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Pageonce Scores 5M Users Amidst Mobile Finance Competition
Pageonce, the operator of Pageonce Money & Bills, a mobile service that lets users manage their bank accounts from a number of mobile platforms, has reached a major milestone, with a reported five million registered users. The company says that adds up to five percent of the total number of smartphone holders in the U.S, ...
Joyent Opens up SmartOS in the Cloud
Cloud software developer Joyent announced that its SmartOS platform, which was once only a component of its SmartDataCenter and public cloud offerings, is now available under an open-source license. Joyent CTO Jason Hoffmann refered to the server platform as the ““only modern OS” developed in the past decade during an interview with GigaOM. “Joyent SmartOS is ...
Nutanix Debuts Rounded-Out VMware Server
Startup Nutanix announced its first product, a virtualized server it named Complete Cluster. The 2U or 3.5 inch high VMware-based box comes equipped with four x86 nodes, each containing eight 8 Intel Xeon processors that add up to a combined 48 cores and 192GB, or 768GB RAM. Complete Cluster offers 20TB worth of Seagate SATA hard ...
Cisco Pulls the Plug on Green Program, More Layoffs
Cisco has shut down its Smart Connected Buildings program, according to a blog post by Laura Ipsen, Cisco’s SVP of Global Policy and Government Affairs. The program was Cisco’s household energy management offering, and was mostly based on technology developed by Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence – a company the networking giant acquired last year. eWeek Europe gave ...
Permabit Doubles Up on Dedupe Speed, Another Year of Milestones
Permabit’s got some good news this week, having increased its Albireo dedupelication offering’s speed increased by 250 percent to 400GB/sec. The change has been implimented in just under a year. In late 2010, the speed recorded by the Enterprise Strategy Group Lab (ESG) was 77GB/sec. Another benefit of Albeiro is that it doesn’t slow down ...
Gusto for Tablet Business Users, and other iPad, Android Apps
The app ecosystem is growing, and the same can be said of every sub category across Apple and Android marketplaces. That includes the accelerating tablet business app market, which has built up a lot of momentum thanks to the widening adoption of mobile computing in the enterprise. This week, the first app to make it ...
HP Pre 3 Debutes in the UK: Specs, Info
Hewlett-Packard’s webOS-based Pre3 smartphone will become available to U.K-based customers later this month. It will feature a 3.58 inch screen, 512MB of RAM, either 8GB or 16GB internal memory and a QWERTY keyboard. It seems that Orange will be the carrier, based on a support page on its website ( even though the Pre3 ...
Dell Expects Growth in Q3 Despite Market Declines
Dell will be holding its earnings call tomorrow afternoon, and it’s expected to report some growth, despite seeing a decline in a few areas. The average profit forecast of 32 analysts stands at $0.49 per share, or a $0.07 decline in earnings compared to the last quarter, and a drop that’s $0.17 more than in ...
Ahead of HP Earnings Call: Needs to Live up to Expectations
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard will hold its earnings call three days from now on August 18, two days after competitor Dell. Under relatively new chief executive Leo Apotheker the company has been expanding greatly in the high-margin services and cloud segments, and investors will need to be convinced that has been paying off. Wall Street expects ...
Xsigo Follows QFabric with Server Fabric Launch
With the debut of the SFS 1.0 Server Fabric Suite that will become available in November, Xsigo announced its virtual datacenter fabric offering. The software update complements the company’s existing Xsigo’s I/O Director, XMS Management Software and Fabric Extenders products to form the Xsigo Server Fabric. The offering basically sets up a networking layer in the ...