XtremIO makes storage arrays based on flash memory chips, and is a would-be rival to Violin Memory, the Silicon Valley start-up that’s revving its engine for a future IPO.
Mobile Cloud
14 May 2012
11 May 2012
Today HP officially opened its own cloud. HP is very late to the cloud game, so how is HP going to make people want to use its cloud above all others?
Google, which has watched Amazon.com dominate the market for web-based computer services, is boosting spending to carve out a bigger piece of the cloud for itself.
It went from being a consulting company hiring data scientists to develop reco-algorithms for a contest, to an advanced analytics provider about to announce a partnership with SAP/HANA.
That’s because running a cloud business is completely opposite to running a traditional enterprise software business.
That’s a pretty big shift from Dropbox’s traditional strategy – having a folder on your desktop that you can drop stuff into that syncs to a remote server.
Mixpanel data will become more actionable: instead of just helping gaming companies identify which players are “whales”, it will also help them figure out what to do with that knowledge.
10 May 2012
An Amazon new service lets companies use Microsoft’s database and its web programming platform on Amazon’s cloud. Customers who use those technologies are natural for Microsoft’s cloud.
Samsung, which reportedly made a $5m investment in mSpot last year, has acquired the 8-year-old startup that lets users stream movies to their phones and store music online in the cloud.
Symantec laid out a road map that includes building up its cloud-based O3 platform and stretching further into both the mobile and cloud computing space.