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GigaSpaces Scores Another Partnership – this Time with SuperDerivatives
Today virtualized application platforms vendor GigaSpaces announced it has landed another partnership, this time with financial company SuperDerivatives. SD is using GigaSpaces’ eXtreme Application Platform to enhance the performance of some of its risk management solutions. GigaSpaces is still a relative newcomer to the cloud services industry, and partnerships are very important element for the company’s ...
The Web’s Global Map Looks Like This: Today & Tomorrow
What is the worldwide web? We know it spans the globe, and we know what we can do with it. But from a network perspective, what does it look like on a global scale? Communications research firm TeleGeography released its Global Internet Map for 2011, which provides some insight to the internet activity this year ...
Amazon Cloud Drive Takes on Personal Cloud Hosting, Music Industries
Amazon music has always been a significant alternative in the iTunes culture market. And the personal cloud, notably cloud file hosting space, has been really picking up in light of Box.net’s recent $48 million funding round and other developments we’ve seen lately. Amazon evidently realized the enormous momentum this industry has gained, which is one ...
Data2Conf Kicking Off in a Week: Highlights
This year’s Data 2.0 conference is due one week from now, launching on Monday, April 4 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. The conference, hosted by midVentures, will focus on the rise of data accessibility throughout numerous areas including social, geo, government and advertising data – all of have been very active ...
SingTel Partners with VMware: Expanding the Cloud in Asia
Singapore-based telecommunications service provider SingTel has partnered up with VMware to integrate a part of the virtualization giant’s offerings portfolio, the VMware vCloud Datacenter Services, into its newly launched SingTel PowerON Compute cloud solution. The private cloud offering, and offers simplified integration – as well as a highlighted “no-one-cloud-fits-all” approach: “Companies will be able to ...
Microsoft the Last to Invest in IPv4? The End Is Near.
2011’s Y2K. The Internet Address and Naming Agency (IANA) rolled out 40 billion 32-bit IPv4 addresses roughly 40 years ago, but after that much time, and 2 billion internet users later, we ran out of the precious commodity. This is where the presumably bumpy transition to IPv6 comes in, but Microsoft just spent $7 million ...
Android not so Open-Source After All: Expansion and Bad Karma
Android was first introduced by Google as the platform which will bring “freedom to the masses” via publicly available source code, but it may just have been a very broad marketing hype. Google today announced it will delay the release of Honeycomb’ source code for the foreseeable future, which puts in question when – or ...
Structure Big Data 2011: SiliconANGLE Highlights & Recap
GigaOM’s Structure Big Data 2011 conference spurred quite a few pieces of interesting news, but it also served a great opportunity for us to highlight the big data topics we’ve been following for over a year at SiliconAngle. First of all, we can look at some of the highlights noted by some of the Data ...
Oracle, RIM, GameStop Exeed Exceptatons, Boost Revenues
Oracle had its earnings call today for fiscal Q3 2010, and it topped all estimates. Profit (with acquisition costs and some other expenses not calculated in) rose to 54 cents a share – which topped analysts’ average estimate by 4 percent. New software license sales rose 29 percent to $2.21 billion, which is much higher ...
This Week in the Cloud: EU, Open-Source and HP Make Strides
Cloud adoption is a growing trend on a global scale, and as demand explodes, many companies are jumping on this profitable bandwagon, further pushing innovation – and interesting news developments. The European Union has paid attention to all this, and as vendor lock-in concerns intensify with the emergence of newer and better providers, the EU ...