Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) News

Accordent Technologies today announced commercial availability of the third generation of its award-winning rich media communications management system, the Accordent Media Management System (AMMS), with a completely redesigned architecture and a host of management, tracking and reporting features designed for performance-based, online communications. AMMS v3 enables organizations to transform their video programs into highly interactive, precisely measured online communications that can be l

Posted on 17 June 2009 | 10:18 pm

Riverbed Technology, the IT infrastructure performance company for networks, applications and storage, today announced a partnership with Check Point Software Technologies to provide enterprise customers a single solution that combines Riverbed award-winning WAN optimization technology with Check Point’s leading security software. The joint solution will help companies protect and safeguard networks at remote and branch offices through a unique virtualized environment. The partnership takes ad

Posted on 3 June 2009 | 10:40 am

Windows Azure, Azure Data Services, SQL Data Services and related cloud computing topics now appear in this weekly series. • Updated 4/21/2009 for posts through 4/19/2009. Updated 4/15/2009 3:40 PM PDT for 33-page McKinsey & Co. Clearing the Air on Cloud Computing report and Nicholas Carr’s The big company and the cloud response (see the “ Azure Infrastructure ” section). Note: This post is updated daily or more frequently, depending on the availability of new articl

Posted on 21 April 2009 | 1:24 pm

The big acquisition news coming out of Q1 2009 is really no news—activity remains slow. M&A activity began cooling down during Q3 2008 and has remained fairly stagnant since then. Last year at this time we saw 22 disclosed acquisitions with a total dollar value of $4.75 billion. Q1 2009, however, saw only six disclosed acquisitions totaling $1.5 billion. Though only six of this quarter’s acquisitions were disclosed, there were actually 21 total companies bought and sold, 15 of which were u

Posted on 8 April 2009 | 12:03 pm

Another Goog-Bye. Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (pictured here), president of Google’s Asia-Pacific and Latin American operations, is leaving the search giant and joining Silicon Valley venture firm Accel Partners as a CEO-in-residence. Singh Cassidy, 39, is one of Google’s more visible execs and also one of its highest-ranking women leaders. She has been at Google (GOOG) since 2003. Previous to that, she was at Yodlee, an online banking start-up backed by Accel, along with stints at Amazon (AMZ

Posted on 7 April 2009 | 11:55 pm

Mass customization apparel company secures growth funding Leipzig (Germany) and Boston, MA (USA), February 23rd, 2009 — Spreadshirt, the world’s creative apparel platform, today announced an investment of €10 million by Kennet Partners, a leading private equity firm, and existing investor Accel Partners. Spreadshirt is a leading company for online mass customization, where goods can be easily personalized by consumers to make them more relevant and valuable, with a minimum order of one. Spr

Posted on 23 February 2009 | 2:45 am

HP ProCurve will unveil that week its first switches built specifically for datacenter applications, as well as a server module for existing switches that enables users to start integrating and consolidating switching and application processing.HP, a fixture for decades in datacenter server racks, is broadening the role of its ProCurve networking arm in those compute-intensive environments just as Cisco is about to step into the datacenter server fray. Cisco's 'California' blade servers, which w

Posted on 26 January 2009 | 10:08 am

Tuesday, January 20th, Riverbed Technology announced its acquisition of Mazu Networks for $25 million in cash with the possibility of an additional payment up to $22 million if future sales meet or exceed $35 million in the 12 months after closing. Mazu, which provides an application and device performance monitoring and reporting solution, will be integrated with Riverbed's current WAN Optimization offering to provide a more comprehensive solution for enterprises. In addition, the move also

Posted on 23 January 2009 | 9:00 am

Here is a synopsis of the 10 Most Influential Biztech Products of 2008 as seen by Larry Dignan, Sam Diaz and Tom Steinart-Threlkeld of ZDNet’s Between the Lines, fame. Check out the complete source article for more detail on each product: 10. HP EliteBook laptops Hewlett-Packard has already overtaken the top spot for worldwide PC sales, but the company is making a stronger run than ever at the business notebook market. HP’s EliteBook line of business laptops now offers a variety of industri

Posted on 22 December 2008 | 10:10 am

The unrelenting pace of innovation in the technology industry continued its march in 2008. Here is a look at the 10 technology products that had the most important impact for businesses. ——————————————————————————————————————- 10. HP EliteBook laptops Hewlett-Packard has already overtaken the top spot for worldwide PC sales, but the company is making a stronger run than ever at the business notebook market, where ThinkPads from IBM and Lenovo have been the gold standard for a decade and a h

Posted on 22 December 2008 | 12:00 am