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Cloudera Recruits Channel Partners for Hadoop
Cloudera is turning to the channel to build out its business around Apache Hadoop. A new partner program will also introduce what Cloudera is calling the industry’s first Hadoop certification program. According to Ed Albanese, head of business development at Cloudera, the installed base for the open source Apache Hadoop is growing, and that’s driving…
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Connectwise, N-Able Tout Robust MSP Growth
The managed services market is exploding and one of the first signs to show the good news is a huge uptick in remote monitoring and management (RMM) software and managed service platforms for managed service providers (MSPs). This week both Connectwise and N-able Technologies touted its success with MSPs, throwing open their kimonos on 2011…
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Microsoft Windows Phone Executive Departs
Microsoft executive Charlie Kindel is leaving the company after 21 years. As general manager for Windows Phone’s developer ecosystem, he played a key role in the development of Windows Phone, which represents Microsoft s best hope for re-establishing a presence in the ultra-competitive smartphone market. Kindel s is apparently heading to a startup, although an…
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Amazon Defies Apple With Kindle Cloud Reader
Amazon is taking another step forward in the e-reader game with the launch of its Kindle Cloud Reader, which lets users read Kindle e-books via their Web browser without the need to download and install an app. We have written the application from the ground up in HTML5, so that customers can also access their…
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Nokia Bets It All on Windows Phone in U.S.
Live in the United States? Have your eyes on a Nokia smartphone running Symbian? Tough luck. According to reports, the Finnish phone maker is planning to end sales of its Symbian-based smartphones and feature phones in North America, effectively doubling down on its bet that Microsoft s Windows Phone will reverse its recent market-share declines.…
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Citrix Buys Virtual Desktop Specialist RingCube
Citrix Systems added a measure of versatility to its virtual desktop product offering Aug. 10 with the acquisition of Mountain View, Calif.-based RingCube, which makes user personalization software for VDI systems. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. RingCube s’ product, vDesk, is a high-performance enterprise workspace virtualization package that makes more efficient the rollout…