Tier 3, which bills itself as an enterprise platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company, today announced that it has scored $8.5 million in Series A funding from Ignition and Madrona Venture Group. John Connors from Ignition and Matt McIlwain from Madrona will join the company’s board of directors. Founded in 2006, Tier 3 provides infrastructure services for nearly […]
Posted on March 10th, 2011 by admin
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DIGIOP Technologies, a developer of video and data management software solutions, this morning announced that an investor group led by The Carlyle Group has acquired them earlier this month. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. DIGIOP offers a suite of video and data management solutions, primarily for the surveillance industry, and plans to launch […]
Posted on March 9th, 2011 by admin
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Citrix Systems recently established a Silicon Valley-based seed investment vehicle dubbed Startup Accelerator. Today, the fund is announcing its first investment (PDF) – Citrix has invested an undisclosed sum in Primadesk, which will be touting its wares later today at DEMO 2011. The company basically aims to help users search, manage and backup their personal […]
Posted on March 5th, 2011 by admin
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Ajax.org is today introducing Cloud9 IDE, a fresh cloud-based development platform for JavaScript incorporating HTML5, and supporting Python, Ruby and PHP. The environment aims to enables developers to easily build, test, debug, and deploy Web and mobile applications with a minimum of technical skills and time required. If the name of the project (repository: Cloud9 […]
Posted on March 4th, 2011 by admin
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In the old days, big data used to be called data warehousing. But that was when corporations stored all their own data on their own servers. Today, it’s just called big data and it generally refers to the vast reaches of data in the cloud. Old big data is buying new big data today, as […]
Posted on March 4th, 2011 by admin
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Business Continuity Planning is about more than IT and technology based systems. The CEO and executive staff must define what business processes need protection and the appropriate response, the CIO and IT have several innate characteristics that make them well suited to disaster planning and implementation. Project planning: CIO and IT are accustomed to implementing […]
Posted on March 4th, 2011 by admin
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Imation, a global developer and marketer of branded products that enable people to store and protect digital information, has acquired ENCRYPTX Corporation, which provides encryption and security solutions for removable storage devices and storage media. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but approximately 10 employees will transfer from ENCRYPTX to Imation. The transaction includes […]
Posted on March 3rd, 2011 by admin
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Cisco this morning announced that it has completed its acquisition of privately-held Pari Networks, a provider of network configuration and change management solutions, in an effort to complement its own ‘smart service’ capabilities. Pari Networks, notably, was founded by a group of former Cisco executives. Cisco originally announced its intent to buy Pari Networks on […]
Posted on March 3rd, 2011 by admin
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D2 Technologies, which markets embedded IP communications software platforms, has acquired Webia Technologies through an all-stock transaction. Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with development centers in Taiwan and Shanghai, China, Webia was one of the first software vendors to introduce set-top box media player platforms based on Google’s Android OS. Webia recently unveiled what it claims […]
Posted on March 2nd, 2011 by admin
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IBM is expanding its footprint in the cloud today with the debut of new capabilities in virtualization, image management and cloud computing, including software that can virtualize a data center within minutes. IBM’s new advanced virtual deployment software, which is now in open beta, allows IT firms to create a cloud environment with and deploy […]
Posted on March 2nd, 2011 by admin
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