Oracle has a habit of indulging into dramatic conflicts. After it won over SAP in a billion-dollar suit, the company is now going after HP as it puts grit in the latter’s Itanium machines when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems. SAP and IBM even tied up with each other to bring down the company. With Oracle ...

There is no better way to respond to AT&T’s big exposition last week but to announce a dreamy 100G project in the United States, brought to you by no less than the fiercest competitor, Verizon. This speedy technology is expected to hit selected parts of the country before the end of the 2nd quarter of ...

By this time, there is no doubt in my mind that cloud is a perfect platform for emerging players. Zetta, a leading provider of enterprise cloud storage services founded in 2008, is one of the companies that easily grabbed the attention of the tech community and recently received $11.5 million funding from investors to expand ...

When people talk about Big Data, the picture has armies of servers along with the possible expenses, all of which could be overwhelming. But, in reality it is not. Having Big Data and Analytics, saving cost for the company, aligns with the ideals of cloud computing, as virtualized systems can operate more efficiently and at cheaper rates. ...

Leo Apotheker inherited a controversy-plagued organization. But, the former SAP CEO is serious in implementing strategies to relinquish obstacles and reboot HP, getting involved with partnerships that would translate to more revenue. Today, Hewlett Packard Mexico announced the closure of the $100 million deal with bottler giant, Coca-Cola (in Mexico). The technology outsourcing services run for ...

Google’s Honeycomb code-release setback is not alone in the “OS update tardiness” category. Microsoft issues a public apology for slow development on its Windows Phone 7 program update. The common weak link from these letdowns: relying on carriers and third party to take responsibility of updates—a lesson learned early by Apple, which seized ownership of ...

When Eric Schmidt stepped down as Google’s main man last January, all hopes to rekindle the spark within the organization was alighted as founder Larry Page took over. However, there seemed to be no change in Google, even after Schmidt assumed another post (plus $100 million in stock) and sidelined to look after partnerships, customer ...

Substantial development and growth within the cloud market appears to be one of the hottest topics within the tech community, not to mention its involvement towards the future of big data. At the WHD 2011, Graham Crich of VMware shares his idea of cloud and its market today and foreseeable future. Crich’s speech was so ...

Being an established, independent mobile advertising network, InMobi examines its 5 billion monthly ad requests and how it will be affected by consumer ad impressions within the US soil. The result of the study shows a new party will emerge and will overthrow Verizon at the frontier. Obviously, this “new party” is the company that ...

Companies are nesting within tons of data of their customers. And when you talk of big data it is not limited to just enterprises within the tech community. Banks, hospitals and insurance companies now are faced with the reality of the need to manage the massive information that they have from their clients, customers, partners ...