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Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners upped their offer for Dell last week in an attempt to persuade the company’s special committee to change investor voting rules. The founder hopes to tip the balance in his favor by reducing the threshold requirement …
Android, China Lead the Mobile Market
What do Google and China have in common (besides a poor track record in data privacy)? They’re both leading the mobile space. Android devices shipped with over half the smartphones sold in the quarter ending in June 2013, a period during which …
QLogic Sees 13.2% Revenue Decline in First Quarter
QLogic may be edging closer to a turnaround, but its latest earnings showed few signs of recovery. The Aliso Viejo, California-based supplier of data center networking equipment reported first quarter sales of $113.1 million, down 13.2 percent from the same period last …
Cisco, NetApp Bolster FlexPod Lineup with Hadoop-based Configurations
Converged infrastructure is on the rise, and so is Big Data analytics. Cisco and long time ally NetApp put two and two together and expanded their jointly developed FlexPod lineup with two cutting edge Hadoop appliances. The newly announced FlexPod Select Series …
App Annie Opens Flagship Analytics Platform for Enterprise Users
App Annie, the highly successful app analytics startup, just released the latest version of its flagship offering. The new edition introduces several features, including a mobile app that lets users to keep track of their apps’ performance on the go. The App …
GridGain Raises $10 Million for In-Memory Analytics
GridGain, a Foster City, CA.-based distributed computing firm, just received $10 million in Series B financing from Almaz Capital and existing investor RTP Ventures. The round brings the company’s total funding to $12 million. GridGain sells a Java-based in-memory analytics solution for …
Michael Dell Sweetens the Pot for Shareholders
Michael Dell rescheduled the much anticipated shareholder vote on his company’s future for the second time this month in an effort to increase support for his modestly sweetened buyout offer. Dell and partner Silver Lake Partners bumped their bid by 10 cents …
IBM’s New Linux Box Combines the Best of Watson + Open Source
IBM just pulled the curtains back on the PowerLinux 7R4, an open system that sports a scaled-down version of Watson’s brain. The 7R4 is a four socket, 32 core server designed for analytics, cognitive computing, web-scale applications and other CPU-intensive workloads that …
Weekly Big Data Review: SQL Alternatives are All the Rage
This past week featured a number of Big Data developments. Cloudera released an open-source authentication engine for Hadoop, Google upgraded its Cloud Platform with new data management capabilities, and DataStax raised $45 million in funding to accelerate Cassandra development. EnterpriseDB also put …
VMware Comfortably Beats Analysts’ Q2 Expectations
Virtualization may be becoming increasingly commoditized as vendors look to differentiate with services and management functionality, but this trend didn’t stop VMware from raking in a handsome profit this past quarter. On Tuesday, the majority-owned EMC subsidiary reported second quarter earnings of …