Maria Deutscher
Latest from Maria Deutscher
Dell Debuts New Backup, Storage Offerings
Hardware maker Dell announced two new storage products: a disk-based deduplication appliance that’s the first of its kind offered by the company, and version 6.0 of Compellent Storage Center. The DR4000 backup appliance used data compression tech from the now Dell-owned Ocarina to achieve a data reduction ratio of up to 15:1. The product is ...
ActiveState’s Stackato Now Supports HP Cloud Services
Stackato, the open-source private PaaS based on VMware’s Cloud Foundry, can now be deployed on HP Cloud Services. The latter is a cloud-powered platform designed for the enterprise, and is currently in private beta. Stackato itself left that stage and rolled out into public beta in November. ActiveState’s agenda with Stackato is customization: to be ...
Hewlett-Packard vs Oracle, European Edition
HP and Oracle have extended their legal clash to Europe, now that authorities are investigating accusations by the former claiming that the software giant is using discriminatory practices on licensing and support for Intel-based offerings. “The competition authority said it opened a probe to examine Hewlett-Packard’s July complaint that Oracle’s refusal to support Intel’s Itanium ...
EMC Preps for Q4 Call, Fiscal Performance for 2011
Storage giant EMC nnounced that will be holding its fourth quarter earnings call on January 24, where it will also compose a report covering its fiscal performance throughout 2011. And it’s probably safe to say is that the latter figures won’t disappoint investors: EMC has hit the mark for the last three quarters. The company’s ...
Cisco Rubs it in for Juniper, Says Market is OK
Cisco has commented on Juniper’s decline in the company’s fourth fiscal quarter, as well as its competitor’s claim that it was a result of lowered demand in the U.S router market. Talking at CES, Marthin De Beer, the head of Cisco’s video and collaboration unit, said he is convinced that there isn’t a market-wide change ...
Open-Source Java is Stronger than Ever [Infographic]
Cloud app monitoring provider New Relic released a short and succinct infographic (see below) that visualizes the success of open-source Java solutions, and compares it with the market share of proprietary alternatives. It seems as if these five open source startups are not the only ones that will see additional growth this year. The data ...
Clearspring Finds New Sales Head as Executive Shuffle Continues
Clearspring, the operator of the AddThis social sharing and data analytics platform, hired a new executive to boost revenue generation. Lee Hoffman is now the senior vice president of sales for the company, according to an announcement that went public on Tuesday. Hoffman has 15 years of experience managing advertising and other marketing initiatives for various firms, ...
Teradici and TI Demo VDI Solution in the Social Enterprise Era
Desktop virtualization solutions maker Teradici and chipmaker Texas Instruments will be showcasing their technology in a joint booth this week at CES 2012 in Las Vegas. In the TI Wireless booth, North Hall, MR N116, the two companies will demonstrate how the Teradici PCoIP protocol runs VMware View on the OMAP4460 mobile chip by Texas ...
IBM Will Make More Chips at $5BN Plant
IBM released a set of three white papers covering different silicon alternatives, and even an already developed prototype not too long ago. Big Blue hopes to get an edge during a time when silicon will no longer be able to accommodate Moore’s law, but for now, it still retains some confidence in the 14th element. ...
Cisco Hasn’t Given up on Video Yet, Launches New Products at CES
Earlier this month networking giant Cisco pulled the plug on umi, the company’s somewhat overpriced line of video teleconferencing set-tops. It was designed for the use of both consumer and business users, which may have contributed to its downfall, and Cisco is not repeating the same mistake again. As a part of a much broader ...