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Cisco Actively Buying Enterprise Startups, Backs Away from Consumer Market
Cisco just acquired Cognitive Security for an undisclosed sum. The Prague-based startup makes networking monitoring software that analyzes big data to identify potential threats. Cisco Head of Corporate Business Development Hilton Romanski announced the news in a statement and commented that “Cognitive Security’s technology identifies and detects security anomalies, and when coupled with the network ...
WANdisco Teams with Hortonworks to Eliminate Hadoop SPOF
WANdisco joined the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program to help customers achieve maximum uptime in their Hadoop deployment. The Silicon Valley-based developer offers replication software that syncs servers in real time to make sure settings and data are available, even in the case of a failure. The platform works across both local area networks and WANS ...
Disappointing Outlook from VMware Triggers Investor Panic
VMware reported record performance in the fourth quarter of 2012, but a pessimistic guidance drove down its stock by as much as 22.4 percent on Tuesday. The virtualization vendor said that it made a net profit of $206 million in Q4, an increase from the $200 million profit it posted a year earlier. Sales were ...
EMC-Greenplum Unifies Big Data Worlds for IT + Scientists Alike
EMC is introducing a new big data appliance that is capable of processing both structured and unstructured workloads, truly taking advantage of some of Greenplum’s latest developments. The EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance, abbreviated DCA, integrates several different technologies to deliver the functionality that the storage vendor is touting. The solution includes Greenplum’s MPP database ...
Hortonworks Support of OpenStack Could Boost Charisma Points
Hortonworks has finally joined the OpenStack Foundation, the independent non-profit that was spun off from its parent initiative at Rackspace in 2012. It’s not entirely surprising to see Hortonworks’ support of OpenStack, which has gained quite a number of high profile fans and contributors from the very beginning. As Hortonworks comes into its own, being ...
Seagate-Virident Partnership a Necessary Step Forward, says Wikibon Analyst
Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer discussed Seagate’s $40 million investment in Virident and the alliance that has emerged from the move on this morning’s NewsDesk program with Kristin Feledy (full video below). Floyer says that this update comes as a very big surprise to him, considering the background of the two companies: Seagate is a ...
Broadcom Beats the Street after Thrilling CES Demonstrations
Broadcom reported financial results for the fourth quarter of 2012 yesterday, beating the Street’s estimates on all counts. The networking semiconductor vendor reported earnings of $462 million or 76 cents per share versus a profit of $254 million in the same period 12 months ago – an 81.89 percent year over year increase. Analysts predicted ...
DataGravity Raises $30M to Make Magic of NetApp, EMC + EqualLogic Smarts
DataGravity is a stealth startup that’s trying to make it easier for users to extract the best insight from raw data. The company is keeping a tight lid on the project, but it’s clearly something big, based on the sheer amount of funding it’s raised to date. This morning, the New Hampshire-based firm announced a ...
Exclusive: FalconStor Reportedly Up for Grabs – But Who’s Buying?
A rumor is circling Wall Street that FalconStor is pursuing opportunities to get acquired, according to our sources. But there is no word on who may be represented on the other side of the negotiations table. That hasn’t stopped anyone from speculating, though. FalconStor, a maker of data protection software for data centers, could be ...
FalconStor CEO Pursues Disruptive Vision of Data Protection Services
FalconStor chief executive Jim McNeil revealed his ambitions to replicate Apple’s Time Machine in the data center during a 2012 interview at research firm Wikibon’s headquarters, where the concept was originally discussed several years earlier. In the session, the CEO spoke of the rise of data protection as a service: businesses abandoning the traditional one-size-fits ...