Monthly Archives: November 2011

Puppet Labs Secures $8.5 Million in Series C Funding With New Investors Cisco, Google Ventures and VMware

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

Puppet Labs announced the closure of a Series C funding round valued at $8.5 million. As a result of the funding raise, new investors Cisco, Google Ventures and VMware join existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, True Ventures, and … Continue reading →

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Virtualization and Mobile Devices Converge With Wyse’s Acquisition of Trellia

Posted on November 28, 2011 by

Wyse’s acquisition of Trellia last week illustrates the convergence of two of the hottest trends in technology today: mobile devices and virtualization. Wyse, one of the world’s leading cloud client computing companies, consolidated its portfolio with the addition of Trellia’s … Continue reading →

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Aditi Technologies Aims to Become Leader in Azure Adoption With Cumulux Acquisition

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

Software application development company Aditi Technologies announced the acquisition of cloud computing company Cumulux on November 21. The acquisition is intended to enable Aditi Technologies to promote the adoption of the Microsoft Azure platform in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation. Aditi … Continue reading →

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Gavin King’s Introduction to Ceylon Project at QCon Beijing

Posted on November 26, 2011 by

For more on the Ceylon programming language, see Red Hat Broadens Access To Ceylon Programming Language: Introducing the Ceylon Project – Gavin King presentation at QCon Beijing 2011 View more presentations from devstonez

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Red Hat Broadens Access To Ceylon Programming Language

Posted on November 25, 2011 by

Red Hat released a website dedicated to its new programming language Ceylon, a Java Virtual Machine-based language that aims to deliver solutions for some of the drawbacks of Java. The website provides links to access Ceylon code through GitHub, even … Continue reading →

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Box.net Targets Enterprise With Box Innovation Network

Posted on November 17, 2011 by

Box.net announced plans to invest $2 million in a developer network designed to promote the production of enterprise friendly applications today. Named the Box Innovation Network, or /bin, the network is intended to foster the creation of an ecosystem whereby … Continue reading →

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Amazon Web Services Announces Cloud Supercomputer Ranked 42 On Top500 List

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

On Monday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the Beta launch of Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (CC2), a supercomputer on its EC2 cloud infrastructure that ranks 42 on the list of the world’s top 500 supercomputers. Cluster Compute Eight Extra … Continue reading →

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Karmasphere Partners To Offer Big Data Analytics on Apache Hadoop-based Hortonworks Data Platform

Posted on November 14, 2011 by

Big Data player Karmasphere announced plans to join the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program today. Karmasphere’s partnership with Hortonworks is set to further stoke the embers of the emerging battle between Cloudera and Hortonworks for control of market share in the … Continue reading →

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