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WalMart Acquires OneRiot, Beefs Up Digital Strategy
Wal-Mart, the retail giant that also happens to be the number one employer in the world, has taken a slight turn with its strategy and has begun to focus on expanding its digital product portfolio. Its latest move is the acquisition of OneRiot, a startup that helps companies to better target their social media and ...
SAP Acquires Hemisphere, Expands Mobile Growth Strategy
German business software giant SAP acquired Right Hemisphere for an undisclosed amount; Right Hemisphere is a company that develops 3D visualization tools for enterprise users. the company’s goal is to simplify employees’ workflows and overall efficiency adding another elemental to usual collaboration and communication. “Employees will be able to make process and procedural adjustments on the ...
ServiceMesh the Latest to Support OpenStack
Enterprise cloud solutions provider ServiceMesh announced that it has extended its ServiceMesh Agility platform to support OpenStack, the open-source cloud OS initiative first kicked off by Rackspace and NASA, along with several others. ServiceMesh Agility allows customers to setup OpenStack clouds, as well as well deployments based on other popular offerings by VMware and Amazon Web Services. ...
Pano Logic Scales Down VDI for SMBs
Virtual desktop infrastructure vendor Pano Logic debuted two new offerings today, Pano Express SMB and Pano Express HA. Express SMB and HA are scaled versions of Pano’s VDI in a box solution, designed specifically for small to medium-sized businesses. A single deployment can support up to 60 ‘power users,’ according to the company. John Kish, ...
Opera Solutions Lands Industry First with $84M for Big Data Innovation
Opera Solutions, a big data software maker (contrary to Opera Software, the developer of the web browser), just announced one of the biggest funding rounds in the history of this industry. The company secured $84 million in a first round of funding led by Silver Lake Sumeru, with participation from Accel-KKR, Invus Financial Advisors, JGE ...
Fusion-io Grows Partnerbase as Flash Storage Gains Traction
Solid-state SAN storage provider Kaminario has teamed up with Fusion-io, a company that sells flash-based storage acceleration solutions, to develop what it calls the Kaminario K2 storage, one of the industry’s first all solid-state SAN products. The company promises that this new technology is built to optimize the performance of heavy business applications. “The Kaminario K2 ...
Nirvanix Investor Lands Farah Giga, Grows Hardware Interest
IT VC firm Valhalla Ventures announced that it hired of Farah Giga, previously a strategy and business development manager at Hewlett-Packard. She will serve as a principal, focusing on enterprise hardware investments. At 28 Giga has quite a resume, which is what landed her the new job with the venture capital firm in the first ...
Cloud Security Forges Partnerships as Industry Bubbles with Opportunity
European end-point cybersecurity provider BullGuard turns to security firm Commtouch in a partnership designed to integrate the latter technology with BullGuard’s offerings. Specifically, Commtouch’s Anti-Spam and GlobalViewURL Filtering products will be included in BullGuard’s Internet Security 12, the latest version of its security suite that is set to hit the market this month. “After testing multiple solutions, we ...
Gluster Invests in Partnership Strategy, Teams with NAS Provider
Open-source storage software developer Gluster is growing, and expanding its partnerbase has proven to be a very effective strategy so far. The latest announcement from the company says it partnered up with Savage IO, a veteran-owned NAS network storage servers maker. The latter will be integrating Gluster’s GlusterFS platform into its data storage systems, which are ...
SAP Plans to Meet Revenue Expectations through Partnerships
Eric Duffaut, President SAP Global Ecosystem and Channels laid out in an interview given to Forbes just how his company plans to increase revenues from $17 billion in revenue in 2010 to $27.1 billion in 2015: making a lot of partnerships, and restructuring the existing ecosystem. New technologies such as the HANA analytics platform, mobile ...