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Express Metrix CEO Weighs in on the Pros and Cons of SAM Software
Software asset management (SAM) becomes an increasingly important priority for IT departments as their organizations grow. Beyond a certain point, it’s impossible to comply with all the licensing terms of each version of every single application without a proactive and comprehensive SAM strategy. Kris Barker, the co-founder and chief executive officer of Express Metrix, highlights ...
Microsoft Loses Trademark Dispute Over Skydrive
Microsoft found itself on the receiving end of copyright law enforcement on Friday after a London judge ruled that its popular Skydrive service is in violation of the “Sky” trademark owned by British Sky Broadcasting Group. Sky is the largest satellite television provider in the UK and Ireland with over 10 million subscribers. Microsoft argued ...
HP Seeks Android Alternatives to Re-Enter Smartphone Race
According to Yam Su Yin, HP’s senior director of consumer PCs and media tablets for Asia-Pacific, the tech juggernaut is once again eyeing a share in the heavily crowded smartphone market. The executive told The Indian Express that the company is looking to double down on all segments of the mobile market, including tablets, notebooks ...
Bytes Sized: Putting Big Data into Perspective
To say that information technology has come a long way in the past few four decades would be an understatement. On Visual.ly, a San Francisco-based startup that connects data experts, designers and marketing professionals, we find an infographic entitled “Bytes Sized” to help us gain a better understanding of the journey from the early days ...
Rackspace Helps CERN Unlock the Mysteries of the Universe
Rackspace has teamed up with the European Organization for Nuclear Research to develop a federation service that connects its platform-as-a-service solution with OpenStack and the Rackspace Private Cloud architecture. According to the company, its developers will collaborate with CERN’s openlab unit and a “full-time member of the CERN personnel team” to create a reference architecture ...
IBM to Make New York’s Lake George the “Smartest Lake” in the World
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Fund for Lake George commissioned IBM to build a sophisticated monitoring system that will help scientists gain new insights into the lake’s ecosystem. Big Blue said that it will provide the hardware, software and know-how needed to assemble a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster at Rensselaer’s Margaret A. and David M. ...
Hadoop Summit Recap: Who Will Come Out Ahead in the Race to Zero?
TheCube stopped by Hadoop Summit in San Jose to bring you the latest news and analysis from the Big Data ecosystem. Near the end of Day 1, SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly assembled for a special discussion about the industry and the intense price competition in the Hadoop ...
CIOs Need to Become More Active, Visible to Fix IT
Bridging the gap between a company’s IT organization and business users is a daunting task, but not an impossible one. Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, argues that it is within the CIO’s power to prove that IT is an “equal and capable business partner” so long as he or she receives a ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Amazon Hot on the Heels of Microsoft
This week, Microsoft announced that a leading provider of cloud-based automation software added its solution to the Azure marketplace, and Amazon revealed that it has allied with GE to analyze sensory data from a wide range of devices in AWS. WANdisco also got a spot in the limelight after it launched its S3-enabled analytics platform, ...
Weekly Big Data Review: It’s All About Abstraction (and Hortonworks)
The Big Data space saw a lot of activity this past week. Hortonworks nabbed $50 million from investors, Datameer unveiled software that can churn out insights faster than any data scientist, and Splunk introduced a tool that ingests information on the fly. Pentaho also grabbed a few headlines after it introduced a vendor-agnostic platform that ...
