, according to him, is that established organizations have a much harder time “breaking their own business models” than smaller and more agile startups ...
Citrix Acquires RingCube to Personalize Virtual Desktops
Today Citrix announced the acquisition of RingCube for an undisclosed amount, a company that offers a virtual desktop customization and management platform. In a release Citrix explained how RightCube eliminates what it called the “great VDI tradeoff,” the choice between virtual desktop customization and efficiency may enterprises have to face. RingCube works by creating a ...
SAP Looking to Expand in the Chinese Market
Business software maker SAP is drastically expanding by launching new initiatives and heading overseas, with China being one of the most important destinations on the list. The company has been seeing growth in the Asia Pacific region for quite some now, and reported a 14 percent year-per-year increase in revenues from this market in the second ...
Big Data, Hadoop Seep Into More Business, Services
There have been some notable highlights from the data analytics industry bubbling up this week, both from big, and relatively small players alike. The first update comes from EMC, one of the many companies attending at SIGGRAPH 2011. The reason the storage giant is at the annual graphic design conference was to demonstrate how its ...
EMC’s Newest Version of AutoSwap for Data Recovery
Storage giant EMC unveiled the latest version of its AutoSwap data recovery and protection software at the SHARE mainframe user event in Orlando today. The updated offering now comes with several major improvements, starting with extended support for the z/VM mainframe OS. The company also added what it calls EMC GDDR, or Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart, ...
Skytap’s New Cloud Orchestration Features
Cloud automation service provider Skytap announced the addition of two new cloud orchestration and configuration routing features to its Skytap Cloud lab manager today, with an aim of pushing up it a notch ahead of the rest of the market. Its competitors include Lab Manager and VMLogix. The first addition is a a cloud orchestration interface ...
AWS Outage Causes Web Services to Go Down Again
One of the biggest factors that hold back some companies from migrating to the cloud is the whole topic of reliability. The average uptime of cloud deployments has been observed to be higher than that of traditional ones, but, that doesn’t mean there iesn’t any margin for error. Last night Amazon EC2 and the Relational ...
Seagate Hybrid Drive is the Cloud’s Future
Hard drive maker Seagate announced it the one millionth unit of its Momentus XT solid state hybrid drive, which the company introduced back in spring 2010 for use in laptops and gaming systems. The main reason the Momentus XT has seen so much success in such a short period of time is that, at its ...