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Pocket Informant Tops Week’s Best iPad, Android Tablet Apps for Business
This week in business apps for the iPad and Android tablets, the app that took the top spot in our list is Pocket Informant for iPad. The award-winning app integrates calendaring and note-taking tools within one streamlined UI. It comes with a long list of features, functionalities and supports, and offers a rich user experience ...
This Week in the Cloud: Oracle-Salesforce Drama and More
This week featured the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 tech conference, and a host of other cloud industry updates. Some of them directly relate to the enterprise IT giant, with the public cloud being one of the main highlights. Both Hewlett-Packard and Google announced new service offerings. Starting off with HP, the company revealed earlier this week ...
FlashSoft Update Spree Continues with 2.0 Release
FlashSoft announced the second and latest release of its FlashSoft SE software, which lets companies use SSD or flash PCIe to supplement cache in the server. This elimantes IO latency according to the company, which posted some impressive performance boosts in the recent past. FlashSoft SE 2.0 works with Linux, which is the native app ...
The Good and Bad of EMC-Oracle Relationship
Jason Kotsafis, a director at EMC, dropped by theCube with Dave Vellante on day three of the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 conference to elaborate on how EMC and Oracle position themselves with and against one another in the enterprise market. Kotsafis, who is attending the 15th consecutive OpenWorld gathering on the behalf of EMC, pointed out ...
Openworld a Contrast by Name, says EMC: Oracle’s “Not Open”
David Nicholson, the senior director of director Intel Global Alliances for EMC, stopped by theCube with Dave Vellante at Oracle OpenWorld 2011. He talked cloud and open source, as well as not so open IT ecosystems. He started by saying that Oracle OpenWorld presents a contrast derived from the title, considering that the company is not ...
HP Delivers SAP Applications from the Cloud
Hardware maker Hewlett-Packard and business software developer SAP announced an interesting partnership today. Customers of HP Enterprise Services will now have access to SAP applications hosted remotely on the company’s datacenters. “HP bundles the necessary infrastructure, platform and application services in an as-a-service model, enabling clients to pay on a per-seat basis for what they need ...
QLogic Appoints New VP of Marketing
Networking solutions maker QLogic announced a pretty significant executive level change today. Chris Humphrey is now vice president of corporate marketing, effective immediately. He will be responsible for promoting his company’s products throughout the entire world. Humphrey comes to QLogic from Honeywell Life Safety, where he served as vice president and general manager for a “global ...
Symantec Rolls Out Major Update with SAMG Version 6
Software and security solutions maker Symantec Vision unveiled the latest version of its Storage and Availability Management software for virtualized deployments. V6 introduces a lot of new things, including a pay as you go model to try and haul in more customers. Symantec promises SAMG 6 can handle multi-tiered applications a lot better, and that it ...
Quantum’s Latest Scaling Dedupe Heats Up Competition
Backup and recovery solutions provider Quantum announced it latest offering, the DXi4601 disk backup system. It’s designed for relatively small deployments, and its selling point is that it doesn’t require a major and expensive upgrade to scale up in case the company that’s using it needs more capacity. The basic version comes with four terabytes ...
BI Firm Pentaho Appoints New Chief Executive, Quentin Gallivan
BI firm Pentaho announced Quentin Gallivan has been appointed as its new CEO. Gallivan will be replacing founder Richard Daley, who is stepping down from his role as the company’s head to become its Chief Strategy Officer. He will also remain active on Pentaho’s board. “Quentin Gallivan came to our attention because of his proven ...