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Vendor Messaging Versus Business Reality in the Storage Market
The Cube’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman sat down with Randy Kerns, Senior Strategist, Evaluator Group, a Colorado-based IT analyst firm that specializes in storage and information management at this year’s Dell Storage Forum. Kerns and The Cube discussed Dell’s evolution in the storage market, the company’s strategy for the future and the state of ...
A Busy Week at SAP: Social Investments, Trial Delays and HANA’s Anniversary
SAP seems to be having a busy week. The company announced social improvements to its StreamWork collaboration solution. SAP integrated Mikogo, a desktop sharing and meeting tool, into StreamWork, which will enable users to host web conferences or share content without leaving SAP. In addition, SAP released a new StreamWork Brainstorming iPad app to iTunes ...
Dell’s Kind Of Helpful $100M Innovators Fund
Dell has launched a $100 million credit program designed to help startups finance technology purchases from Dell. The new Dell Innovators Credit Fund provides fledgling angel and venture capital backed companies a maximum of $150,000 or 10 percent of their funding in credit to acquire Dell Solutions. According to Dell, the goal of the new ...
5G WiFi the New Buzzword? Pray Tell
It’s early in the week, so why not kick the week off with a new buzzword – 5G WiFi. Computer manufacturer ASUSTeK (ASUS) has announced its G75VW model laptop, which the company designed for gaming, will support the 802.11ac WiFi standard. ASUS is billing the laptop as the world’s first 5G mobile device, but unlike ...
HP and Dell Prepare to Revive Tablet Business
Tablets have gained market traction faster than almost any other computing device. It seems everyone loves tablets. Actually it seems everyone loves Apple iPads. According to data from ABI Research, Apple’s tablet has a commanding 65 percent market share. Many of the established PC providers like Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Dell have attempted to capitalize on ...
Looking Back at HP Discover 2012
The annual HP Discover conference held June 4-7 in Las Vegas has concluded. This year’s event attracted around 10,000 attendees and had a broad focus including technology convergence, information optimization, security and risk management, application transformation, mobility and services. However, the real purpose of HP Discover was convincing anyone that would listen (including the invited ...
Citrix Bites into Mobile Infrastructure Sector with Latest Buy
Citrix has announced that it is expanding its business into the mobile infrastructure sector. Citrix is beginning the effort by acquiring Bytemobile, a company that provides mobile traffic optimization solutions. Bytemobile is a little over 10 years old and only has 300 employees. The company may be small, but it’s reach is large. 130 mobile ...
Don’t Expect to See the Red Hat of Hadoop, says Vertica VP
The Cube’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly sat down with Colin Mahony, VP and General Manager, Vertica, at HP Discover 2012 to discuss big data and how Vertica, which Hewlett-Packard acquired in 2011, is supporting the market. As we previously reported, Vertica announced a new release, Vertica 6, during the conference. According to Mahony, most ...
Microsoft Makes Big Azure Changes, Can’t Keep Mum on the Cloud
Cloud computing is the talk of the town this week. Oracle made major announcements about their cloud strategy. Hewlett-Packard announced it is working on a new offering called Enterprise Cloud Services – Virtual Private Cloud, which comes only a few weeks after the company announced a new public cloud service. Even Red Hat had cloud ...
VMWare’s New Social Enterprise Sales Strategy: Make SocialCast Free
VMWare announced its enterprise social network platform, SocialCast, is now free for up to 50 users. VMWare acquired SocialCast last summer as a component of its larger strategy to drive modernization in enterprise collaboration. VMWare may still be working toward the grand strategy, but in the interim the company has to deal with increasing competition ...