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Weekly Cloud Roundup: From Microsoft Azure to keeping the Cloud-in-a-Box
This week had its fair share of updates from the cloud-based industry, spanning a number of industries that drew interest from stratups and large solution providers alike. The first one in our round-up is Microsoft. The software giant is looking to grow the audience for its Azure Platform-as-a-Service offering and their decided tactic is to ...
HP Transformation Driven by Big Data
Hewlett-Packard had a pretty unusual earnings call this week, considering that the company used it as an opportunity to reveal some major internal changes. After reporting fairly flat results, mainly due to declining demand in the PC space and a number of other factors, HP essentially stated it’s on a path to become something more similar ...
Microsoft Blames Outage on “Networking Interruption”
Microsoft released some info about the three-hour outage that affected North American Office 365 and SkyDrive customers two days ago, blocking off access to their email and calendar services. The software giant put the blame on “a networking interruption” in one of its datacenters, though there’s still no word about the Dynamics CRM outage that ...
Twitter Can Help you Beat the Market According to Derwent Capital
Use of Big Data analytics tools is picking up fast among enterprises and markets such as Twitter–which sells its users’ tweets in a number of packages–are becoming ever-more valuable resources. Some however managed to extend the insight they receive from individuals’ 140-charcater messages far beyond marketing. Hedge fund firm Derwent Capital is leaning on Twitter ...
VMware Trying to Realize Value with Cloud Ecosystem
Virtualization giant VMware has been expanding into new fields recently, notably into the platform-as-a-service market with its open-source Cloud Foundry offering. Cloud Foundry is based in part of technology the company bought as a part of a 2009 deal to acquire SpringSource for $420 million, but the consensus is that the company still has a ...
Barnes & Noble Survives Digital Transition with $204M Investment
Bookseller Barnes & Noble announced it has received a strategic investment of $204 million from Liberty Media. Liberty acquired about 12 million shares of the company at a price of $17 per share, which adds up to a 16.6 percent chunk of the largest bookstore chain in the world. Based on a release, Liberty Media’s original ...
Hewlett-Packard Splitting up after Earnings Call Shocker
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard reported fairly flat Q3 results, and took the opportunity to make some major announcements regarding the company’s outlook and brand. HP reported revenue of $32.1 billion, up from $30.7 billion a year ago but still well bellow Wall Street’s expectation of $34 billion. It was on par with the company’s own prediction ...
Dell’s Sales Slump a Downer for U.S Stocks
U.S stocks took a dive after hardware giant Dell reported slow growth in Q2, and cut its forecast for the next quarter. Dell’s net income rose by 63 percent compared to the same period last year, but revenue only rose by a mere one percent due to weakening PC demand. The company also scaled back ...
Citrix Invests in 2 More Startups for Accelerator Program
Virtualization firm Citrix has recently invested in two up and coming startups as a part of its seed funding program, the Citrix Startup Accelerator. The two companies are Nukona, the maker of an app management platform, and GridCentric, a company that makes a VDI optimization solution Citrix has expressed interest in. Starting off with Nukona, ...
VMware Strengthens Offerings with Growing Partner Base
VMware, EMC’s virtualization subsidiary, is taking several approaches to becoming even more established, as well as providing newer offerings that are more attractive to customers, one of them being the expansion of its partner base and 3rd party support for its products. Today data security firm IdentityLogix announced the SpyLogix for VMware module for its security intelligence ...