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WWDC 2011: Past, Present and What to Expect
Apple is holding the annual 2011 World Wide Developers Conference, and rumors are circling about the new products and expectations we may have for the launch event. Before we delve into that though, we can recap on some Apple’s most significant announcements this past year. The first one from early 2011 is probably the one ...
VMware Tries to Catch up with Citrix in VDI
Citrix Systems has managed to position itself quite well in the VDI market to date, gaining a sizable customer base while doing so. VMware is taking a shot at Citrix’s market share, though that may prove to be difficult. In the past few months, VMware has made a number of acquisitions to support its VDI ...
Citrix Founder Secures $8.5 for Upcoming “Content Virtualization” Platform
Boca-Raton, Fla.-based startup VirtualWorks Group, led by Citrix Systems founder Ed Iacobucci, announced that it has raised $8.5 million in a first round of funding from Florida’s New World Angels. Skyway Capital Partners LLC served as financial advisor to VirtualWorks. The capital will be used to help “execute on the company’s vision and strategy,” which ...
Infographic: The Transformation of HP
Hewlett-Packard is going through a hardware-to-software transformation under head Leo Apotheker, who has been serving as chief executive for less than a year. The company needs to tackle a number of factors if it wants to be successful with its massive venture, including the need to further grow and develop its capitalization of the software ...
Cisco’s Restructuring Involves Global & Financial Expansion, and Grilled Cheese
Cisco has not been doing too well in the last four quarters, and now that its stock slid by over 30 percent, CEO John Chambers is making some changes. In addition to eliminating the slow council-based management mechanism it once used, Cisco is also reshaping its outbound strategy. The company is now focusing more on ...
HP Takes Software Angle to New Heights: webOS Everywhere
Leo Apotheker, CEO of Hewlett-Packard for less than a year now, spoke at the D9 conference. He discussed many things, including webOS, and some of his company’s plans in the consumer and non-consumer markets. Right at the start of his interview with AllThingD’s Walt Mossberg, Apotheker said that HP is looking to “position itself at ...
Permabit Adds 4 New Patents to Existing Portfolio
OEM embedded data storage company Permabit announced on the company blog that it has been awarded four new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office, adding up to a patent portfolio size of 23 in data deduplication, protection and archiving as well cloud storage. “We have invested heavily in research and development over the ...
Nirvanix Accelerating Private Cloud Adoption Faster than Traditional Players
The private cloud has gained a lot of interest throughout the past few years, and most CIOs recognize the value of such a deployed. A private cloud offers several benefits traditional IT infrastructure doesn’t, such as greater cost-efficiency, the ability to migrate data between on-site and off-site locations safely, access to a secure multi-tenant public ...
Oracle Donates OpenOffice.org to Apache Foundation
Oracle has passed control of the OpenOffice.org code base to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator project. OpenOffice.org is Microsoft Office’s main competitor, and is one of the most popular productivity software products on the market. “Donating OpenOffice.org to Apache gives this popular consumer software a mature, open, and well established infrastructure to continue well into ...
HP Still Believes in webOS, Takes Apple Approach to Hardware & Software
Hewlett-Packard is currently reshaping itself into a more software-oriented company. Speaking at the D9 conference today, chief executive Leo Apotheker offered a glimpse into HP’s plans for webOS. It seems to be following the same course Apple is – providing full-bundle consumer products, including hardware and software – an end-to-end ecosystem. “We want to create ...