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YouSendIt and Other Top iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps
YouSendIt launched its iPad and Android app this week, making its cloud-based sharing and collaboration features available to tablet, along with other platforms. it’s a big step for YouSendIt as it expands its services as well as its business model. For many companies leveraging cloud storage these days, mobile’s been a great avenue to access ...
This Week in Cloud: PaaS, Virtualization Leading Trends
This week platform services were a major highlight, thanks to a few interesting developments surfaced from a number of the more high-ranking cloud vendors. For starters, Microsoft upgraded Azure with the addition of Node.js support, and rolled out the early product of a previously announced partnership with HortonWorks. Select developers have access to a preview of ...
Xeround Changes Agenda after $9M in Funding
Xeround is realizing its shift of focus from database management to offering public cloud database services now that it has raised $9 million in its third round of funding. Existing investors Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership as well as Benchmark Capital and Giza Venture Capital contributed to the round. Xeround’s transition was first conceived two years ...
IBM Builds Out Cloud Analytics with Latest Buy
IBM is expanding its Smart Cloud commerce initiative – and its analytics portfolio as a whole by doing a lot of M&E. Yesterday the company announced that it has acquired Emptoris for an undisclosed amount. The Burlington, Mass-based Emptoris provides cloud and on-premise software that helps companies understand how they performance in terms of supply ...
HP Cuts Execs’ Exit Packs
HP’s shareholders have expressed concern about the compensation the two previous CEOs received after leaving the company. Leo Apotheker received 156, 000 shares of restricted stock worth about $3.6 million at the time, and prior to that Mark Hurd received much more– a decision that in turn resulted in several on-going investor lawsuits. This week ...
Storage Wars Part 3: How is HP Doing with 3PAR?
The continuation of Wikibon’s Storage Wars series (see here for Part 1 and Part 2) looks into how Hewlett-Packard managed to integrate 3PAR into the company in relation to today’s storage market. Overall, they’ve done a pretty good job. Wikibon covered six areas where it’s essential for HP to invest in to maintain its current position ...
Microsoft Takes its Smartphone Goals to the Outer Limit
Microsoft has gotten itself head-deep into the mobile industry with Windows Phone 7, and perhaps to a broader extent with the upcoming Windows 8 due sometime in 2012. In addition the company made some of its apps available for Android and iOS, a tactic that GigaOM’s James Kendrick believes extends beyond plain competiveness. Kendrick’s theory ...
Broadcom Expands to Computer Accessories, Sees Growth in Mobile
Broadcom is anxious to catch up with Cisco and Juniper Networks in certain areas, which own the vast majority of market share in the networking universe. The company is seeing steady growth, and its latest product is bound to attract some addition attention in the consumer space. The newly announced Broadcom BCM20730 65 nm low-power ...
EMC’s Got a Hybrid Analytics Platform, Too
EMC is now the second big vendor that has an analytics platform for analyzing both structured and unstructured data, following a Thursday announcement. The upcoming Unified Analytics Platform is a combination of technology from Greenplum and MapR, a Hadoop distributor that already has a strong partnership with EMC. UAP combines the EMC Greenplum database with ...
Cloud Foundry Gets .NET Support Thanks to Tier 3
Public cloud provider Tier 3 released Iron Foundry, an open distribution of VMware’s Cloud Foundry. The solution makes the latest available to the very large demographic of developers working on .NET applications, adding one of the more widely used frameworks to the existing list of supported platforms. Among those are Spring for Java, Nod.js, Sinatra ...