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Fusion-io Boosts Webair’s Cloud
Flash storage provider Fusion-io recently released another one of its case studies, this time about how ioMemory helped data center operator Webair address the growing demands of its customers. Webair previously used traditional disk-based storage systems throughout its facilities in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Amsterdam. “One of the key factors in our decision ...
Avaya could Go Public in a $1BN IPO
Networking gear maker Avaya will become an even more serious threat to Cisco and Juniper Networks come April with reports of going public. That’s the timeframe two different anonymous insiders provided, according to a Bloomberg report. Avaya has been wanting to go public since the original June filing was turned in, but according to the ...
Cisco Bashes Juniper over Customer Service
Networking giant Cisco is still the biggest player in just about every segment of the networking market, but it’s facing a tough time as competitors are biting into its market, and investors merely expect results. This has put a lot of stress on the company, which is currently restructuring after eliminating its overly complicated internal ...
Gen8 Wrap Up: Why the Idiot-Proof Server is HP’s Best Yet
It was a busy week for HP with news of their latest server, Gen8. At the event we brought you live coverage with a host of analysts and executives expressing their thoughts on the new project, and here we take a look at this week’s highlights from the event. One of the best ways to ...
Cloud’s Growing Influence in Backup & Recovery
The cloud is one of the major trends doing a rather successful job at disrupting today’s IT environments from end-to-end, and backup and recovery is no exception. The latest testimony of that is SunGuard’s latest announcement: the launch of a new backup servics running on AWS, with several more in the works. The new “ bi-directional disaster ...
FalconStor to Report Q4 Earnings, Hopes to Reassure Shareholders
Cloud backup solutions maker FalconStor will soon hold its earnings call for its fourth fiscal quarter. The company, which has gone through a lot of turbulence in 2010 and 2011, will have to reaffirm shareholders and analysts that’s its still going strong in an industry that is rapidly evolving, thanks to a constant flurry of ...
SAP-Success Factors Acquisition is Official
Today SAP announced that its tender offer for all outstanding shares of Success Factors’ common stock is closed. The merger is expected to be completed in a few days, a SAP spokeswoman told SiliconANGLE. The deal has been carried out via Saturn Expansion Corporation, an indirect subsidiary of the business software maker, and 81,673,335 shares have ...
Attivio Scores EU Contract with Europol
Business intelligence solutions maker Attivio announced that Europol has selected its Active Intelligence Engine as the offering that will power its data management and analysis operations. Europol is a law enforcement agency that tracks suspicious activity that may be related to terrorism and other international serious crimes, an area where data gathering and analytics take ...
Greenplum Tackles the Cons of Hadoop, Forrester Approves
The now EMC-owned Greenplum, maker of analytics software, is facing the same challenges as everyone else in the Hadoop ecosystem. One of the latest tidbits of commentary by TechWorld’s Chris Kanaracus sheds some new light on where the company is standing from an overall perspective, and what it is they’re doing different in an effort ...
VMware Partners with Peake for Medical Cloud
Virtualization giant VMware is getting deeper into the healthcare sector now that Peake Healthcare Innovations has OEM’d its virtualization technology to power a new public/hybrid cloud offering. It will enable doctors and hospitals treat patients much more effectively. Peake is a joint venture between Harris Corporation and Johns Hopkins. Peake’s platform offers medical institutions more rapid ...