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Weekly Cloud Review: From APIs to Data Centers
Developers are a driving force behind the rapid adoption of cloud computing in the enterprise. For companies like Axway, they represent a massive market opportunity that simply can’t be ignored. The Phoenix, Arizona-based cloud solutions provider kicked off the week by pulling the curtains back on a new release of its API management platform. Version ...
Icahn Drops Out of Dell Bidding War
Activist investor Carl Icahn has decided to end his pursuit of PC maker Dell after a 14-month struggle to thwart a buyout offer from founder Michael Dell and his ally, the investment firm Silver Lake Partners. The Dell camp is looking to privatize the company as part of an ambitious plan to shift its focus ...
Virident’s Ken Grohe Discusses the Flash Transformation #VMworld
We’re taking this opportunity to recap some of the wise words spoken by Ken Grohe, the vice president of worldwide customer operations for Virident Systems, who stopped by theCube at VMworld 2013 to share his take on the rapid adoption of PCIe flash beyond the realm of web-scale giants. Of recent interest on Virident is the ...
Western Digital Picks Up Virident for $685 Million
Western Digital, one of the last remaining big fish in the shrinking pond that is the traditional disk market, has agreed to acquire Virident Systems for $685 million. The Milpitas, California-based firm makes PCIe flash cards that eliminate network latency and provide users with faster access to their data. Under the agreement, Virident will become ...
Fusion-io’s Lee Caswell on the Intersection of Flash and Virtualization
Lee Caswell, the vice president of virtualization for Fusion-io’s Production Group, stopped by theCube during the recently concluded VMworld 2013 conference to share his unique perspective on the disruptive force of flash. From a customer standpoint, solid-state memory represents a means to accelerate mission-critical workloads that could not be effectively virtualized before. Mission-critical applications stand ...
VMworld: User Expectations Drive Virtualized Innovation
SiliconANGLE theCube hosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick wrapped up the third day of VMworld 2013 with an in-depth review of VMware’s role in the user-led transformation of IT. The virtualization giant is trying to help businesses move at the speed of business rather than the speed of infrastructure, Jeff says. John draws comparisons between ...
Tableau and Syncsort Partner to Collapse Data Silos into Hadoop
Tableau and Syncsort announced this week that they have entered a strategic partnership to make siloed information more consumable for data-driven enterprises. Syncsort sells ETL software that helps organizations import data from mainframes and other legacy platforms into Hadoop. Tableau in turn offers analytics and visualization solutions that provide business users with direct access to ...
Microsoft Expands Finland Footprint with $250M Data Center
Microsoft’s investment in Finland will go beyond the $7.2 billion it’s shelling out for Nokia’s mobile and services group, the company revealed this week. Steve Ballmer’s firm has put aside $250 million for a new Nordic data center that will provide additional capacity for Xbox and Windows Azure users. “Microsoft also announced that it has ...
Weekly Security Review: Anonymous, Snowden Strike Again
The cybersecurity landscape changes with every new leak and attack. This week Anonymous exposed members of the notorious Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) after the latter defaced Marines.com, and AlienVault raised new funding for its crowd-powered security platform. In related news, whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA has inserted backdoors into mainstream encryption solutions. The ...
Internet of Things Review: Microsoft Buys Nokia, Google Unleashes Android 5
It’s been an eventful week for the Internet of Things. Ubitus partnered with LG to launch its cloud gaming platform in the U.S, GameBrain announced a new development environment for mobile game creators, and Microsoft rattled the market by acquiring Nokia. Google also stirred some buzz after Sundar Pichai, the head of Android and Chrome ...