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HP Joins the Army: $250M Deal for Data
Hewlett-Packard is one of the many vendors that are benefiting from the U.S government’s plans to modernize its IT infrastructure, a very wide-scale initiative that was kicked off by the current administration with the appointment of the nation’s first CTO. HP’s server group has been assigned with the task of powering up cloud computing services ...
FalconStor Hires Former CA Marketing Chief to Lead Partner Sales
Data protection firm FalconStor is looking to boost its relatively flat performance throughout the past couple of years, and strengthening the executive leadership seems to be one of the first steps. To be more precise, the company hired Gary Quinn, the former executive vice president of international sales and North American channel sales at CA ...
Tintri Takes On Cloning, VMware Integration
Tintri, the company that makes purpose-built storage appliances for virtual machines, rolled out an update to its flagship Tintri VMstore platform that adds several enhancements on top of the existing functionality. One of the new features is virtual machine cloning, which can help admins better cover a number of processes. Being able to fire up hundreds ...
ViaWest Raises $65M for Hosted Services, Plans Future Growth
Privately held data center operator ViaWest received $65 million in debt financing to be used in ‘future growth initiatives,’ which presumably means a continuation of the company’s past and current efforts to expand. The bulk of the sum came from RBC Capital Markets, and the remaining $10 million was provided by Barclays Private Credit Partners ...
Nimble CRM Adds App to Chrome Web Store
Nimble is looking to revolutionize CRM at a scale that was previously associated, for the most part, with more legacy offerings. The company is essentially modernizing relations management, adding in factors from recent trends such as cloud and cross-platform support. The latter encompasses mobile, as well as web. Nimble launched an app on Google‘s Chrome ...
Cisco Expands in Brazil, Education Segment
Brazil is a fast-growing IT market. Companies including Broadcom have expressed interest to strengthen their local presence, and now Cisco is too. IT training and certification is a big emphasis for the networking gear maker, specifically cloud education: as a part of a new alliance with storage giant EMC and its subsidiary VMware, new training courses will become available to partners ...
Dell Boosts Services Portfolio with Clerity Buy
Technology manufacturer Dell has already shared its intentions of pulling away from its consumer businesses, specifically its PC unit, instead re-focusing on the enterprise and the cloud. The reasons are quite clear – it has the likes of Apple to compete with, and selling data center equipment is considerably more profitable than relatively low-margin PC ...
Big Data is the New Natural Resource: New IBM Tool Powers Decision Making
Big Blue finally revealed the fruits of a four-year R&D initiative involving hundreds of IBM engineers, along with resources provided by 200 partners and 100 clients. The initiative aims to realize a motto of being the new enterprises ‘natural resource,’ an observation that is by all means true based on some of the data in ...
Earlybird Takes On European VC Scene with $700M Milestone
Earlybird, the venture capital firm with an investment portfolio based in Europe, announced the $100 million first close of its fourth venture fund. That’s about the half way point for their target sum of $200 million, and brings the total amount of capital Earlybird handled since its foundation in 1997 to $700 million. The new ...
SAP Celebrates 40th Anniversary with Social Gestures, Internal Change
Business software maker SAP turned 40 years old today–four decades through which the company managed to adapt to the key changes in IT, transforming into the mega-vendor of enterprise software it’s become today. Quite notably, analytics received a big mention in an official statement from one of the company’s original founders. “When we began in ...