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AppSense announced today that it has integrated its User Virtualization Platform with the Citrix Cortex Cloud Control Panel, now known as the CloudPortal Services Manager. The goal is to deliver customers a better interface to manage their VDI infrastructure, with an expanded …
Fusion-io Hires New Product Development Head
Storage startup Fusion-io apparently hired IT veteran Woody Hutsell as its new director of product management. Hutsell comes to Fusion-io from data storage firm Vion, where he served as an application acceleration practice director and an accounting executive since October 2010. Prior …
China Takes the Heat for Latest Japanese Government, Defense Cyberattacks
Recently an unusually large number of hacking incidents were unrecovered by seemingly bigger and bigger targets: companies, defense contractors, and now the Japanese government. This time however the attack has been traced back to a server in China, the country that is …
AppSense’s Latest Partner Program Builds VDI Ecosystem
VDI firm AppSense announced its latest partner program, dubbed the AppSense Affinity Partner Program, which is designed for partners within the company’s ecosystem that are working on user virtualization initiatives powered by AppSense technology. David Roussain, vice president of strategic alliances and …
Fusion-io Shares Surge as Barron’s Sees Positive Outlook
Steve Wozniak’s startup Fusion-io has stirred quite a fuss in the IT world with its flash-based storage acceleration technology, and the same can be said of the stock market. The company had a very successful IPO earlier this year, and it has …
Juniper, HTC Eye Asian Markets Despite Shrinking Profits
Kevin Johnson, the chief executive of networking solutions maker Juniper Networks, revealed that the firm is considering some acquisitions in Asia this year to beef up its mobile and cloud portfolio. “Certainly if there are interesting opportunities that have strategic alignment with what …
Nutanix Closes $25 Million Round from Khosla Ventures
Nutanix closed off a $25 million funding round led by investment firm Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing backers Lightspeed Venture Partners and Blumberg Capital. The datacenter virtualization startup is one of the first to be funded by Khosla Ventures IV, the …
Jaspersoft and IBM Integrate Big Data Offerings around Hadoop
BI software maker Jaspersoft and IBM plan on offering a joint analytics solution to customers that are looking to extract value from their data. IBM will integrate its InfoSphere Big Insights software with Jaspersoft’s business intelligence suite as a part of an …
SAP Adds New Exec to Boost Big Data, Cloud Strategy
Business software maker SAP has embarked on several ventures to strengthen its cloud and big data portfolio, and the company is pushing through with this approach. Alongside a couple of new developments in recent weeks, SAP has appointed Michael Naimoli as the new head …
EMC Sees Record Earnings, Gives Funds to Charity
Storage solutions vendor EMC reported positive results for the third quarter of 2011. The company showed 18 percent year-over-year revenue growth reaching $4.98 billion, 54 percent ($2.7 billion) of which came from U.S. sales. Its virtualization arm VMware saw 32 percent growth-year-over …