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Oracle Expands Cloud Portfolio, Loses Steam in Google, HP Lawsuits
Oracle has seen a lot of developments recently, from every aspect there is to the IT industry. The most recent one is its latest acquisition – the buyout of web-based cloud engagement company FatWire for an undisclosed sum. The deal will finalize sometime in mid-2011. “Its [FatWire’s] products “help organizations drive customer engagement and loyalty ...
Juniper Networks’ Financial Performance Comes with Optimism, New Customers
Robyn Denholm, executive vice president and CFO for Juniper Networks, thinks the dollar has a strong future ahead, despite of a “relatively weak” near term outlook. The euro isn’t going anywhere, either. A bold statement from Juniper, considering the company’s current financial position. “The decline in the dollar against most of the world’s major and emerging ...
ClickFox Adds Advisory Board, Pushes Innovations in Big Data BI
Big data analytics is drawing a lot of attention, both from the direction of businesses looking to monetize their data, and solutions providers working around developing increasingly sophisticated and comprehensive offerings. ClickFox, a maker of customer experience analytics software, is one of those solutions providers, offering its behavioral analysis engine to analyze “all customer interactions.” ...
Is Dell’s Security and Storage Strategy Complete?
Dell SecureWorks, the company’s security segment, has teamed-up with on-demand vulnerability management solutions provider Qualys to deliver VMS services to global customers. Dell will resell Qualys’s QualysGuard product line-up, which includes web application scanning, PCI compliance and policy compliance services among other things. “QualysGuard’s features and Qualys’ commitment to customer security and global reach align nicely ...
SAP Expanding Globally via HANA, Investments in India
German business software maker SAP is determined to significantly boost revenues, and one of the main aspects to its strategy is analytics. Today the company passed its latest milestone, making the SAP HANA business analytics appliance available to customers globally. “General availability is a major milestone for SAP HANA, but this is just the beginning,” ...
Brightcove the Latest to Join Gluster’s Customer Base
Open-source scale-out storage solutions vendor Gluster has landed a big customer – Brightcove. The cloud content distribution provider will use Gluster’s platform to power its Video Cloud offering used by media companies, businesses, and organizations in over 50 different countries. Video Cloud is leveraged for video streaming, online adverting and so on. “Gluster is delivering ...
IBM Adds Three New Services to SmartCloud
IBM’s pushed out a major update to its SmartCloud cloud platform offering, adding three new services to round-out the product. They are offered on a per-use case for each running VM and stored data. IBM SmartCloud Archive is the first, designed for records storage regulatory requirements including eDiscovery. The second is SmartCloud Virtualized Server Recovery, ...
EMC Opens Support Center in Utah, Adds 500 Jobs
EMC will be opening a new support center in Utah, Governor Gary R. Herbert announced this week. Under its agreement with the state, the storage giant will add 500 new jobs and will invest $7 million in the set-up of the new facility that will accommodate this workforce by 2015. “On an annual aggregate basis, ...
NFC Makes Reservations at Restaurants & Hotels with New Tech
NFC tag supplier UPM RFID and software developer introduced a new app designed to help restaurants to improve customer service. Customers are promoted to download Connected Restaurant when tapping an NFC-tagged poster at the front desk. From there on they can use the service to check-in, browse through the menu and so on: “They [customers] ...
Oracle Court Battles not Deterring Investors before Q4 Earnings Call
Oracle has been tangled up with several court battles through this this year and late 2010. That includes SAP, Hewlett-Packard and Google, and the search giant has billions of ad revenue now at stake. Oracle sued Google last year in claims that Dalvic, the processing virtual machine used for Android, infringes on several Java patents. ...