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ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 11, 2013
Aurasma Passes 16,000 Customer Mark HP Autonomy’s augmented reality platform, Aurasma 2.0, has passed the 16,000 customer milestone and added new cloud and social features from SXSW. Aurasma allows people to use rich images instead of text or QR codes to turn search into an action-oriented interactive experience. Customers including GQ, Marvel, Subaru of America ...
A Little Investment in Infrastructure Can Save Huge Amounts on Oracle Licensing
A $100K investment in server and storage improvements can save about $2M off the three-year total cost of a large Oracle deployment, writes David Vellante in the latest in a Wikibon series on Oracle licensing optimization stretching over two years. The reason that a relatively small investment in infrastructure, and specifically on areas like increasing ...
IBM Announces Success in Watson Case Competition
IBM has announced a successful conclusion to a special competition it ran recently with students at the University of Southern California to generate creative ideas for applying the unique Watson natural language cognitive system to real-world problems. More than 100 University of Southern California students gathered in the debut West Coast competition to meet the ...
IBM’s Watson Tackles the Challenge of Improving Outcomes for Cancer Patients
Ed. Note: This is the first of a three-part series looking at how IBM is applying its advanced Watson natural-language cognitive system technology, arguably the world’s most sophisticated Big Data query engine, to the challenge of improving the level of care and outcomes for patients with some of the most intractable and most complex cancers, ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 8, 2013
EMC, VMware Host Strategic Forum for Institutional Investors EMC Corp. and VMware Inc. will hold their 2013 Strategic Forum for Institutional Investors Wednesday, March 13, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time. Keynote speakers will include Joe Tucci, EMC chairman and CEO and VMware chairman; Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO; David Goulden, EMC president and COO; and Paul ...
EMC Strong but Self-Limiting in Crowded Flash Array Storage Market
EMC’s combination of the latest ExtremeIO all-flash array technology, its own strengths in services, and its excellent world-wide support makes it a strong contender in a crowded market that includes all the large IT hardware players, writes Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer in “Flash-only Arrays at Full Gallop”. But it has limited itself in ...
Intel, Greenplum Validate Hadoop Market
If anyone had any doubts that the Hadoop market is a blooming money tree, the back-to-back Hadoop distribution announcements by Greenplum on February 25 and Intel the following morning ended them, writes Wikibon Analyst Jeff Kelly in “Intel Validates Hadoop Market”. The Intel announcement is particularly interesting, even in an increasingly crowded market that includes ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 7, 2013
EMC Brings Vatican Apostolic Library into the Digital Age EMC Corp. is providing 2.8 Pbytes of storage to support the Vatican Apostolic Library’s project to digitize its entire catalogue of historic manuscripts and incunabula. One of the oldest libraries in the world, the Vatican Apostolic Library holds many of the rarest and most valuable documents ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 6, 2013
TCS Research Shows Airlines Overtaking Energy Companies in Targeting Mobile Consumers Energy, telecom, and airline companies are leading in spending on reaching customers through their mobile devices according to the New Digital Mobile Consumer global trend report commissioned by Tata Consultancy Services. The research reveals that average expenditure within the companies surveyed in these sectors ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 5, 2013
HP Data Exchange Helps Manufacturers Improve Product Safety and Recycling Hewlett-Packard GmbH has announced the HP Compliance Data Exchange (CDS) system to help manufacturers in such areas as shipbuilding, aerospace, and electronics eliminate hazardous substances, improving product safety and recycling rates. Based on the HP-hosted International Material Data System (IMDS) in the automotive industry, HP ...