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Cloudera Recruits Channel Partners for Hadoop
Cloudera is turning to the channel to build out its business around Apache Hadoop. A new partner program will also introduce what Cloudera is calling the industry’s first Hadoop certification program. According to Ed Albanese, head of business development at Cloudera, the installed base for the open source Apache Hadoop is growing, and that’s driving…
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Citrix Buys Virtual Desktop Specialist RingCube
Citrix Systems added a measure of versatility to its virtual desktop product offering Aug. 10 with the acquisition of Mountain View, Calif.-based RingCube, which makes user personalization software for VDI systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. RingCube s’ product, vDesk, is a high-performance enterprise workspace virtualization package that makes more efficient the rollout…
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CA Automation Suite Enables Management of Multiple Hypervisors, Infrastructures
CA Technologies made a big splash in the cloud market this week with the launch of a spate of new updated products targeted to both enterprise customers and service providers interested in building out their public and private cloud offerings. Instrumental to the offerings is an integrated but free-flowing cloud system that avoids the kind…
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VMWare Q2 Profit Nearly Triple Last Year’s Second Quarter
Enterprise virtualization software provider VMware (NYSE:VMW) posted an impressive quarterly earnings report July 19, nearly tripling its profits over the same quarter a year ago. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company’s net income for the second quarter of 2011 was $220 million, compared with $75 million in 2010. VMware’s revenue in its fiscal Q2 climbed to…
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VMware Launches vSphere 5
SAN FRANCISCO – A significant number of IT professionals already know this and aren’t going to like hearing it, but VMware CEO Paul Maritz believes that "most people just want IT infrastructure to go away." So VMware is here to help enterprises do this by selling them vSphere 5, a new cloud computing infrastructure suite…
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Microsoft Talks Cloud, Office 365, But Not Billing
While keynote addresses on Microsoft’s second day of its Worldwide Partner Conference were all about cloud and mobility, no mention was made about the issue that’s been at the crux of why many partners have been slow to adopt Microsoft BPOS and Microsoft Office 365. Who owns the billing? VARs and MSPs want to bundle…