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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 ...
SAP Reports Surge in Q4 Demand for Analytics, Cloud and Mobile
This morning SAP disclosed preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31. The business software maker saw sales increase by 21 percent year-over-year to €5 billion, or $6.65 billion, marking the 12th consecutive quarter of double digit revenue growth. SAP credits its strong financial performance to better-than-expected results in the EMEA and AJP ...
Puppet Labs Raises $30M from VMware
Puppet Labs, a maker of data center automation software, announced that VMware bought a $30 million stake in the company. The investment will be used to strengthen the strategic alliance between the two firms. Puppet Labs raised $46 million to date from VMware, Google Ventures, Cisco, Kleiner Perkins and several other big name venture capitalists. ...
Nimbus Joins the Hypergrowth Club
Nimbus is the third startup to have announced triple-digit gains within past week. The company, which produces speedy flash storage systems for cloud applications and databases, reported a 415 percent year-over-year sales increase in 2012. “We are delighted to have achieved this tremendous milestone,” stated Thomas Isakovich, CEO and founder of Nimbus Data. “Shipping over a petabyte of ...
Panorama9 Humanizes Cloud Automation Platform
Panorama9, a cloud-based IT management platform, is adding the human touch to its toolkit. Today brings the introduction of something called Perfect Pager, a new alert system that extends the email and text notification capabilities that the company has already had in place. From now on, whenever a serious problem rears its head in a client environment, ...
Whiptail’s Disruptive Flash Solution Fares Well in the Enterprise
Data storage startup Whiptail says that its income tripled last year thanks to 130 new enterprise customers. The company makes power-efficient flash storage arrays that offer both speed and significantly less overhead. “Predictions for the demise of traditional rotational storage arrays and hard disk drives (HDD) are becoming more frequent as flash vendors continue to ...
Dell Says BYOD is Still Relevant, Nevermind Dell Can’t Conquer the Trend
According to a recent study commissioned by Dell Quest, allowing workers to bring their mobile devices to work improves productivity and customer response times. The full report by Vanson Bourne is available here. About 70 percent of the 1,500 IT pros who participated in the survey believe that a BYOD policy can have a direct ...
Hortonworks Unveils Desktop Version of Hadoop, Expedites Automation
Hortonworks launched a new trial version of Hadoop that enables users to run the analytics engine on a desktop with minimal setup. It’s infinitely more accessible than downloading and deploying the Apache versions of these projects. Marketing director Cheryl Custer explained the purpose behind the new solution, dubbed Hortonworks Sandbox, in a blog post she ...