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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 ...
Red Hat Takes on VMware with oVirt
Red Had is working on something big in an attempt to snatch some market share from VMware, the EMC subsidiary currently sitting on the throne of the virtualization space. The Linux distributor teamed up with Cisco, IBM, Intel, NetApp and SuSE to jump start the oVirt Project, a pluggable hypervisor manager for KVM built on the ...
Dell, Intel Show Some Homegrown Love
Intel and Dell will be setting up a hybrid supercomputer dubbed “Stampede” for the University of Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Stampede is a 10-petaflop powerhouse that will be deployed in January 2013 and comes with Intel’s Many Integrated Core (MIC) x86 coprocessor. MIC is the successor of “Larrabee,” a failed attempt by the chipmaker ...
Microsoft Launches Bing Deals, Competes with Google, Amazon
Microsoft is stepping up its competition with Google over the search market with the launch of Bing Deals, a new feature that allows users to browse through deals aggregated from the more popular services, as well as some independent retailers. Bing Deals is actually an expansion rather than a new release: Bing Mobile Deals has ...
This Week in the Cloud: Open-Source, Personal Cloud
A lot has been going on in the cloud this week, and two areas in particular, open-source and personal cloud storage, were the main highlights. First of all, Diablo – the latest and first “production ready” version of OpenStack –was launched yesterday. The release is still fresh so stability is somewhat of an issue, but ...
SAP Sybase Tops the Tablet List for iPad, Android Business Apps
This week’s tablet biz apps roundup brings you five of our best picks, and Sybase Mobile Sales & Workflow by SAP is the most noteworthy. The iPad SAP CRM client is a part of a much broader attempt by SAP to boost its cloud, mobile and big data initiatives, as well to get legacy customers ...
Stealthy Startup Raises Funding, Talks of Upcoming Offering
New York-based stealth startup Dashlane secured an impressive $5 million in a first round of funding. VC firms Rho Ventures and FirstMark Capital co-led the financing, and execs from both companies are joining Dashlane’s board of directors. Dashlane co-founder Bernard Liautaud, a venture capitalist who also co-founded and led Business Objects (up until HP acquired it for ...