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Infographic: The Transformation of HP
Hewlett-Packard is going through a hardware-to-software transformation under head Leo Apotheker, who has been serving as chief executive for less than a year. The company needs to tackle a number of factors if it wants to be successful with its massive venture, including the need to further grow and develop its capitalization of the software ...
Cisco’s Restructuring Involves Global & Financial Expansion, and Grilled Cheese
Cisco has not been doing too well in the last four quarters, and now that its stock slid by over 30 percent, CEO John Chambers is making some changes. In addition to eliminating the slow council-based management mechanism it once used, Cisco is also reshaping its outbound strategy. The company is now focusing more on ...
HP Takes Software Angle to New Heights: webOS Everywhere
Leo Apotheker, CEO of Hewlett-Packard for less than a year now, spoke at the D9 conference. He discussed many things, including webOS, and some of his company’s plans in the consumer and non-consumer markets. Right at the start of his interview with AllThingD’s Walt Mossberg, Apotheker said that HP is looking to “position itself at ...
Permabit Adds 4 New Patents to Existing Portfolio
OEM embedded data storage company Permabit announced on the company blog that it has been awarded four new patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office, adding up to a patent portfolio size of 23 in data deduplication, protection and archiving as well cloud storage. “We have invested heavily in research and development over the ...
Nirvanix Accelerating Private Cloud Adoption Faster than Traditional Players
The private cloud has gained a lot of interest throughout the past few years, and most CIOs recognize the value of such a deployed. A private cloud offers several benefits traditional IT infrastructure doesn’t, such as greater cost-efficiency, the ability to migrate data between on-site and off-site locations safely, access to a secure multi-tenant public ...
Oracle Donates OpenOffice.org to Apache Foundation
Oracle has passed control of the OpenOffice.org code base to the Apache Software Foundation Incubator project. OpenOffice.org is Microsoft Office’s main competitor, and is one of the most popular productivity software products on the market. “Donating OpenOffice.org to Apache gives this popular consumer software a mature, open, and well established infrastructure to continue well into ...
HP Still Believes in webOS, Takes Apple Approach to Hardware & Software
Hewlett-Packard is currently reshaping itself into a more software-oriented company. Speaking at the D9 conference today, chief executive Leo Apotheker offered a glimpse into HP’s plans for webOS. It seems to be following the same course Apple is – providing full-bundle consumer products, including hardware and software – an end-to-end ecosystem. “We want to create ...
SAP and Cisco Team Up in Southwest Asia
German business software maker SAP announced that is it is boosting its Southwest Asia strategy, and will be offering SAP HANA on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) server platform for customers in Malaysia. The big data analytics trend is expanding on a global scale following the lad of the consumer data boom, and demand ...
NYSE Launches First Cloud Platform in Financial Sector
The New York Stock Exchange today announced the launch of a new cloud platform that lets traders lease computing power from NYSE’s new northern New Jersey locale. The platform, the first of its kind in the financial sector, was developed in a team-up with EMC and VMware. The Capital Markets Community Platform is designed to ...
Metamarkets Raises $6M to Boost Ad Big Data Analytics
Metamarkets, a two year old startup that offers publishers better inside data by analyzing the huge quantities of data produced as they sell, just closed its latest round of funding. The company has secured $6 million in the round, which was led by Roger Ehrenberg’s IA Ventures with participation from most of the company’s existing ...
