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Breaking Analysis: EMC VMware Lays out the Pivotal Initiative – EMC’s Silver Lining Playbook: EMC Owns 69% – VMware Transfers 500 Employees
There is an old saying “there is a silver lining in everything.” Well Joe Tucci and team found it, with the Pivotal Intiative spin out. One thing about Joe Tucci that I’ve come to admire in my interactions with him is his competitiveness. Joe Tucci is a competitor. EMC is a company that keeps on ...
Actifio Scores $50M at $500M Valuation in Series D to Take On EMC and IBM and Go IPO
Actifio just announced a new round of financing for another $50 M for a total greater than $100M in funding. Actifio, Massachusetts based technology firm, is taking advantage of two of the biggest mega trends in the technology business Software-led Infrastructure (SLI) and Big Data. This explosion of big data and virutalization is creating new business ...
Microsoft Adds Android Support for Azure Cloud
Microsoft is announcing support for Android for Windows Azure. This is good news for developers who need to have both a reliable system and distribution support across all leading mobile platforms. Microsoft promised that it would deliver first-class support for developers building Windows Store, Windows Phone 8, iOS and Android apps. Now Windows Mobile ...
Management of Big Data Systems Conference on Autonomic Computing
Top industry engineers and developers creating the big data industry are gathering for a conference in June to explore the innovation around practical examples of how to effectively manage big data systems. The event is the 10th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) and it will be in San Jose on June 26-28th. The panel ...
Big Data Insights from Silicon Valley #strataconf – Strata Conference 2013
SiliconANGLE and Wikibon teamed up again on another successful theCUBE live multiday broadcast at O’Reilly Media Strata Conference. Four days of non-stop, continuous coverage all week covering the show, as well as two major Big Data announcements early in the week. Here is a summary of the top insights in case you missed the action. ...
Skyhigh Networks -Bringing “Shadow IT” Out Into the Light
“Shadow IT” can be a real security risk, it can also present a significant support pain, even when your IT doesn’t endorse any of it. Enterprise shops have been dealing with this forever as computing and applications become increasingly commoditized and easy to take on. Web services is one of those risks and an emerging ...
Samsung and Centrify Partner on Enterprise Mobile Solutions – Dashes BlackBerry Hopes
One of the welcome surprises that came out of last month’s BlackBerry 10 announcements was how the company had embraced the enterprise need for a scalable, secure BYOD management solution. BlackBerry rose to the occasion with the launch of the BlackBerry Balance product – an ecosystem of separation of work and personal data, apps, and ...
Hortonworks Announces New Apache Projects with Stinger Initiative, TEZ, & Hadoop Gateway
Hortonworks today announced the submission of two new incubation projects to the Apache Software Foundation and the launch of the Stinger Initiative, three efforts aimed at enhancing the security and performance of Hadoop applications. Hortonworks is fully supporting Hive as the standard query engine of Hadoop while not pursuing any other alternative architectures in establishing Hadoop ...
Stormpath $8.2m Series A Funded by Pete Sonsini at NEA to Drive Secure Software-led Infrastructure
Stormpath a startup announces $8.2 million venture round of funding with NEA, Pelion Venture Partners, and Flybridge Capital. Stormpath is popular with developers and just formally exited its beta period with more than 1,000 users onboard and launched general availability of its service. Founded in 2011, Stormpath set out to overcome a key security hurdle ...
NetApp Announcing Flash Technology to Achieve Software Defined Storage with Flash Array
Netapp is announcing an all-flash array for software-driven enterprise applications, and its new, purpose-built FlashRay™ product family. According to Netapp this new direction will deliver rich scale-out and storage efficiency features to maximize the benefits of all-flash arrays. The new product introductions is the company’s attempt to extend the NetApp flash product in the enterprise. NetApp ...
