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EMC Balances Out M&A and R&D
Storage vendor EMC has a very rounded-out strategy that combines a lot of acquisitions, which represent perhaps the bulk of the company’s investments, and in house development. Joe Tucci confirmed this during a keynote last month where he provided some official numbers about EMC’s spenditure: $10.4 billion went to R&D between 2003 and 2012, while ...
Intel Invests in Android as Mobile Strategy Emerges
Insyde, a Taiwan-based company that makes firmware based on Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Android distributions based on the original open-source code Google produces, received some fresh capital this week. Intel Capital made an investment of NT$300 million in the company, the equivalent of about $10 million, marking the latest result of the long ...
Data Recovery and Backup Industry Sees Growing Adoption, New Products
The big data explosion many companies are experiencing today is leading to a number of changes in the traditional datacenter, and data recovery and backup is an area that is no exception. Bigger datasets mean more bandwidth, and the UK-based Bridgeworks has been capitalizing this space. The data storage connectivity firm released a case study ...
ActiveState Offers Free Tool for Developers
ActiveState’s Stackato Micro Cloud comes out of beta today, and will remain a free offering to developers. Stackato is the company’s Cloud Foundry-based open platform-as-a-service, which differentiates itself by being vendor agnostic with support for public and private cloud platforms, not to mention a sizable number of programming languages. Micro Cloud lets developers deploy their ...
Security Concerns around Encryption are not Aimed at Big Brother Alone
The worries concerning the need for encryption to keep the Big Brother from spying over the private citizen have been cropping up from time to time rather frequently, but now a twist to the story usual story appeared. A new a report entitled “The growing impact of full disk encryption on digital forensics” hopes to increase ...
VMware’s PaaS Ranks High, Mac Users Catch a Break (for Now)
A couple of interesting updates are coming out of EMC’s virtualization subsidiary VMware. The first highlight is a fresh Evan Data survey which concluded that developers find Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open-source platform-as-a-service offering, to be the best PaaS of its kind overall. Cloud Foundry ranked first among 14 different cloud platform providers, thanks to a ...
HP CEO has a Lot of Work Ahead as Earnings Miss Expectations
Former eBay head Meg Whiteman replaced Leo Apotheker as chief executive officer of HP a couple months ago, and she has a lot of ground to cover now that shareholders are beginning to lose faith in the electronics giant. Hewlett-Packard reported earnings of $1.13 per share on $32.06 billion in revenue for the quarter ended ...
Wyse Expands Mobile Strategy with Latest Buy
Thin client provider Wyse announced it has acquired Trellia for an undisclosed amount. Trellia offers a cloud-based mobile management platform, and its portfolio fits in rather nicely with Wyse’s mobile approach. The company’s Wyse PocketCloud app has gained a lot of popularity across Android and iOS, meaning this latest deal will be leveraged to further ...
EMC Rolls Out Linux Support with Atmos Cloud v1.1
Storage vendor EMC updated the Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform today, extending functionality and support. Atmos Cloud is an add-on application to the on-premise version of the software, allowing users to access the cloud storage management platform from a web-based interface. Version 1.1 is the latest push by EMC to get more involved in the as-a-service ...
Intel Caught in the Middle of HP, Oracle Battle
Intel has found itself in a very central position, so to speak, due to a couple of updates. The first one is the latest development in Hewlett-Packard’s suit against Oracle’s decision to halt support for Intel’s server Itanium chips. Those chips can be found in some of HP’s products. Fresh off the weekend, Oracle’s legal ...