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This Week in the Cloud: Office 2013, Corporate Changes
The number one item from the cloud this week is probably the public preview of Office 2013, the upcoming release of Microsoft’s productivity suite. The highlight is that while the industry-leading software bundle is still very much designated for more traditional usage on the PC, there are a few very strong components that label the ...
Oracle Ups its Cloud Play with Skire Buy
Oracle’s latest acquisition is Skire, a provider of specialized cloud based software for capital and facilities management. The platform caters to a fairly broad range of industries and supports further customization with templates that can be developed in-house according to the firm’s website. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Oracle is upping its cloud play ...
IBM Finds a New Prospect in CMOs
IBM plans to capitalize on the fact that marketing departments spend a bigger cut of their revenue on information technology than IT departments, a very ambitious move that can be credited to chief executive Virginia Rometty. IBM’s first female CEO entered office in January this year. While IBM’s revenue is expected to drop by one ...
Big Data: The Advantages Exceed Early Adoption Cons
Oracle recently released a study that found many enterprises still have a long way to go before they’re able to fully take advantage of their data. Capgemini’s latest findings supplement this view from a different angle – organizations are increasingly prioritizing big data as an asset, and once realized the bottom line improvements can indeed ...
New Relic Supports OpenStack via Rackspace Partnership
New Relic made its application monitoring software-as-a-service available on the Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace. The web app is available on the host’s first generation Cloud Servers and Cloud Servers, which are powered by the OpenStack. “Organizations pursuing cloud initiatives turn to Rackspace not only because they are a trusted provider, but also because of Fanatical ...
IBM Revenue, Services Business Sluggish in Q2
IT equipment and services provider IBM reported results for the second quarter yesterday, beating analysts’ estimates with high profit and operating margin. The company reported a 6 percent increase in net income to $3.9 billion, with operating earnings per share up 14 percent to $3.51. That’s a lot more than the 10 percent rise to ...
OpenStack Celebrates 2 Years Anniversary, Rapid Adoption
This week OpenStack turned two. The open-source cloud initiative was started by Rackspace and NASA in 2010 and within 24 months, the project managed to gain hundreds of supporters and even beat a few milestones set forth by Linux. In the 84th week of OpenStack’s existence the project already had 166 different organizations supporting it. ...
Datameer Partners with Dell for Hadoop Integration
Datameer is now a part of Dell’s Emerging Solutions Ecosystem, meaning its data visualization software will be integrated with Dell Apache Hadoop Solution, the manufacturer’s core analytics solution. It’s compromised of Cloudera’s Hadoop distro and the Crowbar configuration framework which the manufacturer developed in house, and later open-sourced. Datameer’s software packs over two dozen connects that ...
Intel Reports Q2 Earnings: How Does the PC Market Fare?
Last week AMD cut its revenue guidance for the current quarter, and analysts cut their estimates for Intel. Mike McConnell of Pacific Crest Securities lowered his estimate for Intel over the weekend, expecting an increase of only 5 percent in motherboard sales. That’s not much compared to the double-digit growth that analysts’ were expecting for the ...
Will Microsoft Muddy Up B&N’s Cloud Club?
Brick-and-mortar book chain Barnes & Noble managed to outlast competitor Borders when mobile first started to shine, and transitioned to the digital era with the Nook. The e-reader is now several generations more mature and competes with Amazon’s Kindle Fire, which as of last year has had a web-based counterpart named the Kindle Cloud Reader. ...
