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Facebook’s been pretty active lately, launching new features around messaging and timelines. Perhaps you’ve noticed? Well, none of these enhanced features would be possible without developments in big data, and Facebook is one to always look for new solutions in solving its …
Infineta Gussies Up with Pay-as-you-Go WAN Optimization
Infineta’s latest offering is the Data Migration Accelerator, which the company says is the first of its kind pay-as-you-go data migrations service in the industry. It’s based on Infineta’s flagship Data Mobility Switch (DMS). The real perk here is that you can …
ARM is to Server Processors what Linux is to UNIX, says Calxeda Exec.
Calxeda’s stolen a bit of the limelight this week at HP’s Moonshot event, presenting its servers as proof positive that ARM’s new quad-core chip is a promising development for the industry at large. Karl Freund, Calxeda’s VP of Marketing, stopped by theCube …
Adknowledge Expands to Facebook, Acquires AdParlor
Leading long tail marketplace, Adknowledge has a pretty strong foothold in every type of advertising (in game, email, etc.) except Facebook. In order to tackle this particularly lucrative area in advertising, they finally completed the acquisition of AdParlor, a leading Facebook Ads …
Appcelerator Pulls Another $15M, Expands to Europe and Asia
Appcelerator raised an impressive $15 million today from investors Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital, and Red Hat, as well as existing backers eBay, Inc., Sierra Ventures, and Storm Ventures. The company, which develops a solution to allow developers to build apps for iOS …
Neo Technology Broadens NoSQL Movement with Spring Data
Enterprise database company Neo Technology unveiled Spring Data Neo4j 2.0 at the SpringOne 2GX 2011 conference this week, the latest version of its NoSQL database for the Spring framework. Neo4j is a part of the Spring Data Project, which is designed to make …
“Freedom is My Most Prized Possession.” OpenBucks CEO Talks Money Democratization
We take a look at digital currency’s potential in this week’s Profile Snapshot, a series that invites thought leaders and executives to share some personal insight on industry trends. Marc Rochman, founder and CEO of OpenBucks, has nearly 20 years of experience …
ScaleXtreme Adds CloudStack Support, Thinks Mobile
Cloud-based systems management provider ScaleXtreme has launched support for Citrix CloudStack, expanding its core offering to include yet another stack service. CloudStack is an open source platform, the result of Citrix’s acquisition of Cloud.com earlier this year. In broadening the number of …
Syncplicity Gets New CEO as Cloud Strategy Solidifies
Menlo Park, California-based cloud file management provider Syncplicity has reshuffled its management team as a part of an effort to consolidate its strategy in order to better compete in a particularly crowded market. The most notable change is the appointment of Karen …
Livefyre Bags $4.5M for Real-Time Comment Streams
Reinventing the way people converse by means of real-time commenting is what Livefyre’s all about. Through its platform, Livefyre builds a hyper-active community within your site that aims to increase traffic and engagement between you and your readers, tying it in with …