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VCE Brings Flash to Converged Infrastructure with Latest Offerings
Founded in 2009 as a joint venture between EMC, VMware and Cisco, VCE is quickly emerging as a leader in the converged infrastructure space. The vendor is now looking to accelerate its growth with new solutions for resource-intensive environments. The freshly unveiled Vblock System 340 marries XtremSW flash cache with Cisco’s B420 M3 blade servers and ...
Attunity Injects Resilience into Data Analytics with New Replication Software
Aggregating data from off-premises databases involves governance and security challenges that traditional network solutions aren’t necessarily equipped to address. Aggregation also yields latency and bandwidth constraints which can be barriers to analytics in geographically dispersed enterprises. Attunity, a Burlington, MA.-based provider of replication software, is tearing down these barriers with a new solution for large-scale ...
Life Sciences Software Company Veeva Files for IPO
After months of speculation, Veeva has finally confirmed that it’s headed for a stock market debut. The Pleasanton, California-based company hired Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank as lead underwriters, and signed up Pacific Crest Securities, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, BMO Capital Markets, and Canaccord Genuit as co-managers. Veeva is an emerging cloud service provider that ...
NetApp VP of Products Leaves for Big Data Startup
Manish Goel, the executive vice president of production operations for NetApp, is resigning effective Friday, September 20. NetApp said that the veteran executive is leaving the company to assume the role of chief executive officer for an unnamed analytics startup in the San Francisco Bay Area. Goel has handed over the reins to George Kurian, ...
Lumeta Puts its Weight Behind Juniper’s Big SDN Push
Lumeta, a privately-held provider of network discovery solutions, has joined the Juniper Networks SDN Technology Program to integrate its flagship IPsonar suite with the vendor’s newly unveiled Contrail platform. The latter offering builds on technology Juniper obtained through the 2012 acquisition of Contrail Systems to decouple network management functions from the underlying hardware. Contrail is ...
Qualaroo Brings Audience Surveys to the Mobile Web
Modern web analytics tools offer unprecedented insight into page views and visitor activity, but there are many questions that Big Data cannot yet answer. An emerging web marketing startup called Qualaroo is working to bridge this knowledge gap the old fashion way. Founded in 2012 by a group of industry veterans who “found it surprising ...
NetApp to Deliver ‘Universal Data Platform’ atop ONTAP
In a bold push to establish Data ONTAP as a common fabric for private, hybrid and public cloud environments, NetApp is introducing a new solution for migrating data between on- and off-premise infrastructure. The company’s soon-to-be-unveiled portability technology performs on-the-fly “hypervisor translation” to greatly simplify workload migration between disparate ONTAP deployments. The offering is designed ...
Internet of Things Review: Quarks and iPhones
Major technology vendors are jumping into the Internet of Things craze one after the other. Intel is going after wearable tech with new Quark processors, while Apple is trying to penetrate the low-end smartphone market with the iPhone 5c. An emerging startup called Zapier is riding this wave of adoption in a big push to ...
Weekly Security Review: Google Beefs Up Encryption, Hackers Target Media Outlets
The cat and mouse game between hackers and security experts went uninterrupted this past week. Google stepped up its efforts to better encrypt personal information, Apple pulled the curtains back on the iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner, and Echopass became the first cloud-based contact center to earn PCI Level 1 certification. In other news, NSFOCUS shed ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Doubling Down on Developers
Cloud providers are elbowing each in the race for developers’ hearts and minds. This past week Sauce Lab rolled out a major upgrade to its application testing tool, Microsoft and Amazon updated their cloud offerings, and AppDirect acquired an SaaS solutions provider called Standing Cloud. In other news, Huddle added automatic file sync to its ...