CA Technologies this morning announced that it has agreed to purchase Hyperformix, a provider of capacity management software for dynamic physical, virtual, and cloud IT infrastructures. Deal terms were not disclosed. Capacity management enables customers to discover how physical, virtual, hardware, software, storage, and network resources are being used, and to determine what resources will […]

Posted on September 29th, 2010 by admin
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Content delivery and web services giant Akamai has unveiled its Edge Tokenization electronic payment security service today, which secures payments consumers are making on web sites. Edge Tokenization allows for credit card data to be converted to an anonymous token prior to a Web transaction landing on a merchant’s infrastructure. So retailers don’t have to […]

Posted on September 28th, 2010 by admin
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IBM today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies, a privately held data center switching company based in Santa Clara, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. Update: according to Tech Trader Daily, the transaction is rumored to be valued at roughly $400 million, according to one of the publication’s […]

Posted on September 28th, 2010 by admin
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IBM today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire BLADE Network Technologies, a privately held data center switching company based in Santa Clara, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. BLADE, founded in 2006, specializes in software and devices that route data and transactions to and from servers; the company provides blade server […]

Posted on September 27th, 2010 by admin
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Global consulting and research firm Everest Group has released a new study, "Role of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in BPO." The study provides a framework to differentiate SaaS and non-SaaS solutions in BPO and shows that, although adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is growing rapidly, the combined SaaS-BPO approach is yet to see […]

Posted on September 25th, 2010 by admin
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Salesforce is known for continually updating its products, launching new features and versions throughout a given year. So it makes sense that three moths after launching the company’s foray into social collaboration, Chatter, to the public, Salesforce is already releasing a new version. Today, Salesforce is launching Chatter 2, what it calls the “next generation […]

Posted on September 24th, 2010 by admin
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RightScale, a company that offers a cloud computing management platform, has raised $25 million led by Tenaya Capital with DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and Presidio Ventures participating. This brings RightScale’s total funding to $42.5 million. RightScale’s cloud management platform helps engineers design, deploy, and manage business-critical applications on the cloud. RightScale platform is […]

Posted on September 24th, 2010 by admin
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Apple could be preparing to enhance the iPhone’s image search and video calling capabilities, or even add face authentication to the iPhone, say analysts and software usability experts. The iPhone manufacturer is buying Swedish face recognition software company Polar Rose, and if the deal hasn’t already closed then it is about to, according to a […]

Posted on September 24th, 2010 by admin
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Cloud-based storage and sharing application Box.net has bet big on iOS apps so far, and has seen considerable traction with its iPad and iPhone apps. Since launch, Box.net has seen 200,000 downloads of its iPhone and iPad apps, and topped 1 million content previews on mobile in the second quarter of 2010. Today, Box is […]

Posted on September 23rd, 2010 by admin
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According to a SpiceWorks report released today, Information Technology related budgets at small and medium sized businesses are up over 4% vs. figures announced for January through June 2010. Notable high spending points points are in the areas of virtualization as well as optimistic staffing increases, especially in companies with under 20 employees. Over 3,011 […]

Posted on September 23rd, 2010 by admin
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