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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 ...
HotLink Boosts VMware for Virtualized Deployments
HotLink announced version 1.2 of its SuperVISOR software, a solution that enables customers to use VMware vCenter in order to manage cross-platform virtualized environments. It supports Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The latest release features three notable enhancements. SuperVISOR has been extended to the networking layer for one thing; allowing users to provision ...
Big Data Predicts the Weather: Green Tech Goes Open Source
Pattern Energy Group, which is currently working on setting up the largest wind energy project in Chile, is using Gluster software to power its in-house weather analytics. Red Hat acquired Gluster a few months ago and now offers the firm’s open storage management platform under the Red Hat Storage title. Pattern relies on big data ...
Storage Wars Pt. 2: Converged Infrastructure Requires a Strong Sales Channel
The second Storage Wars post by Wikibon looks into the industry’s reaction to VCE, the joint effort that provides the Vblock converged infrastructure solution –it’s a combination of EMC, Cisco and VMware technology. Vblock is leading the charge with a capacity to scale up to tens of thousands of VMs, and other vendors are closing ...
IBM Backup Partner Adopts Fusion-io Technology
Front-safe, IBM’s Denmark 2010 Cloud Partner of the Year, integrated Big Blue’s High IOPS Adapters into its Tivoli Storage Manager offering. The adapters are based on Fusion-io’s ioMemory. Front-safe delivers TSM as a cloud-based solution designed for SMBs. The company says its platform automates backup and recovery processes while providing a BI interface for reporting and invoicing. ...
Cisco Insider: Yahoo! Board Members Reelected, Q3 Lobby Spending Up
Cisco had a couple of notable updates in the past day or so. Somewhat surprisingly, Cisco shareholders decided to keep former Yahoo! chief executives Carol Bartz and Jerry Yang on the company’s board. Some have raised concerns regarding the board members’ salary in relation to their position. “Two former Yahoo CEOs were up for reelection as Cisco board members and despite their ...
Apple’s Interest in Anobit Boosts Flash Storage Talk
Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli flash solutions maker Anobit for a sum ranging between $400 and 500 million. Anobit offers a chip that boosts flash drive performance via signal processing. Apple doesn’t usually acquire hardware companies, but buying Anobit is essential to further round out its ecosystem. Among Anobit’s clients is Hyni, ...
Hewlett-Packard’s Legal Chief Latest to Jump Ship
HP’s general counsel Michael Holston has left the company to pursue other opportunities, according to company officials. Fenwick & West LLP partner David Healy is serving as interim counsel until a replacement will be found. Holston has been serving as the electronics maker’s head of legal affairs since 2007, and the timing of his resignation ...