Cisco this morning announced its intent to acquire newScale, a global provider of self-service and lifecycle management software for enterprise IT and private/hybrid cloud computing. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but newScale is a company that’s raised tens of millions of dollars in funding from a wide range of investors, according to CrunchBase. […]
Posted on March 29th, 2011 by admin
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Brendan Eich, creator of the JavaScript scripting language and chief technology officer at Mozilla, has joined the advisory board of Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based Ajax.org. We recently wrote about Ajax.org’s introduction of Cloud9 IDE, a commercial, cloud-based development platform for JavaScript that incorporates HTML5, and supporting Python, Ruby and PHP. Eich is known for his work […]
Posted on March 28th, 2011 by admin
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The number of companies that have remote workers or branch offices is constantly growing. This expansion comes alongside greater use of the Internet for communication and collaboration. Typical examples of branch office IT deployments are retailers, travel agents, petrol stations or local sales offices. The IT requirements at each location can be basic, and IT […]
Posted on March 26th, 2011 by admin
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Fresh off a $48 million funding round, cloud storage and collaboration startup Box.net is launching a new product today that should further its presence in the enterprise space. The company is debuting ECM Cloud Connect, which acts as a bridge between on-premise enterprise content management systems and Box.net’s cloud platforms. Box.net CEO and co-founder Aaron […]
Posted on March 23rd, 2011 by admin
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Second generation platform as a service DotCloud is announcing its $10 million dollar Series A today, after a recent rockstar-filled seed round which included Ron Conway and Chris Sacca. Investors in the most recent round include Benchmark Capital and Trinity Ventures. Along with the financing, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, Apple engineering manager Marc Varstaen, Benchmark’s Peter Fenton and […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2011 by admin
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Japan’s tragedy reminds us of why disaster recovery planning is so critical for all business records and electronic data Strategies for safeguarding business records and electronic data from devastating earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, or other natural or manmade disasters should be reevaluated. In the wake of recent events, thousands of people suddenly found themselves homeless, […]
Posted on March 21st, 2011 by admin
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Product development software company Atlassian is announcing a number of upgrades to its collaboration and software development tools. In case you aren’t familiar, Atlassian software development and collaboration tools to help teams conceive, plan, build and launch products. Products include JIRA (issue tracker) and Confluence (content collaboration). The company’s offerings are used by 20,000 customers […]
Posted on March 17th, 2011 by admin
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Enabling business continuity, reliable disaster recovery, and ongoing access to applications and data for employees, partners, and customers is critical. Failed applications can lead to lost data and lengthy recovery times, and can negatively affect the company’s reputation\ and profitability. While most companies employ some backup processes, they are difficult to test. Planned downtime for […]
Posted on March 16th, 2011 by admin
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Voice and data solutions company Intermec today announced the acquisition of Enterprise Mobile, a provider of lifecycle services for mobile devices. Terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed. The deal, which follows the $190 million buyout of rival Vocollect earlier this month, enables Intermec to extend its hardware, software and lifecycle services for enterprise mobile […]
Posted on March 16th, 2011 by admin
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Intel, through stand-alone subsidiary Intel Mobile Communications, today announced that it has acquired most of the assets of SySDSoft, a Cairo, Egypt-based software company to accelerate its 4G LTE efforts. The privately-held company develops embedded wireless systems. Intel says it will hire roughly 100 of SySDSoft’s electrical engineers and computer scientists. Other terms of the […]
Posted on March 14th, 2011 by admin
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