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Cisco Introduces CloudVerse, Its Unified Cloud Platform
Cisco has consolidated its data center, unified datacenter sharing and application portfolios under a new framework that is designed to solidify the company’s cloud vision from the outside. “Because of our position in the network, it’s presupposed that the strategy is there. But we wanted to publicly announce a strategy that’s backed by a belief ...
Broadcom Expands to Computer Accessories, Sees Growth in Mobile
Broadcom is working hard to catch up with Cisco and Juniper Networks, 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 additional attention in the consumer space. The newly announced Broadcom BCM20730 65 nm low-power Human Interface ...
After SAP Takeover, SuccessFactors Makes a Buy of its Own
SuccessFactors, a provider of cloud-based HR management software for enterprises, announced it acquired Jobs2Web for $110 million. The news comes about four days after it revealed it is becoming a subsidiary of business software maker SAP, as a part of a much bigger $3.4 billion transaction. SuccessFactors said that the delay was a result of ...
Microsoft Sorts through Different Markets with New Initiatives
Software giant Microsoft is anything but limited to its core OS business, and is actively riding the current trends in enterprise IT and consumer tech to maintain the sizable market share it has built up across a number of industries. The company is preparing to launch Windows 8 sometime in the coming months, potentially as ...
HP Gets Printer Happy as Oracle Retaliates in Court
Alongside its lengthening legal clash with Oracle, Hewlett-Packard is doing some damage control under head Meg Whitman following several major blunders by the two previous CEOs. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay, stated that her company won’t be doing any more big acquisitions in the near future, but HP is still evidently pursuing smaller ...
EMC Leads Storage Software Industry Growth
IDC released its latest “Worldwide Storage Software QView” study, covering the storage software industry’s growth by revenue and other trends in the third quarter of 2011. Companies spent $3.5 billion in this area throughout Q3, a figure that represents a 9.7 percent year-over-year increase and the second highest quarterly sales rate in the past decade. ...
Zayo Borrows $315M to Finance Latest Buy
Zayo Group, a provider of fiber bandwidth and networking services, announced it has raised $315 million in a five-year term loan. This means the money can’t be borrowed again after it has been repaid in five years’ time. RBC Capital Markets, Barclays Capital and SunTrust provided the massive loan, which has been covered by its ...
Riverbed Rolls out RiOS: Integration, Expanded Support
Riverbed Technology rolled out Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) 7.0, the software it uses to power its flagship Steelhead WAN optimization appliance line. The latest release includes a number of additions, including direct integration with the company’s Skipware satellite networking protocol implementation. On top of that, Riverbed integrated its Cascade application-aware NPM solution into Steelhead to ...
Teradici Upgrades ‘PC-over-IP’ Solution
Zero client solutions provider Teradici released PCoIP Firmware Release 3.5.0 and PCoIP Management Console 1.7, the latest version of its user virtualization software with enhanced functionality for the enterprise. The main highlight is version 3.5 of the PCoIP Firmware software, and first improvement is a significant performance boost: “USB 2.0 Support with VMware View Sessions: With ...
Someone Besides Samsung Faces US Ban – HTC Could Miss Out this Holiday
The biggest mobile device manufacturers have been filing patent infringement lawsuits against each other rather consistently for the past couple of years, and a few cases managed to stand out of the crowd these past few months. Among them is the on-going battle between Apple and Samsung. The former claims that the Taiwanese phonemaker infringed ...