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Does Dell’s CEO have a “Steve Jobs Plan” for the Company’s Future? DellWorld 2011
Every major tech corporation has its own conference, and electronics giant Dell is no exception. Dell World is kicking off this week, and this year will be the last conference the company will be holding in Austin, Texas, also the location of its headquarters. Michael Dell blames it on the lack of hotel rooms in ...
HP Layoff Rumors Grow as webOS Takes a Back Seat
Electronics giant Hewlett-Packard is now being led by the third CEO in two years, and the changes that analysts and company insiders predicted are now starting to realize, according to early reports. HP reportedly sent out an email to the 500 staffers in its San Diego unit, presumably the group that was working on webOS, ...
HortonWorks Powers Microsoft’s Hadoop Distro
Microsoft took a big dive into big data analytics today, alongside the announcement of SQL Server 2012. Thanks to a partnership with HortonWorks, a Hadoop service provider that was spun off from Yahoo!, the software giant will integrate the open-source data platform into Windows Server and Windows Azure. Microsoft revealed the team-up at the PASS ...
Cisco Grows and Loses in the WLAN Market
Networking giant Cisco is still the dominant player in the networking industry, despite a substantial decline throughout the past few quarters. This was enough to get CEO John Chambers to rethink his strategy and start a recovery process, and that may already be bearing its first fruits for Cisco. An IDC report picked up by ...
Zenprise Gets $30M to Extend Cloud Product Portfolio
Zenprise, a company that offers a mobile management platform for enterprises, announced a $30 million funding round led by the Silicon Valley-based Greylock Partners. Existing investors Rembrandt Venture Partners, Ignition Partners and Shasta Ventures are participating in the financing. “This year has been one of tremendous growth for Zenprise, driven by companies seeking to balance Bring-Your-Own-Device ...
XIO’s Hyper ISE Offers SSD Performance at Disk Prices
Xiotech, which has changed its name to XIO as of August this year, is betting a lot on its Hyper ISE (Integrated Storage Elements) product. CEO Alan Atkinson and chief enterprise architect Robert Stevenson discussed further in an interview with The Register. Hyper ISE is a high-performance storage system that’s designed for virtualized deployments and ...
DataDirect Networks Unveils Major WOS Upgrades
Big data-focused storage solutions provide DataDirect Networks announced the newest version of its Web Object Scaler, which features big performance improvements and data protection enhancements. “As more organizations move toward cloud paradigms, there is an exponential business need to globally ingest, store, process, replicate and retrieve hundreds of millions or billions of objects per hour ...
Verizon Set to Unveil Dual-Persona Mobile Software with VMware
This week at the San Diego CTIA Enterprise & Applications tradeshow, Verizon is set to announce dual-persona mobile software in partnership with VMware. It would allow business users to have two phones in ones, where personal data and business data are stored in two different segments. The advantages of this include economics, convenience on the ...
Box Closes $81M Round, Biggest Round to Date
Box.net, a cloud storage provider, announced it’s closed a massive $81 billion round of funding. New investors Salesforce.com, SAP Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates chipped in, alongside existing backers Andreessen Horowitz and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth. “Even though the funding was announced in two stages–an $18.6 million D-1 round from insiders in ...
Bottleneck Woes in Virtualization: Infographic
Tintri, a provider of a virtualization optimized storage system, released an infographic entitled “Storage Holds Back Virtualization Deployments,” in which it laid out the obstacles and demands from their VM customers. In 2011, thirty-six percent of companies are more than 75 percent virtualized, and that number is expected to grow to 65 percent by the ...