Box Announces Tablet-Optimized Android and PlayBook App
Cloud storage service Box launched two new apps today: one is a tablet-optimized Android app that will replace the company’s old one and scale the view based on a user’s device, and the second…
OpenLogic Gets PaaS Savvy with CloudSwing
Open-source software developer OpenLogic announced a brand new offering today, called CloudSwing. The open-source PaaS takes a different approach than other products, and lets users customize and change the standard application stacks for the…
VMware Integrates RabbitMQ Messaging System with Cloud Foundry
VMware has integrated RabbitMQ with Cloud Foundry, its open-source beta PaaS offering that competes with the Google App Engine, Microsoft Azure and other offerings. RabbitMQ is an also open messaging system that was originally…
Cisco Q3: A “Little Bit” Better than Last Quarter
Cisco held its earnings call yesterday and it seems that, at least on the short-run, its restructuring efforts are starting to pay off. The networking giant managed to beat analysts’ average expectation of 38…
There is No Big Data without the Companies Leveraging It
O’Reilly’s Alistair Croll wrote a piece discussing something data scientists everywhere seem to agree with: large companies are not doing enough with their stockpile of data–not by a long shot. The reason, according to…
Citrix Acquires RingCube to Personalize Virtual Desktops
Today Citrix announced the acquisition of RingCube for an undisclosed amount, a company that offers a virtual desktop customization and management platform. In a release Citrix explained how RightCube eliminates what it called the…
SAP Looking to Expand in the Chinese Market
Business software maker SAP is drastically expanding by launching new initiatives and heading overseas, with China being one of the most important destinations on the list. The company has been seeing growth in the Asia…
Big Data, Hadoop Seep Into More Business, Services
There have been some notable highlights from the data analytics industry bubbling up this week, both from big, and relatively small players alike. The first update comes from EMC, one of the many companies…
EMC’s Newest Version of AutoSwap for Data Recovery
Storage giant EMC unveiled the latest version of its AutoSwap data recovery and protection software at the SHARE mainframe user event in Orlando today. The updated offering now comes with several major improvements, starting with…
Skytap’s New Cloud Orchestration Features
Cloud automation service provider Skytap announced the addition of two new cloud orchestration and configuration routing features to its Skytap Cloud lab manager today, with an aim of pushing up it a notch ahead…