Category: IT

Cloud IT

RackWare Raises $2.3M For Its Cloud Management Solution

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Frederic Lardinois As businesses shift their data center solutions to the cloud, there is room for companies that don’t just help them migrate or create hybrid solutions, but also for those that help them utilize their existing solutions and scale them as needed by using private and public clouds.RackWare, which competes with companies like RightScale, offers solutions for enterprise IT to automate much of this and today announced that it has raised a $2.3…

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Business IT

Puppet Labs Raises $40M More To Take Its IT Automation Business Global

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Ingrid Lunden Puppet Labs, whose IT automation software is used by the likes of Google, Twitter, Salesforce and AT&T among 18,000 others, is today announcing another $40 million in venture backing, money that it will be investing in “engineering, product and international expansion,” CEO and founder Luke Kanies tells TechCrunch. The funding, which comes from Puppet Labs’ existing top-shelf and strategic investors — specifically Cisco, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Triangle…

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IT

The IT Department Is Dead. Long Live the IT Department

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As reported on Wired. BY MARCUS WOHLSEN Photo: Archive Holdings, Inc.   Evernote CEO Phil Libin sounds like a lot of tech executives when he advocates for treating employees well. It’s not just a nice thing to do, he says, it’s an important business strategy. “You can’t beat more productivity out of knowledge workers,” he says. “The only way you can get people to do more is to make them relatively happy.” That’s the kind of…

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Business IT

Soluto Brings Web-Based PC Management To Small Business, Ranks The Best Windows Laptops For SMBs (It’s A Mac)

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Over the last few years, Israeli IT startupSoluto has morphed from simply being PC software that helps users run diagnostics on their hard drives, to a web-based platform that aims to turn you into a one-person Help Desk. In other words, Soluto now allows anyone to offer remote tech support and run diagnostics, whether that be for your mom’s computer or dozens of customers. From the beginning, Soluto has been…

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Application Business IT

WD SmartWare Pro automates backups to both Dropbox and external drives

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas We’re used to external hard drive makers offering some kind of backup software to add value, although it’s usually forgettable for the experienced users among us — what we erase while we’re busy setting up Windows 8 File History, Time Machine or a cloud service. Western Digital thinks some cloud integration of its own will get us looking at its new, standalone WD SmartWare Pro app. While the client can automatically back…

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