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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 ...
Why We Need an Open Source Hypercard
{Guest Post by trusted friend and Internet legal visionary David Johnson currently running Graphical Groupware a private legal game development company.} Livecode has launched a kickstarter campaign to raise the funds needed to allow it to re-engineer their latter day version of Hypercard, release it to open source developers, and make it free to everyone ...
VMware Marching Towards Software Defined Datacenter with Software Defined Storage Acquisition of Virsto
VMware today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virsto Software, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of software that optimizes storage performance and utilization in virtual environments. This is a big move for Virsto. Virsto has done a great job in VM Centric and purpose built software that addresses the automation and orchestration for the ...
Apple Becomes Largest Mobile Phone Vendor in United States
Apple has become the #1 mobile phone vendor according to a recent report by Strategy Analysis market research firm. Mobile phone shipments grew 4 percent annually from 50.2 million units in Q4 2011 to 52.0million in the United States in Q4 2012. The growth was driven by robust demand among consumers for 4G smartphones and ...
Dell 2.0 – Michael Dell Going “All-In” – Going Private is Gutsy Move
According to Reuters Dell Inc is about to go private in a buyout led by its founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, possibly announcing a deal as soon as Monday, according to two people familiar with the matter. Michael Dell is expected to take majority ownership of the ...
NEA VC Bolts Firm to Head Up NYC Startup Incubator Techstars
It was announced today that Eugene Chung (@eyc), a venture capitalist at NEA, flew the nest at NEA to head up NYC startup incubator TechStars NYC. On Twitter Eugene describes himself as “Managing Director at TechStars NYC, film director, dreams about solipsism & the singularity”. He is Harvard guy HBS to be specific. I ...
Big Data Search Engines are Big Right Now – Stremor Announces Heuristic Engine
Big Data is all the rage right now. Search engines value appears to be polluted with SEO and social networks are booming. Graph search is hot and Big Data is smoking hot. Startups are constantly trying to add Big Data to their pitch deck. Companies looking at a few thousand data points or want to ...