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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 ...
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 ...