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Amidst Decline, Cisco Does Damage Control
Cisco’s stock has been sliding quite a bit in the past four quarters, and CEO John Chambers decided to take action recently. It’s interesting to look at a timeline of how Cisco’s troubles started, and how they – as well as more positive strides – developed. Focus.com outlined the journey in this infographic (see below). ...
NetApp Finds Strength in Partnerships, Bets on Flash Storage
Patrick Rogers, NetApp Vice President of Alliances, sat down at The Cube in the heart of the SAPphire 2011 conference with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Rogers began by discussing the current market demand from his company’s view point, and highlighted three main elements. These include cutting IT infrastructure costs, increase the efficiency of the ...
Cisco Strengthens Tie with Microsoft by Expanding Support Portfolio
Cisco announced new data center solutions for customers who want to run Microsoft enterprise applications on Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS.) This launch is a part of the networking giant’s recovery and reshaped focus on its core businesses, and comes the same day NetApp announced a similar offering also powered by Microsoft components. Cisco launched ...
HP Lands New Storage Client, Builds Up Cloud Services
Hardware and aspiring software giant Hewlett-Packard broke the news that it has landed a major storage customer, a company which apparently benefited quite a bit from the transition, according to an official release. The new client is Knight Frank LLP, among the world’s largest privately owned global property agency and consultancy. The London-based company has ...
NetApp Follows VMware-Shavlik Deal with Microsoft Partnership
VMware and NetApp made a couple of milestone announcements, starting with the former’s acquisition of Shavlik. VMware said in a press release it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the develop of SaaS IT management solutions designed for SMBs. The two companies have a history of cooperation, and VMware’s acquisition of Shavlik probably ...
Oracle Exadata gets a Boost as Competition with HANA Intensifies
Oracle has entered into an agreement with NetSuite, a maker of cloud-based financials and ERP software, to provide it with Exadata servers to support its cloud. NetSuite has become an Oracle customer to increase performance and deliver a number of other additions it hasn’t before to its customers, as the company steadily increases its own ...
Hadoop-Based Datameer Raises $9 Million
Hadoop has been in the spotlight for the last few weeks, thanks to a number of launches and developments we’ll get to later. Today the news comes from Datameer, a startup that offers a big data analytics solutions based on Apache Hadoop. Datameer, founded by Ajay Anad, former Director of Product Management for Hadoop and ...
HP Takes Milestone Leap with HANA, Financial Offering
Hewlett-Packard made a very significant announcement about two developments: it has launched a brand new financing offering, and its HP ProLiant DL980 G7 and HP ProLiant DL580 G7 systems are now among the first of its servers to be certified for running SAP HANA. SAP HANA on HP Converged Infrastructure, the two companies’ new big ...
How Secure is the Personal Cloud? Apple, Dropbox #FAIL
Some pretty major security concerns have been circling the cloud these past couple of months, and now Dropbox also got caught up in the loop. Christopher Soghoian, a researcher at the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University, claims that Dropbox has some serious privacy issues concerning user data, and asked the FCC to ...
This Week in the Cloud: Open Source Trends from Major Players
The cloud and big data are on a collision course, and that’s exactly what EMC World 2011 was all about. Open-source is a particularly hot topic these days, and alongside all the Greenplum developments and Hadoop launches, Rackspace has been benefiting from this accelerating market. The managed hosting provider has a very firm position in ...