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Swiss Takes National Catastrophe Data to the Cloud, Teams with Puppet Labs
It’s only been a few weeks since the Japan earthquake ripped through the island nation, with an uprising of information that spread the news around the world in mere seconds. While certain data networks were damaged, internet and mobile traffic soared, as loved ones tried to contact each other, and correspondents struggled to update the ...
Springpad Leaps Into Action with More Custom Tools, Releases API
I’ve been an avid fan of Evernote since before it launched, and its extensive marketplace has really fleshed out its potential for bookmarking for a cause. But its up-and-coming rival Springpad is coming out with some very action-oriented features that have long piqued my interest, enabling you to do more with your bookmarked items, instead ...
Cisco’s John Chambers Admits Lack of Focus, Pledges Improvements
Cisco’s had a bumpy year so far, facing rising competition from HP, Juniper Networks, and several others. Despite a steady product roll-out and a number of strategic acquisitions and partnerships, Cisco’s CEO John Chambers sent out a memo yesterday admitting that his company has “lost its focus, lacks discipline and needs to overhaul its operations.” ...
VMware’s Latest Acquisition Beefs up Amazon Rivalry
Mozy, the online data backup provider, was already a part of the EMC family, but has been transferred to the VMware camp, signaling their intent to become a prominent cloud IT service provider. The move comes very soon after another EMC acquisition, RSA. The financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but keeping ...
Recent Upgrades to FCoE Make for Hot Topics at SNW Conference
The SNW conference kicks off today, bringing another seasonal discussion on cloud infrastructure, architecture and several other aspects of data in our current era. With keynote speakers including Steve Wozniak, and several segments dedicated to storage management, backup, archiving, energy efficiency and security, SNW Spring 2011 is destined to be a hotbed for related discussions ...
Big Data Breach Leaves Chase Bank, Best Buy Customers at Risk
A data breach at third-party marketing firm Epsilon has exposed the email addresses and names of customers from several large retailers and financial institutions, including Chase Bank, Best Buy, TiVo, Disney, Kroger and more. It’s a hack that won’t affect, say, financial data, like bank account numbers, but gives rise to security concerns anyway. A ...
mBlast CEO Talks on Scaling Big Data for Marketers
mBlast is a marketing tool that’s dawned in a new era of online media, where social voices rule and influencers are no longer easily identified as journalists and celebrities. Addressing the changing needs of today’s marketers, mBlast launched a new tool called mpact about 11 weeks ago, with fancy algorithms that convert web-scouring into readable ...
Citrusleaf Launches Fresh Take on NoSQL and Mobile, Flush with $2M in Funds
Citrusleaf is launching a real-time NoSQL database platform, delivering a different take on database and distributed technology. With $2 million in Series A funding from Alsop Louie Partners, Kalpathi Investments and Draper Associates, the startup is tackling a unique sector of the NoSQL environment, with big goals around simplifying its management and scalability. Founded in ...
Cisco Flips the Big Switch, Optimizes Cloud Management
Cisco’s launched an overhauled version of its data center portfolio, which spans their switches, servers and storage networking protocols, as well as their data center management software. It’s all part of Cisco’s fabric re-vamp for data centers, particularly in those that seek an a la carte format for networks, computing and management. That covers a ...
Yodlee Makes Good Use of Tax Payers’ Data, Launches New App
The finance industry has been crunching data for as long as it’s been around, and this is one of the reasons it takes to technology as readily as it does. When it comes to cloud services in particular, there’s always the matter of security. But the application of that data is a next step in ...