Cloud Acquisitions: Software giants start pouncing on cloud companies

Oracle bought RightNow. SAP acquired SuccessFactors. And it’s likely a few other cloud-related companies will be coming to a software giant near you. What remains to be seen is whether these cloud acquisitions really change anything or just ensure the giants keep their stranglehold on the market. SAP’s $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors, which was [...]

Strong Demand for Storage Software Drives Third Quarter Revenues

Storage software revenues reached nearly $3.5 billion in the third quarter of 2011 (3Q11), a 9.7% increase over the same quarter in 2010. This makes 3Q11 the second largest revenue-generating quarter in the nine years that International Data Corporation (IDC) has been tracking the market. Over the past nine years, only the first quarter of [...]

SolarWinds Integrates Virtualization and Storage Solutions for Extended Cloud Management

Virtualization has dramatically changed how IT practitioners manage their environments, especially shared storage. Once users have virtualized up to 30 percent of their environment, managing storage infrastructure is critical to ensuring performance and capacity of the overall environment and ultimately establishing a successful cloud foundation. SolarWinds® Inc. (NYSE: SWI – News), a leading provider of [...]

Cloud Computing, Datacenter Consolidation and Mobility Poised to Reshape Federal IT Market

Deltek, Inc., the leading global provider of enterprise software and information solutions for professional services firms and government contractors, has released two new research reports, entitled “Federal IT Hardware Market, 2011-2016” and “Federal Software Products Market, FY2011-2016.” The reports – available now – show that, amidst expectations for several years of declining federal discretionary spending, [...]

TechCast Live The Coolest Virtualization Products

TechCast Live The Coolest Virtualization Products

OTN's Rick Ramsey reviews Oracle's coolest virtualization production, live from OpenWorld 2…

Wind River Unlocks Multi-core Scalability for Advanced Networking Applications

Wind River, a world leader in embedded and mobile software, has introduced the latest version of its Wind River Network Acceleration Platform, a multi-core acceleration solution delivering ultrafast networking performance for network infrastructure equipment. The solution enables greater performance with the addition of packet acceleration for higher-level protocols including Layer 4 transport protocols such as [...]

Composite Software Announces Availability of Composite 6 Analyst Reports

Bloor Research and Enterprise Management Associates author research reports touting the new capabilities of Composite Software’s data virtualization software SAN MATEO, Calif.: Composite Software, the data virtualization performance leader, announced today the availability of analyst research reports from Bloor Research International Ltd. and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) detailing the new features and benefits of Composite [...]

StorageCraft Releases New Virtual Disaster Recovery Software

ShadowProtect Virtual delivers affordable, flexible backup solutions for hybrid environments With so many different combinations of physical systems and virtual environments in today’s storage strategy, it is important for IT professionals to use a disaster recovery solution built to handle systems and data backup in any environment in order to ensure business continuity. StorageCraft Technology [...]