Weekly Cloud Roundup: VMware and Personal Cloud
There were several news highlights from this week coming out of the cloud space, and VMware and the personal cloud were the center of attention. This is partially because VMware Europe was held in…
VMware Grows Partner Ecosystem as CEO Talks about Company Vision
VMware Europe is being held at Copenhagen this week, and the regular fair bit of updates and announcements is coming out of the conference. One interesting highlight is the company’s new Rapid Desktop Program,…
Cloudera University Centralizes Hadoop Training Under One Brand Name
Cloudera has been offering training programs for Apache Hadoop, the data analytics engine the company and a number of other competitors based their products on, for quite some time now. It has apparently seen…
EMC’s Joe Tucci: Need to Play an Offensive Game
Joe Tucci, the chief executive of storage vendor EMC gave a lecture yesterday at the University of Washington about the strategy he adopted as CEO, and the outlook of the company in terms of…
AppSense Introduces Free Version of Upcoming User Flexibility Suite
Desktop virtualization solutions provider AppSense announced a free version of AppSense Strata, a product suite currently in beta designed to add more user freedom to the existing and rather stiff VDI model enterprises implement. …
Mobile, Personal Storage Roundup: Latest Fuss around Android, Services
Two of the most dominant trends in the personal cloud today include mobile, which has become a constant since the launch of the original iPhone in 2007, and cloud-based storage solutions, which ties in…
Millennial Media Unwraps Toolbox with New SDKs, Dev Site
Mobile ad network Millennial Media released version 4.5 of its Android and iOS SDKs yesterday, and rolled out an update to its developer site, mmDev.com. The new SDKs feature a few enhancements, most notably…
EMC and VCE Integrate Management Suite with VMware
EMC and VCE, a two-year-old joint venture between the storage vendor, Cisco and VMware announced the latest release of EMC’s Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager/Provisioning. The new software, version 3.0, plugs into vCloud Director and vCenter…
AppSense and App-DNA Partner for VDI Migration
Virtual desktop solutions provider AppSense and application migration services firm App-DNA teamed-up to offer customers a joint migration service, designed to help companies move Windows-based apps to Windows 7 and VDI platforms. App-DNA currently…
Cisco’s Major Portfolio Expansion: Adapted for Big Data
Networking giant Cisco has had a rough ride this past year, undergoing a major restructuring in its efforts to return to its core business. Today Cisco took an important step forward, adding new switches to…