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ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 5, 2013
HP Announces BoD Changes HP has announced that Raymond J. Lane has stepped down as chairman of the board, to be replaced on an interim basis by Ralph V. Whitworth. The Board is searching for a permanent non-executive board chairman. Additionally John H. Hammergren and G. Kennedy Thompson have decided to leave the board after ...
Windows Server 2012 Insufficient to Support Software-Led Storage
Windows Server 2012 has some nice storage management features, notably ODX, which reduces server and network overhead, and Trim/Unmap, which reclaims unused storage space. But, writes Wikibon Lead Analyst and Cofounder Dave Vellante in his latest alert, overall it is insufficient to support software-led storage, a key part of IT infrastructure virtualization and the use ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 4, 2013
UniCredit Contracts Accenture to Enhance, Manage Invoice Management UniCredit has partnered with Accenture to help optimize the bank’s invoice management operations, including all activities related to UniCredit’s accounts receivable, accounts payable, asset management, and expense payment functions. The service will be delivered through a jointly owned entity, Accenture Back Office and Administration Services S.p.A. that ...
Clouds on Intel’s Horizon Darken as 64 Bit ARM Open Door for HP Moonshot to Land in Hyperscale Data Centers
The appearance of Google glasses and other wearable smart devices, and the April 2, 2013 announcement from ARM Holdings and TSMC of the tape-out of the 64-bit A57 Cortex processor chip, has caused Wikibon CFO David Floyer to further decrease his already dismal projections for Intel’s future. In his latest Alert, “Intel Nightmare Worsens with ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 3, 2013
IBM Honors Eight New IBM Fellows on 50th Anniversary of Program IBM marked the 50th anniversary of its Fellows program by elevating eight employees to IBM Fellow for their innovations in areas including cloud and mobile computing, big data, and business analytics. Only 246 individuals have earned this designation in the companies history. The new ...
IBM Big Data Announcements Move in Right Direction but More Must be Done
IBM has a tremendous portfolio of Big Data products and services, including both acquisitions and technologies developed in house like Watson, writes Jeff Kelly in his Alert “IBM Accelerates Its Big Data Portfolio”. And it has embraced the Open Source Big Data community, at least at the foundational level, particularly with its BigInsights Hadoop platform. ...
IBM “Big Data at the Speed of Business” Announcement Challenges Oracle DW with Advanced Comprehensive Big Data System, 25X DB2 Analysis Acceleration
IBM has taken up the Big Data Challenge with a multilayered announcement promising fully integrated, enterprise-grade Hadoop/PureData systems that are orders of magnitude simpler to set up and manage and provide up to 25X performance increases. The announcements include a fully integrated Hadoop appliance incorporating the complete new IBM Big Data stack that one Beta ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 2, 2013
Semphonic Joins E&Y LLP, Expands Digital Measurement Digital measurement & data analytics consultant Semphonic has joined Ernst & Young US. Semphonic is focused on providing Fortune 500 clients with insights into complex customer interaction challenges they may face across the digital channel. It brings an expansion of E&Y’s analytics department says Andy Rusnak, principal and ...
Five Questions CIOs Should Ask Cloud Service Providers
“IT services are becoming more about risk management than technical ability, particularly as organizations adopt cloud services,” writes Scott Lowe in his latest Professional Alert. In line with that thought, and as a follow on to his last Alert defining five important questions CIOs should ask internally before adopting cloud services, Lowe discusses five vital ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for April 1, 2013
Project Runway Stays with HP, Intel for Fifth Season The popular Lifetime show “Project Runway” showcased HP’s innovative technology as it started its new season at the end of March. This is the fifth consecutive season that it has used HP and Intel technology, demonstrating the role that technology can play in the creative arts. ...