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IBM Puts Emphasis on App Development with MobileFirst
Enabling efficient development and management of mobile apps for a diverse population of mobile devices has been a major aim of IBM’s MobileFirst initiative, announced on February 21, 2013, since the start of development. This includes expanding IBM’s long-standing relationship with AT&T to team AT&T Labs and its Big Data database on app development and ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 21, 2013
Daegu Health College uses IBM MobileFirst to Support Students Daegu Health College, a health training college in Daegu, South Korea, is using IBM MobileFirst tools to design and deploy mobile apps to meet the mobile lifestyles of its students. It is using the MobileFirst platform to provide students with quick, reliable, and secure access to academic ...
IBM Announces MobileFirst Mobile Computing Initiative
IBM has announced a major mobile computing initiative, named MobileFirst, backed by new and upgraded app development, security, and management systems backed by consulting and cloud services and designed for both IBM’s large enterprise customers and the SMB market. The products and services are user-device agnostic, with a write-once, run-on-everything approach where everything means “all ...
Battlelines Drawn in the SMB Market part 2: Dell vs HP and Lenovo
Ed note: This is the second part of an analysis of the impact of the multiple announcements by major vendors in the firsdt week of February. The first part of this analysis is here. IBM’s entry into the SMB market was the first announcement to rock the SMB market on February 5. The second was Michael ...
Flash Wave Gaining Strength as Prices Drop
The flash wave is gaining momentum, driven in part by dropping prices as it moves into its sixth year, writes Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman. When the first flash storage products, from pioneers like Fusion-IO, appeared, they were focused on a very few use cases that demanded very fast data access, beyond what spinning disk could provide. ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 20, 2013
Four EMC, RSA Channel Execs Named CRN 2013 Channel Chiefs CRN has named the following four EMC and RSA Security Division executives to its 2013 Channel Chiefs listing for their commitment to accelerating partner profitability and overall success in 2012: Gregg Ambulos, EMC SVP of Global Channel Sales, Leonard Iventosch, EMC VP of Americas Channel ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 19, 2013
Microsoft Officially Launches Outlook.com Microsoft has officially launched Outlook.com, ending the preview that started more than six months ago. The announcement is anticlimactic in the sense that it already has gained 60 million users in six months, making it probably the world’s fastest growing e-mail service. Microsoft says Outlook.com was designed with a focus on ...
RackSpace Delivers OpenStack Private Cloud Environment Sans Licensing
Rackspace, known for its OpenStack-based Public Cloud IaaS service, is now offering a productized version of the software behind that service publicly as a free download, with no licensing, writes Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman. Customers can either have Rackspace run the solution for about the same cost as normal software licensing or can run their private ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for February 18, 2013
Forester Gives IBM Top Score in Enterprise Mobility Services Forrester Research Inc. has rated IBM as a Leader in enterprise mobility services in its latest “The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Mobility Services Q1 2013”. The report gave IBM the highest score overall among the 13 global enterprise mobility leaders in the report. The report says that ...
Oracle Virtualization Reduces Cores, Increases Utilization, Saves Money
A new report from Wikibon.org CTO David Floyer, based on 15, hour-long interviews with Oracle users, brings good news for CIOs considering virtualizing large Oracle installations. Go ahead. Oracle’s resistance is trivial, Oracle virtualization using popular third-party hypervisors is fairly straightforward, and the savings are very attractive. The 15 CIOs interviewed said that Oracle has taken ...