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Verizon Migrates to the Cloud with CloudSwitch Acquisition
Verizon, a telco tilted towards mobile services rather than cloud development, is rehsaping its strategy to avoid the fate of Nokia and other mobile companies that failed to catch up on the market trends in time. The biggest carrier in the U.S. announced today it has acquired CloudSwitch, a startup that developed an environment for ...
Oracle VM Version 3.0 Takes on VMware
Database giant Oracle launched the third version of Oracle VM this week, its hypervisor offering which it hopes will help it gain a foothold in this space by luring in VMware customers. Monica Kumar, senior director of product marketing at Oracle, said that v3 introduces a number of new features. These include a more efficient interface, policy-based ...
EMC to Buy Back $2BN of Its Own Stock
Storage giant EMC said in a 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans on buying back $2 billion worth of shares in fiscal year 2011. This expands its existing plan of acquiring $1.5 billion in stock this year by $500 million. From the filing: “Item 8.01. Other Events. On August 18, 2011, the ...
App Stores Boost Revenue, Social Enterprise
The app ecosystems supporting Android and iOS, the two most prominent mobile operating systems that account for the vast majority of today’s market share, have ballooned to include hundreds of thousands of apps each – and app marketplaces are the key driver behind this growth. A fresh study by app search firm Chomp looks into ...
OpenStack Training Woos Developers as Open Cloud Gains Traction
Cloud host Rackspace will start offering training courses for OpenStack, delivered by the Rackspace Cloud Builders, the company’s core development team responsible for the NASA Nebula Cloud Platform and the Rackspace Cloud. OpenStack is an open-source cloud OS initiative Rackspace kick started with NASA a little over a year ago, and since gained an ecosystem ...
Samsung in a Post-Jobs World: the Apple, Android Love Triangle
Apple CEO Steve Jobs departed from Apple as chief executive of the highest valued tech company in the world, and that has been stirring a lot of buzz in the blogosphere throughout the day. It also raised some eyebrows overseas, among reporters, Apple’s competitors and their investors. That list includes Samsung, the largest manufacturer of ...
eXo the Latest to Support Cloud Foundry
eXo, a company that offers what it calls development-as-a-service, or a cloud based IDE, announced today that Cloud Foundry is now a part of the list of PaaS services it supports. Existing ones include CloudBees, Heroku and Red Hat OpenShift, the Linux distributor’s spin on open source PaaS. The company says it offers the first service ...
Gale Tech Optimizes for VMware Clouds
IT resource optimization company Gale Technologies announced a new product today, the Gale Scheduler for VMware Clouds. Scheduler aims to further increase the cost efficiency of virtualization by optimizing the resource allocation to virtual machines. This helps avoid VM sprawl, or the overuse of cloud infrastructure. The offering does a lot of automation by provisioning and ...
Convirture Unveils vCenter for the Open-source Cloud
Open-source cloud management software maker Convirture is trying to bridge the gap in the open cloud space with a new product company founder and chief executive Arsalan Farooq refers to as “VMware vCenter for the rest of us.” The new offering, ConVirt Enterprise Cloud, is due to set to launch this September. Enterprise Cloud is ...
Mobile Workers Slack Off to be More Productive
Smartphone and tablet technology is still maturing, but it has already managed to establish a foothold in the office, and this trend is moving forward fast. Mobile devices have several obvious advantages to workers, including convenient access to company resources, better collaboration and more, but a couple of recent studies also reveal that connected workers, ...