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Hewlett-Packard is attempting to get over its PC stage under new chief executive Leo Apotheker, in light of the declining market demand and the continuously growing, higher margin enterprise space. That’s the market HP has set its eyes on, and software is …
Primary Data Optimization: Wikibon Tackles Another Tough Topic
We’re all well aware that big data is driving innovation at the enterprise and startup levels, but beyond recognizing big data needs and its industry impact, we must now determine how to best implement it. To this end, Wikibon announced late last …
Patent Reform Impacts IT: More Trolling, or Innovation?
A decade-old bill that is referred to as an almost complete overhaul of the current U.S patent system is expected to receive final congressional passage this month, the WSJ reports, and there are mixed reviews. Here’s the extract: The bill, which passed …
Dell Adds Former White House Chief of Staff, Others to Board
Hardware giant Dell is the latest tech company that has added new members to its board of directors. According to a newly released announcement, Janet Clark, Laura Conigliaro and Ken Duberstein are the three execs that are joining the board. “Janet Clark, …
VMware Invests in Storage, Talks Private Cloud
There’s been recent talk concerning VMware’s direction moving forward, especially now that VMworld is over and the company’s presented more of its goals around virtualization. That includes logical storage containers in light of an announcement from VMworld 2011. What VMware is looking to …
Andreessen Horowitz Invests in New Hadoop Startup
Platfora, one of the latest Hadoop distributors, announced it has closed a $5.7 million series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. In-Q-Tel, “the independent strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. intelligence community,” …
Twitter and its Legal, Freedom of Speech Issues
Twitter and the entire social media space for that matter has seen a bit of turmoil recently, to say the least. The first news concerns a 27-year-old man who was arrested in San Antonio, Texas by the FBI for allegedly making threats …
Microsoft Boosts Plans for Display Ad Market with Software Update
Software giant Microsoft is adapting to the online ad market, and is rolling out new features to its display advertising tool this month to avoid lagging behind Facebook, Yahoo!, and Google in particular. The company is putting an emphasis on helping customers …
IBM Puts the B in Big Data Overseas
IBM announced today that YLZ, a Chinese IT solutions provider, chose IBM System z mainframe (running Linux) as the foundation of a plan to extend its “citizen livelihood service information network” to seven more provinces beyond Fujian. This means the service will become …
Companies Are Starting to Realize what a Cloud Is
Paul Froutan, the chief technology officer at cloud storage startup Nirvanix, visited theCube again at VMworld 2011 (full video below – see 2nd half here). Froutan joined Nirvanix from Google, where he was in charge of operating the company’s production; the search …