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Real-Estate Search Providers Catching IPO Fever
One of the fastest growing web trends is real-estate search, mainly because this market is crowded with highly competitive companies that offer uses maximum convenience when looking for a new home. Among the top players in this space is Trulia, which will soon go public, according to chief executive Pete Flint. He has declined to ...
Red Hat Takes on VMware with oVirt
Red Had is working on something big in an attempt to snatch some market share from VMware, the EMC subsidiary currently sitting on the throne of the virtualization space. The Linux distributor teamed up with Cisco, IBM, Intel, NetApp and SuSE to jump start the oVirt Project, a pluggable hypervisor manager for KVM built on the ...
Dell, Intel Show Some Homegrown Love
Intel and Dell will be setting up a hybrid supercomputer dubbed “Stampede” for the University of Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Stampede is a 10-petaflop powerhouse that will be deployed in January 2013 and comes with Intel’s Many Integrated Core (MIC) x86 coprocessor. MIC is the successor of “Larrabee,” a failed attempt by the chipmaker ...
Microsoft Launches Bing Deals, Competes with Google, Amazon
Microsoft is stepping up its competition with Google over the search market with the launch of Bing Deals, a new feature that allows users to browse through deals aggregated from the more popular services, as well as some independent retailers. Bing Deals is actually an expansion rather than a new release: Bing Mobile Deals has ...
This Week in the Cloud: Open-Source, Personal Cloud
A lot has been going on in the cloud this week, and two areas in particular, open-source and personal cloud storage, were the main highlights. First of all, Diablo – the latest and first “production ready” version of OpenStack –was launched yesterday. The release is still fresh so stability is somewhat of an issue, but ...
SAP Sybase Tops the Tablet List for iPad, Android Business Apps
This week’s tablet biz apps roundup brings you five of our best picks, and Sybase Mobile Sales & Workflow by SAP is the most noteworthy. The iPad SAP CRM client is a part of a much broader attempt by SAP to boost its cloud, mobile and big data initiatives, as well to get legacy customers ...
Stealthy Startup Raises Funding, Talks of Upcoming Offering
New York-based stealth startup Dashlane secured an impressive $5 million in a first round of funding. VC firms Rho Ventures and FirstMark Capital co-led the financing, and execs from both companies are joining Dashlane’s board of directors. Dashlane co-founder Bernard Liautaud, a venture capitalist who also co-founded and led Business Objects (up until HP acquired it for ...
Teradata Ups Security with Latest Version Release
Analytics veteran Teradata revealed Teradata Database 14 today. The latest version of its offerings features a number of major new additions, including security enhancements, broader supports for data formats and more. Scott Gnau, president Teradata Labs, said, “This dramatically improves the data warehouse’s overall performance and manageability. Teradata has always been second to none in terms ...
The Mobile User’s Privacy vs. Law Enforcement, Users Win in California
Smartphones and tablets are gradually making their way towards gaining a significant place in every user’s personal cloud, from utility apps to playing a role in state-wide riots, and are subsequently storing more and more personal data and files. This, however, means that this data is exposed from another angle, and one of the main ...
EMC Lands UK Government Contract
Storage solutions maker EMC announced today that the British Isle of Man Government’s Information Systems Division chose its offerings to power an “IT transformation initiative” stretching the full length of the nation’s administration Using flash, EMC VPLEX technology and EMC Unified Storage, the Isle’s entire public service infrastructure is now hosted in a hybrid cloud. That includes ...