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ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 4, 2013
Telefónica Vivo Brazil Builds Mobile on HP Telefónica Vivo, the largest mobile operator in Brazil, is building new mobile services for millions of subscribers on HP technology. Telefónica delivers landline, VoIP, broadband, and mobile services to more than 80 million subscribers throughout Brazil. To reduce time-to-market for activation of 3G mobile and 4G long-term evolution ...
Four Issues Keep CIOs from the Cloud
While CIOs express numerous concerns when discussing trusting mission-critical applications to the Cloud, they really boil down to four primary issues, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe. As a consultant and former CIO himself, he writes from experience. Those issues are the risk of outages, the lack of skills and understanding of how Cloud services work, ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for March 1, 2013
Dell Delivers Video Effects on Deadline for Jack the Giant Slayer Award-winning visual effects (VFX) studio Soho VFX used Dell’s media and entertainment systems to deliver 214 visual effects shots on tight deadline without sacrificing quality for the March 1, 2013 opening of Jack the Giant Slayer fantasy-adventure film. Soho VFX used Dell Precision T3500 ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 28, 2013
HP Streamlines HUD Housing Complaints with New Mobile App HP Enterprise Services has announced a new mobile app for the U.S. department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The application allows citizens to easily access useful information regarding housing discrimination, file complaints with HUD, and find regional contact information via their iPhones. HP developed the ...
Center of Value Shifting from Software to Data, Says O’Reilly
Just as the PC revolution was about hardware becoming commoditized and inexpensive and software becoming rare and very valuable, the Big Data revolution is about software becoming inexpensive – in many cases free – while data has become the new major source of value. Big Data has had a major impact on the financial industry ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 27, 2013
RSA Applies Big Data to Risk Analytics to Transform Enterprise Authentication The just-announced RSA Authentication Manager 8 adds a new risk-based authentication option that leverages Big Data analytics to help organizations achieve a higher level of identity assurance in enterprise, cloud, and mobile environments. The new version combines the RSA SecurID one-time password technology with ...
ServicesAngle Press Releases for February 26, 2013
HP Announces Security Research Organization HP has announced formation of the HP Security Research (HPSR) organization, a new group that will provide actionable security intelligence through published reports, threat briefings, and enhancements to the HP security product portfolio. It also released findings from the HP Cyber Security Risk Report providing insight into the vulnerability landscape ...
ServicsAngle News Briefs for February 25, 2013
EMC Introduces Pivotal HD Apache Hadoop Distribution EMC has announced what it says is the world’s most powerful Apache Hadoop distribution, Pivotal HD, the integrated EMC Greenplum massively parallel processing (MPP) database technology natively with the Apache Hadoop framework. The EMC Greenplum-developed HAWQ technology brings a decade of large-scale management research and development to the ...
The Mobile Office: IBM MobileFirst and the Mobile Management Quandary
The mobile office is clearly here to stay. Even in its present primitive, first generation form it is already improving office morale and individual productivity at very small cost to the organization. To the C-Suite, where it all started when senior execs brought their new iPhones, and later iPads, to work and started using them ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 22, 2013
HP 1Q13 Earnings Better than Expected, Still Down from 1Q12 HP has reported network revenue of $28.4 billion, down 6% from prior year, but better than predicted in previous guidance. First quarter non-GAAP diluted earnings per share are $0.82, down 11% but above the guidance of $0.68 to $0.71. First quarter GAAP diluted earnings per ...