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The buyer is at it again, inking another acquisition, this time for the midmarket and service providers, snaring the IT performance management vendor for a healthy premium.
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Dennis Callaghan New Relic stakes out cloud management position around Ruby on Rails, Java next
The company is making some impressive early headway in managing hosted Ruby on Rails application development environments. Now it just has to win larger deals in the Java application management space.
MIS / Impact Report, 9 Mar 2010
Dennis Callaghan Fujitsu launches its Zero Client desktop with Pano Logic built into the monitor
Startup Pano Logic, which just closed a $20m funding round, opened up its hardware specification in February and is now looking for other OEMs to license its 'zero client' reference architecture.
MIS / Market Development, 9 Mar 2010
John Abbott Progress revamps product strategy, brand around business responsiveness
In the wake of a fiscal 2009 that saw revenue and net income fall, the vendor is trying to unify its various software products around a single corporate brand and reposition them to be more responsive to changing business conditions.
MIS / Market Development, 8 Mar 2010
Dennis Callaghan Reflex Systems shows off vTrust-VMsafe integration, VQooL query language
The 451 Group is old enough to remember when Reflex Systems was Reflex Security, a pioneer in virtual IDS and IDP. Now it aims to integrate virtualization management and security, which is no mean feat.
MIS / Market Development, 8 Mar 2010
Rachel Chalmers Will CA's 3tera buyout spark fresh interest in Elastra?
Elastra Enterprise Server lets IT shops automate the process of modeling, deploying and enforcing policy across their application infrastructure. Sound familiar? This outgrowth of the grid revolution resembles 3tera, now part of CA.
MIS / Market Development, 5 Mar 2010
Rachel Chalmers Cray readies next-generation 'Baker' supercomputers, inks cloud deal with Microsoft
The archetypal supercomputing vendor is relying more on commodity components and is looking to broaden its market through pacts with Microsoft, Intel and Dell.
MIS / Impact Report, 5 Mar 2010
John Abbott Skytap adds network automation capabilities for the cloud
The company aims to help enterprises handle their unpredictable, 'bursty' and dynamic workloads. Increasingly, that means harnessing the cloud. Skytap now addresses the as-yet unsolved problem: how to create and manage multitier network topologies.
MIS / Market Development, 4 Mar 2010
Rachel Chalmers Unidesk identifies the real desktop virtualization opportunity: management
The stealth company has closed a $12m series B round led by North Bridge Venture Partners, bringing total funding to $20m. It has also lured Dell veteran Ron Oglesby on board as its chief solution architect. So what does Unidesk do, exactly?
MIS / Impact Report, 3 Mar 2010
Rachel Chalmers Modius evolves from datacenter data collection to operational intelligence
The vendor pioneered data collection from multiple non-IT devices in the datacenter, but it sees its biggest opportunity in operational intelligence – using the data to get a clear view of how both IT staff and the infrastructure are performing.
MIS / Market Development, 2 Mar 2010
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