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Karmasphere Secures $6M to Grow Hadoop, Big Data
Karmasphere, a company that offers an analytics engine that sits on top of the Hadoop data processing infrastructure, announced today that it has closed a second round of funding for $6 million. New investor Presidio Ventures, and existing backers Hummer Winblad and US Venture Partners participated in the round, which brings the total venture capital ...
Jump Desktop Tops Best iPad and Android Tablet Business Apps
This week brings with it another five iPad and Honeycomb business apps worth considering. Jump Desktop takes the number one spot, thanks to some prime feature capabilities. The virtual desktop client got the highest rating in its category from O’Reilly’s “Best iPhone Apps list, and comes with multi-protocol support. It offers better performance, and several ...
Social Media “Panic” Follows The Onion Tweets of “Rampage” in Congress
Spoof news publication The Onion decided to stir some buzz around its freshest piece by tweeting “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside the Capitol building,” about an hour prior to sending other tweets that managed to pinpoint the actual prank more boldly . However, at least at first, it seems that the message didn’t ...
Details on Deceased FalconStor CEO Slowly Emerge
Reijane Huai, the former chief executive of cloud backup solutions provider FalconStor, died the day before he was reportedly about to plead guilty to charges of bribery given to a FalconStor customer. Authorities believed Huai has committed suicide. That particular customer has not been revealed yet, though there are additional details about the circumstances of ...
Juniper Networks Upgrades Simply Connected Portfolio, Mobile Apps
Networking solutions vendor Juniper Networks announced new additions to its Simply Connected family of products, as well as an update to the JunosPulse Mobile Security Suite. The company is trying to catch up with the mobile worker trend that has been spreading for some time now, following a long list of other vendors and competitors. ...
ClickFox and Teradata Team-up for Customer Analytics
ClickFox, an analytics firm that focuses on extracting insight into customer touch-points, and Teradata, an enterprise big data vendor, announced a partnership today that aims to promote ClickFox’s CRM analytics offerings to Teradata customers. “Teradata recognizes the tremendous value of providing cross-channel customer and product experience analysis of data to its customers. Now Teradata customers ...
Nokia Cuts More Jobs as It Preps for WP7 Launch
Phonemaker Nokia had a huge share of the global mobile market up until 2007, when the iPhone was launched. Now in 2011, the company is experiencing the backlash of its failure to adapt to the market trends in time at its fullest. Nokia nevertheless initiated a recovery process, and layoffs are a part of that. ...
Save Your Code from Patent Infringement with OpenLogic’s New Tool
Open-source software maker OpenLogic announced the latest version of OLEX Enterprise Edition, an offering that aims to give companies more visibility into their code, specifically within open source projects. This is needed in order to make sure such an application doesn’t contain bits of code from vendors that have not authorized the use of their ...
QLogic Overhauls Networking Portfolio
Networking firm QLogic announced a major update today: it refreshed its FlexSuite product line-up and expanded its Adaptive Convergence by throwing in support for 16Gb converged fibre channel and 10Gb Ethernet protocols. Starting with Adaptive Convergence, QLogic promises that (just like the FlexSuite products), customers upgrading their systems to its new technology will be able to ...
SAP’s Drastic Approach to Expand BI Ecosystem
Germany-based business software maker SAP has promised its shareholders that it will double its revenues by 2015 thanks to new cloud, mobile and big data ventures, and the firm is planning to meet that deadline. It unveiled its new “Build and Sell” program this week, which opens up the SAP BusinessObjects product line-up for the ...