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Pivotal, the open cloud venture that spun off EMC and VMware last year, has made its first acquisition this week in a milestone move to enter the mobile scene. The firm announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to buy …
NaviSite Revamps DaaS Offering
NaviSite, a provider of enterprise-grade cloud hosting and application management services, has enhanced its desktop-as-a-service offering to accommodate businesses that don’t have the budget for a dedicated environment. With the addition of remote desktop services and a remote application delivery tool, the …
HP Doubles Down on Green Data Center with New Case Studies, Solutions
Hot on the heels of IBM and Dell, Hewlett Packard is developing new technologies to help organizations build more more energy efficient data centers. In one of its latest green initiatives, the company teamed up with Intel and the National Renewable Energy …
SAP Launches $650 Million Startup Fund
The frontier of Big Data innovation, startups have become a key focus for business intelligence giant SAP. The company’s independent investment arm recently launched a $650 million direct investment fund, SAP Ventures Fund II, which will focus on late stage technology companies. …
ScaleOut Unveils Real Time In-Memory Analytics Engine
ScaleOut Software has revamped its in-memory data grid platform to deliver a twentyfold increase in MapReduce performance while eliminating some of the costs associated with traditional Hadoop clusters. The newly launched hServer V2 is specifically geared toward ad hoc analysis of operational …
Numerify Raises $8M for Cloud BI
Long on ambition but short on detail, Numerify has set out to propel traditional business intelligence into the cloud analytics era. Founded by BI veterans from Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, MicroStrategy and Hyperion, the stealth startup is developing a solution that integrates data …
Netskope Raises $21M Out of Stealth : Analytics to Tackle Shadow IT
Enterprise users are bypassing the IT department in favor of more accessible cloud services that offer convenient solutions to specific business problems. Known as shadow IT, this growing phenomenon is making it increasingly difficult for large organizations to effectively maintain security and …
Red Hat Updates RHEL 5 with Expanded Third Party Support
Reiterating its commitment to support Linux distributions for at least 10 years, Red Hat has rolled out a new version of Enterprise Linux 5. First released in 2007, the operating system will receive regular updates through March 31, 2017 and until 2020 …
Cisco Partners with PT to Expand Smart Cities Initiative into New Market
IBM and Cisco have a lot in common. Besides dominating their respective markets, the tech juggernauts are also both working to make smart cities a reality across the globe. Just this week, the networking giant entered into a strategic partnership with Portugal …
Atlassian Introduces Integrated Help Desk Solution for JIRA
Atlassian is complementing its widely-used issue tracking platform with a help desk tool that aims to “improve operational efficiency, reduce overall time to resolution and increase customer satisfaction.” The newly launched JIRA Service Desk builds on the workflow and tracking capabilities available …