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New Backup Solution from Coraid and Veeam
Coraid formed a technology alliance with Veeam to run the latter’s backup software on its EthernetDrive SAN storage. “Server virtualization drives dramatic changes in storage requirements, forcing companies to think carefully about their architecture and the ROI of legacy storage networks,” said Carl Wright, executive vice president of worldwide sales and business development at Coraid. “The ...
Big Data Winning: R Analytics Contest Seeks Innovative Apps
Big data has spawned a new era of innovation, and as the enterprise finds more ways to slot big data analytics into their business needs, more products emerge for implementation. To uncover the potential behind the latest big data trends, Revolution Analytics held a little contest, announcing the winners of its first “Applications of R in Business” competition. ...
Joyent’s Jason Hoffman Talks Recent Funding, Node.js at theCube
We’ve been broadcasting live from Joyent’s first 2012 NodeSummit in San Francisco, and our own John Furrier and Alex Williams caught up with company founder and CTO Jason Hoffman to discuss everything Node.js. The interview went into second gear after Hoffman provided a quick run-down of his company’s eight-year history. They started out as what he ...
Todd Papaioannu of Battery Ventures Discusses Node.js Trends, Stealth Startup
Node.js is the big focus of this week’s NodeSummit, and executives and pundits from all over the industry are participating. One of them is Todd Papaioannu, a former Yahoo big data executive, who’s gotten himself involved with the VC community, and now with Joyent’s open-source programming language. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier interviewed him in theCube ...
HP Storage Gets the Grade: Targets Education Sector
HP announced that California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) has made a purchase of HP P6000 Enterprise Virtual Arrayspower its datacenter, which empowers over 5,000 students and faculty. As a part of the transaction Hewlett-Packard sold its 100,00th EVA unit, a milestone the hardware giant achieved in a little over 10 years. CSUMB used an older version ...
VMware Opens Virtualization Marketplace after Stellar Q4
VMware’s been on a tear lately, unveiling the new Solution Exchange, an online virtualization and cloud solutions marketplace. It’s a hub where customers, partners and developers can converge, simplifying the process around choosing business solutions. The new Marketplace centralizes efforts around a self-service portal, extending VMware’s resources to a broader audience that may be seeking ...
Appcelerator Hires Gartner Analyst to Boost Mobile Angle
Mobile development platform provider Appcelerator has hired Michael King to fulfill a couple of significant responsibilities in the company, both of which will serve the purpose of boosting Appcelerator’s position in the mobile universe. King spent the last decade or so working for research firm Gartner, where he was one of the chief contributors to its ...
Cisco Expands Products, Marketing Amidst Growing Competition
Networking gear maker Cisco is taking some heat from the growing lineup of solutions released by competing vendors in its industry. IBM and NEC just introduced a new Open Flow-based solution that caters to a very wide audience, and Juniper has recently given its worldwide sales channel a major boost. Now, Cisco is firing back ...
EMC Reports Q4 Results, Tucci to Remain CEO a While Longer
Storage behemoth EMC reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012, beating analysts’ expectations and marking some noteworthy achievements to boot. EMC said it made a profit of $832 million or 38 cents a share, compared to 29 a share and $628.6 million throughout same period last year. Revenue was also up ...
IBM, NEC Deliver New Open Flow Offering
IBM and NEC debuted a new offering that integrated technology from both companies to create what GigaOm has referred to as a controller-and-switch combo. The solution is based on Open Flow, the Stanford-developed open-source protocol that can be used to power software-defined networks. NEC’s controller and IBM’s switch have been integrated to enable enterprises to ...