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Gartner Names Top 5 Virtualization Trends in 2012
Thomas Bittman, vice president and distinguished analyst at research firm Gartner, wrote up a list of five changes in the virtualization market trending this year. The bottom line is that there’s a lot of competition out there, and even more at stake as enterprises invest more in the cloud. VMware is now far from being ...
Truce! Microsoft and TiVo Call Off the Lawyers after Two Years
Microsoft and TiVo have announced their mutual agreement to drop patent infringement charges against each other, officially ending a dispute that has begun in 2010. The Wall Street Journal provided some of the background behind the story: “Microsoft first sued TiVo in a San Francisco federal court in 2010 as part of a broader attempt ...
Quantum’s New Cloud-based Data Protection is More Flexible
Quantum is offering up a new cloud platform that’s designed to give clients a more flexible means of backing up their data. The company already has a strong portfolio and is building on that to pump in a lot of business into the new offering, including fast restores, data reduction of up to 95 percent ...
Latest in Hadoop: MapR Extends Support, Partnerships
Commercial Hadoop distributer MapR had some big news today from the Stracture big data conference. It revealed a whole new line-up of data connectivity options that extend the range of applications and database clients running its platform can connect to. The functionality is available in multiple forms. One is an ODBC driver MapR developed in ...
Not Much Difference in Strata and Structure Conferences: It’s All about Data, Again
Hadoop can easily be named one of the fastest growing open source technologies in IT. The big data ecosystem is also growing like crazy, and the industry has been paying attention. The Strata conference was held earlier this month, an event dedicated to unstructured analytics. SiliconANGLE and Wikibon both attended the annual gathering, and in ...
ScaleXtreme Bringing Cloud Automation to iOS
ScaleXtreme is a maker of server automation software that has been very busy with R&D over the past few months. The latest update from the company addresses the mobile and general BYOD trends many of its enterprise clients have likely adopted. ScaleXtreme’s newest solution is an iPhone app that brings some of the functionality of ...
Texas School District Chooses VCE to Power Students
The Tyler Independent School District, the largest in Northeast Texas, is leveraging technology from the EMC-backed VCE to power over 27 schools–a total of about 20,000 students and faculty. “Looking to expand students’ ability to learn beyond a seven-hour school day, five days a week, Tyler ISD’s school environment needed to transform its IT infrastructure ...
Zayo Acquisitions do a Double Take: Arialink Buy Beefs Up Networking Rivalries
The networking industry’s M&A scene has been very active recently, with several major deals announced throughout the past few weeks. The Zayo Group, a fiber infrastructure solutions provider, can now account for not one but two of those items. This morning, shortly after a previous deal was revealed by the company, we learned that Zayo ...
Broadcom Makes 10th Acquisition in Israel with BroadLight Deal
Broadcom announced that it has finalized an agreement to acquire BroadLight for $230 million. The two companies share more than just similar names: both Broadcom and the Israeli-based Broadlight make chips designed for networking purposes, which is why it’s rather easy to tell how the latter’s IP will blend into the company’s existing portfolio. “BroadLight ...
Cisco’s Latest Push Addresses BYOD’s Evolution
Cisco is still very much a networking company–it’s only expanding its horizons, and is actively spilling into some of the newer segments of IT that overlap with its core market. The cloud is one example, and now there’s mobile. The Bring Your Own Device, or BYOD, trend is one of several that has been sweeping ...