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Kognitio Extends Platform to Amazon Web Services
Kognitio, a company that offers an in-memory big data analytics platform, made its software available on AWS this week. This opens up its product to smaller customers that may not be interested in a particularly large deployment, as well as ones that do but find the AWS model more appealing. The cloud-optimized service named Kognitio ...
Fusion-io Collaborates with Academia to Enhance DRAM
Last year Fusion-io introduced Atomic Writes, technology that reduces writes to only one process rather than two, and the company’s revealed their latest innovation – Extended Memory. This subsystem is the result of a joint project with Princeton and is also available as a part of Fusion’s software development kit. The difference lies in what ...
Microsoft’s Tablet Push Gets Bigger (Literally) with Pixel Buy
Microsoft is getting into the hardware business. It’s so confident in Windows 8 and Surface, its own branded tablet that will run on the mobile-optimized OS, that it is willing to risk a huge backlash from its biggest OEMs. And this week we learned just how serious the software kingpin, and perhaps soon to be ...
Analysts a Bit Chided Ahead of VMware’s Upcoming Earnings Call
Researchers at Wunderlich cut the firm’s target price on VMware from $120.00 to $100.00 in a report sent out this week ahead of the virtualization software maker’s upcoming earnings call on July 23rd. They retained a buy rating though, and other analysts’ also revised their take in recent months. Several other analysts have also recently commented ...
QLogic Earns a Channel Boost with Inspur Reward
Today networking solutions vendor QLogic got some free promotion from Inspur, a Chinese OEM that named it as “Supplier of the Year for Support.” The Inspur Group’s business spans software and hardware, mainly servers and storage. QLogic is one of the top partners and, apparently, earned the highest scored in every single category that was ...
Gartner: IT Spending to Reach $3.6 Trillion, Sluggish for Services
Gartner released its forecast for worldwide IT spending today, with expectations that this market will increase by 3 percent this year to $3.6 trillion. That’s half a percent more than what the research firm predicted in a report from the previous quarter. That isn’t enough for a change in terminology though. Gartner sees ‘lackluster growth’ ...
TV Price Fixing Suit Concludes with another $2M in Fines
Back in 2009 a lawsuit was filed against no less than seven different manufacturers of LCD monitors over alleged price fixing. In 2011 a court ruled that these companies have to pay $553 million in refunds and legal damages, and Samsung and Sharp were ordered to pay the lion’s share of it. The latter had to ...
Emulex Pays Broadcom $58 Million to Settle Core of Patent Lawsuit
The disagreement between Broadcom and competitor Emulex reached a major milestone over the weekend, when the latter agreed to pay $58 million in order to take the fibre channel patents listed in the suit off the table. After it failed to push through with a hostile takeover of Emulex in 2009, Broadcom decided that its ...
Top 10 Best (and Worst) Cities for IT Job Seekers
Simply Hired is a job site that claims to serve 30 million monthly users living in 24 different countries, and its latest employment statics report for the month of June reveals some interesting facts about the IT job market in the U.S. The paper provides the names of the top 10 places for job seekers in ...
Mind Mapping Apps Top this Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup
This week’s roundup has two featured apps, both of which happen to be in the same category. MindNode for iPad and MindJet for Android are two mind-mapping apps that respectively offer a unique twist to the same concept, which is providing users with an environment that lets them put ideas on paper (so to speak) ...
