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QLogic’s Quarterly Results do not Disappoint
Ahead of QLogic’s earnings call three months ago, I wrote about the company’s slacking financial performance and the market’s rather surprising response. The networking equipment maker posted major declines for several consecutive quarters, but many analysts stuck with their view that the firm’s strong OEM relations will be sufficient to reverse the downward trend. QLogic’s ...
Hadoop for Desktop, SAP Earnings Top this Week’s Big Data Roundup
This week Hortonworks introduced a new distribution option for Hadoop, while SAP updates us on the progress it’s made with HANA in the past three months. MapR also grabbed a headline after publishing a list of its top customer wins from 2012. Starting with the aYahoo spin off Hortonworks, on Tuesday the big data startup ...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Wants to Get Cozy with Major Mobile Players
Marissa Mayer, a former Googler who currently serves as the chief executive officer of Yahoo, gave a very insightful interview to Bloomberg Television at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Ahead of Yahoo’s earnings call next week, the new CEO covered her goals for the company and addressed the key technological trends that impact Yahoo ...
SAP Software Shows Off NFL Data as the Super Bowl Brings Attention to Sports Analytics
SAP’s latest side-project is the NFL.com Fantasy Player of the Year competition, an online dashboard that makes use of the company’s analytics technology to filter and display the stats of the league’s top players. “Fantasy football fans love stats almost as much as watching the action on the field,” said Jonathan Becher, chief marketing officer at ...
Microsoft Earnings Reflect Rise in Demand for Tablets
Microsoft’s bottom line took a hit in the fourth quarter of 2012, but the company gained in core areas, according to the financial results that the software maker disclosed yesterday. Microsoft’s net income dropped nearly four percent to $6.38 billion, or 76 a shares, from the $6.62 billion or 78 cents it delivered a year ...
Cisco Buys Mobile Software Infrastructure Startup for $475M – Is This SDN for Mobile Networks?
Cisco shelled out nearly half a billion dollars for Intucell, Israeli developer that makes management software for telecommunications companies. The company lists AT&T and several other major U.S. carriers as customers. Intucell’s self-optimizing network (SON) technology prevents dropped calls in heavily populated areas by responding to traffic shifts in real-time. If too many users are ...
This Week in the Cloud: Funding, Phone Calls and Integration
This week Puppet Labs announced that it received $30 million in funding, Panorama9 introduced a new alert system for IT departments, and Nirvanix teamed up with Intel. We also learned the specs of the upcoming Xbox 720, the cloud-powered Microsoft console that will take over the living room. Data center automation specialist Puppet Labs announced ...
ServicesMesh Buys Spot on EMC Select Catalog
ServiceMesh announced that its flagship platform is available worldwide through EMC Select, a program that makes third party solution more available for customers of the storage giant. The Santa Monica-based firm shared the good news in a release that went out this week. ServiceMesh is responsible for the Agility Platform, a DevOps abstraction layer that ...
Innovative Virtualized Storage Vendor Quadruples Sales in Q4
Five months after launching its partner program, Tintri reports that it has witnessed its revenue increase by 400 percent in the Q4. The company says that 150 new enterprises signed up in the past three months, and that its hardware now powers 30,000 virtual machines worldwide. Tintri makes ‘VM-aware’ appliances, storage arrays specifically designed to ...
MapR Analyzes 90% of the Internet Population Every Day
MapR released a list of customer wins from the past 12 months, and things are looking up. The Hadoop distributor experienced a spike in demand for its analytics software last year, especially from large consumer-facing organizations. MapR says that currently 10 of the Fortune 100 are leveraging its Hadoop distribution to gain a better understanding ...