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SAP Acquires Crossgate, Ends Court Battle with Oracle?
SAP had a few interesting developments today. First of all, it acquired Crossgate for an undisclosed amount, a company that offers hosted business-to-business integration services. This means Crossgate customers can integrate their networks with partners to ensure secure file and data exchange. The firm is also based on Germany, just like SAP, and claims its ...
DataDirect Networks Brings Fusion Tech to Big Data Storage
Big data storage company DataDirect Networks announced Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) 10K-X today, a new storage appliance. It aims to deliver higher RoI by reducing costs of ownership, while also sticking with its existing approach of optimizing its solutions for big data and cloud deployments. “”The DDN SFA10K-X is a high- performance, scalable solution that will ...
EMC Goes Green with New Datacenter
Storage giant EMC opened a brand new datacenter recently in Durham, North Carolina. The facility is the latest of six so-called Centers of Excellence, or COE, that are spread throughout Russia, India, China, Egypt, Israel and Ireland. The 450,000 square foot facility, a tier 3 datacenter, will serve a number of purposes, “The new COE ...
Facebook Games Helped Create 182K New Jobs
Facebook provides a social platform for a sizable chunk of the Earth’s total population, and the company has a naturally big impact on the economy. A fresh report released today by the University of Maryland Business School reveals some new insight into the social networking giant’s gaming ecosystem, which apparently helped create directly and directly ...
IBM, AT&T Face Antitrust Investigations
IBM and AT&T, two of the biggest tech firms across several industries, are both facing serious antitrust allegations. And Big Blue is taking the heat in the European market. The EU launched an investigation into how IBM operates in the $4.1 billion European mainframe market, and specifically whether or not it used it to intentionally ...
Hitachi Grows HP Storage Ecosystem with Latest Launch
Japanese hardware maker Hitachi announced that 3PAR F-Class, T-Class and P10000 V-Class systems will ship with its 3.5-inch Fibre Channel Ultrastar SLC-based solid state drives in them. The Ultrastar SSD400S SSD line-up is specially designed for OEMs, and Hewlett-Packard, which acquired 3PAR over a year ago, is a major addition to its growing partner ecosystem. “We are gratified ...
Opera Bets on Browser-App Store Combo
Browser maker Opera Software, not to be confused with big data firm Opera Solutions that raised $84 million last week, is venturing deeper into mobile. It’s been doing that by not only offering mobile versions of its web browser (as well as mobile ad services now that it has acquired AdMarvel), but also by recently ...
HP In Hot Water for Iffy webOS Plans, Sued by Investors
Hewlett-Packard is facing some serious accusations for allegedly misleading its investors about the performance of its webOS mobile operating system, Reuters reported. During its latest earnings call, HP announced plans to spin off its $41 billion Personal Systems Group and stop shipping webOS devices as a part of an effort to boost its low margins. ...
Cisco Quad Tops List for iPad, Android Business Apps
This week too we’re bringing you five iPad and Android Honeycomb apps developed for business users, and Cisco Quad 2.1 for iPad By Cisco is the first app on the list. The collaboration app represents a part of the networking giant’s strategy to expand beyond its core switching and routing business to mobile and cloud ...
This Week in the Cloud: from Gluster to WeVideo
There have been a few interesting cloud developments this week, and we’ve rounded up the most notable ones here. The first highlight is an update from Gluster. The open-source storage software maker teamed up with NAS network storage server maker Savage IO to integrate the two companies’ offerings. Savagis will incorporate GlusterFS into its machines. The ...