Dell Drops EMC – Ending 10 Year Relationship
Dell is dropping EMC, ending a 10-year alliance that has become increasingly rocky in the past few years. Dell ended the relationship two years early. In a statement to Computerworld, Dell stated that it…
RSA and McAfee for a Single Security Offering
RSA, the security division of storage giant EMC and McAfee (recently acquired by Intel) announced the latest product of a technology partnership, which was announced earlier this year. The companies now offer a joint solution that…
Cloudera Partners with SGI as the Hadoop Market Shapes Up
By Klint Finley
Today Cloudera and technical computing services company SGI will announce a reseller partnership. According to SGI Director of Product Marketing Sunny Sundstrom, SGI has been providing Apache Hadoop related services since the earliest days…
VMware Expands Partner Base before Earnings Call
EMC virtualization subsidiary VMware is scheduled to have its Q3 earnings call today, and analysts are expecting the company to report growth consistent with the past four quarters. Also today the company released a…
Bitcoin Value Falling as ExchB Exchange Shutters its Doors and Windows
By Kyt Dotson
Yesterday, Oct 16, 2011, ExchB officially stopped all transactions and closed up shop. The exchange bills itself as “the 1st US Bitcoin Exchange” and now they’ll take that title to the exchange grave with…
SaaS and PaaS Cozy Up as SuccessFactors Uses Cloud Foundry to Extend Its Platform
By Klint Finley
We watch the platform-as-a-service space closely here at ServicesAngle, but sometimes interesting use cases for PaaS can be hard to come by. That makes today’s announcement that SuccessFactors is using VMware’s open source PaaS…
Pandora Needs an Advertising Magnet, Hires Ex-Flip Executive
By Cherr Aira
Early in the game, Pandora hit all the right pockets, made all the more evident by a strong entrée in the IPO space. Along with other cloud music services, Pandora has become one of the most…
Apple iPhone 4S Sales vs Samsung Galaxy S II
We’re so used to hearing about Apple and Samsung battling it out in court, but there’s another battle brewing that we have to watch out for: the battle of device sales. When Apple officially…
Red Card! Xbox LIVE Users Targeted by Soccer Fan Hacker
By Kyt Dotson
Over the past month a large number of reports of hacked Xbox LIVE accounts have been flowing to a reporter at Ars Technica and the pattern emerging seems a bit specific: the hacker purchases…
Android is Rough but Promising Terrain for Firefox, Opera Updates
Smartphones and tablets are not only good for apps but also for web browsing. Unfortunately, not all mobile browsers are easy to use and often load at a snail’s pace, so web browsing on…