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German business software maker SAP announced that is it is boosting its Southwest Asia strategy, and will be offering SAP HANA on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) server platform for customers in Malaysia. The big data analytics trend is expanding on …
NYSE Launches First Cloud Platform in Financial Sector
The New York Stock Exchange today announced the launch of a new cloud platform that lets traders lease computing power from NYSE’s new northern New Jersey locale. The platform, the first of its kind in the financial sector, was developed in a …
Metamarkets Raises $6M to Boost Ad Big Data Analytics
Metamarkets, a two year old startup that offers publishers better inside data by analyzing the huge quantities of data produced as they sell, just closed its latest round of funding. The company has secured $6 million in the round, which was led …
Juniper QFabric Simplifies Networking, Improves Security
Juniper Networks’ QFabric datacenter offering aims to simplify networks, and collapse the three core, distribution layer, and access layer with only one. The company has only managed to reduce these three layers to two so far, but according to Eric Doyle, that’s …
EMC and Cisco Launch Cloud Center in Bangalore
EMC and Cisco have reportedly launched their Cloud Experience Centres’ in Bangalore, India. The EMC Centre of Excellence and at the Cisco Globalization Centre East are located in a twin facility, and are designed to accelerate research and let Indian customers test …
FalconStor Adds Two New VPs from HP and Symantec
Cloud storage solutions provider FalconStor announced it has made some staffing changes, and hired two new VPs. The company has hired former Hewlett-Packard exec Donna Williams to serve as vice president of worldwide technical support, and former Symantec director Abbas Meghjee as …
3PAR Proving its Worth at HP in Entertainment Sector
Hewlett-Packard has been making serious pushes to expand its storage business. Both former CEO Mark Hurd and current chief executive Leo Apotheker put an emphasis on staying competitive in this market via two main approaches: R&D and acquisitions. When looking at HP’s …
SAP Investing in Online Ads, Cloud & Mobility
German business software maker SAP had two significant announcements today, starting with an investment in OpenX. SAP’s venture arm is leading a $20 million funding round in the online exchange and server service. New investors AOL Ventures, Mitsui Global Investment and Presidio …
Dell and HP Crank Up Competition with Memorial Day Deals
Long time competitors Dell and Hewlett-Packard are celebrating Memorial Day 2011 today with a long line-up of discounts. Dell will only offer its discounts today while HP is extending its own to an extra day, and as it seems, competition over consumer’s …
Cisco Reputation, Stock Take Hit while Blade Server Business Expands
Networking giant Cisco is currently a work in progress, going through an internal restructuring led by CEO John Chambers. This road however seems to be a bit bumpy, and an analysis of network scans by Dimension Data for its 2011 Network Barometer Report …