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Top-Level Changes at Microsoft, Cisco. New Marketing, New Mantra.
Longtime Microsoft marketing head Mich Mathews left his office just 6 days ago, and Microsoft has already found a replacement. Twenty-year Microsoft veteran Chris Capossela has been promoted to senior vice president of the Consumer Channels and Central Marketing Group, and will report to COO Kevin Turner. “Capossela is a 20-year Microsoft veteran who previously ...
LivingSocial, Twitter Beef Up Marketing and Monetization
This week we saw a couple of the biggest players in social media with some very big news, starting with LivingSocial. The number two daily deals service behind Groupon, LivingSocial is currently operating in 206 markets and employs more than 1,300. The company expects to expand to 400 markets this year, and the whopping $400 ...
The Big Data Revolution Takes on Consumer Products
The big data revolution is taking on the enterprise space with near real-time infrastructure insight, extremely accurate marketing analytics and more. However, it turns out consumer products are not too far behind – and your shoes just got a whole lot smarter. The Wall Street Journal reports that, according to the former CEO of IBM’s ...
Zenoss Heads to Sea with 25-Year Research Project
Physical, virtual and cloud management solutions vendor Zenoss announced that its Zenoss Enterprise offering has been selected to be the observatory management system of the Regional Scale Nodes (RSN). RSN is a component of the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Project, and a 25-year research project in or exploration and scientific discovery in ...
Business Intelligence Gets Big Data Boost from SAP Ventures
Geographical business intelligence solutions provider Aletryx announced it has raised $6 million in funding from SAP Ventures Fund I. The investment will be used to accelerate Aletryx growth, expand go-to-market executions and support potential acquisitions. “Alteryx is going to be a significant player in the sea-change occurring in Business Intelligence (BI) and SAP Ventures is ...
Datacenter Fabric War Heating Up, Alcatel-Lucent Fleshes Out AFN
The datacenter fabric market is a very hotly debated one at SNW this week, and for a good reason too. The biggest names in the $21 billion Ethernet switches industry are constantly pushing out new products and promoting existing ones – and Alcatel-Lucent is a part of this trend. Despite the company only holding a ...
Virsto’s New Storage Virtualization Software: Reduces Costs, Increases Efficiency
Today at the SNW conference, virtual servers and desktop solutions provider Virsto Software announced Virsto VDI, a hypervisor-based storage virtualization solution designed to drastically reduce the costs of virtual desktops deployment. The offering also aims to increase performance and end users’ desktop experience, and currently supports Citrix XenDesktop and Microsoft VDI running on Windows Server ...
Scality and CTERA Networks Scale the Cloud with Storage and Data Protection
Cloud storage and data protection are two of the hottest topics discussed in the SNW Spring Conference, which kicked off yesterday. And as two of the most prominent trends in the IT industry, quite a bit of updates crossed the wire lately. The latest one is an announcement by Scality, the developer of the highly ...
Couchbase Releases Membase Server for Mac OS X, Refreshes Couchbase Server
Couchbase, a NoSQL database company formed by the merger of CouchOne and Membase, today announced the Membase Server for Mac OS X – the community release have been rolled out today. Membase Server is an interactive web application scale data management optimization product, which has now extended its reach to the “Mac-centric, web-focused developers” audience. ...
Marvell’s New DRAM, SSD-based Accelerator Card: A Server Level Industry First
Drive chip maker Marvell announced in the SNW conference today it will release the DragonFly Virtual Storage Accelerator (VSA) later this year. The product is an accelerator card which aimed to deliver a tenfold increase in storage network throughput by caching and sorting a data in the server prior to sending it to back-end arrays, ...