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EMC’s Steve Manley Talks Backup, Dedupe at VMworld 2011
Steven Manley, CTO of EMC’s Backup and Recovery group attended VMworld and made his first appearance in theCube. He discussed backup, where EMC stands in this market, and his take on the industry. Manley kicked of the convo with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante by talking a bit about his role in the company, following with his ...
MapR No Longer the New Kid on the Block, Raises $20M
MapR, the startup that developed the M3 and M5 Hadoop distributions competing with Cloudera’s dominant distribution as well as the several other players currently hitting the market, has secured $20 million in venture capital. The funding round was led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates. “MapR ...
Fusion-io Launches ioCache at VMworld 2011
Fusion-io had some big news coming out of VMworld, the announcement of ioCache. The new offering is the fruit of a one year-long team up with ioTurbine, a developer of virtualized caching software in acquired only three weeks ago. Fusion-io CEO David Flynn took the opportunity to dismiss some speculations claiming that his company’s intention ...
VMworld 2011 News Reel: VDI, Networking & More
It’s day 1 of the VMworld 2011 conference, and we are already seeing a host of vendors and existing partners further aligning themselves with EMC’s virtualization subsidiary. Virsto, a startup that developed software designed to reduce VM storage costs, announced the upcoming beta version of its offering for vSphere 4.1. Virsto has been offering a ...
Hurricane Irene Could be the Next Target for Phishers
Spear-phishing has proven to be a far more effective means of breaching a network, whether that of a consumer or an enterprise, than it has been for the past few years. Major events, such as the tsunami and following earthquake that struck Japan not too long ago, act as triggers for wide-scale spear-phishing campaigns. Hurricane ...
Hewlett-Packard Launches Cloud-in-a-Box at VMworld
Hewlett-Packard rolled out VirtualSystem, a cloud-a-box-offering, at VMworld today. The offering blends HP storage, servers and networking gear with the latest version of VMware ESXi and the vSphere 5.0 VM management tools, as well as HP’s Insight automation software. Customers can use existing vSphere licenses, or buy ones preinstalled on the pre-configured hardware. The VirtualSystem rack ...
Microsoft Takes a Jab at VMware, Salesforce
Microsoft is taking several approaches to try and grab customer interest to its products and away from what it competitors are offering. Its recent marketing efforts, with no real surprise about their timing, come just in time for some major rivaling events. Just in time for the VMworld 2011 conference that kicked off today, Microsoft ...
SunGard Launches New Recovery Suite with VMware Support
IT services firm SunGard announced a new managed recovery suite called Recover2Cloud. The suite incorporates several services that encompass monitoring, troubleshooting and testing along with deployment as well as recovery. “SunGard’s Recover2Cloud services enhances its existing portfolio with important features like SLA guarantees, service automation and recovery orchestration, and enterprise-class services,” says Laura DuBois from ...
Cloud’s Week in Review: From Open-source Storage to Intel Research
There’s been some buzz around quite a bit of cloud industries throughout the week, following some big announcements including product updates, acquisitions and more. The first one to take the spotlights is Gluster, developer of the open-source, software-only GlusterFS storage platform. Only month after the release of the previous version of its offering, Gluster announced ...
Thomson Reuters and other Top Tablet Apps for Business Users
This week too we’ve rounded up five of the most widely used tablet business apps out there. This category is a growing one, and more and more developers are following the trend. As the social enterprise begins to take off, business-oriented apps become even more important for the iPad and Android tablets in particular. iPad ...