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According to our sources VMware’s Rick Jackson is stepping down from his current position as chief marketing officer. He will continue to serve as the virtualization giant’s CMO until a replacement is found. An earlier report from TechCrunch stated that VMware’s Jackson …
HP Driving Enterprise at Industry Analyst Summit : Breaking Analysis
Hewlett-Packard invited some 250 industry analysts to Boston this week, where the company’s top brass surveyed strategy and current market positioning. Wikibon senior analyst Stu Miniman attended the event, and went over the highlights with Kristin Feledy on this morning’s NewsDesk segment (full …
Bugs Will Always Plague Mobile Software. What’s It Mean for Android?
A Samsung device owner recently discovered a method to bypass the login screen and gain full access to his phone without ever entering a password. The technique relies on a flaw in the native emergency call feature that could potentially be abused …
The Storage Food Chain: Mission Critical Workloads will Move to All-Flash, Hybrid
Flash has been a revolutionizing technology impacting enterprise and consumer storage alike. From the data center to the USB port, flash storage has introduced new capabilities for storing and sharing data. And this week’s been particularly huge for flash technology, given the …
Apple, Google Taking Different Paths to Music Subscription Cloud
The latest Apple rumor is that CEO Tim Cook and Eddy Cue, the company’s head of internet products, met with music producer and entrepreneur Jimmy Iovine during a trip to Los Angeles last month. Lovine is the co-founder of audio technology firm …
VCE Proves a Solid, Long-Term Investment for EMC
The verdict is finally out, according to Wikibon senior analyst Stu Miniman: VCE is more than just short term project for EMC. The converged infrastructure vendor sells Vblocks, end-to-end systems that feature solutions from its parent companies: EMC storage, Cisco servers and …
Amazon Responds to Rivals (Again), Slashes Cloud Rates by 28%
This week Amazon introduced new price reductions for Reserved Instances that run Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Jeff Bar, the Chief Evangelist for Amazon Web Services, announced the good news in one of his latest posts on …
Dell’s Largest Independent Shareholder Says Privatization “Favors Management”
Southeastern Asset Management, Dell’s largest outside stakeholder, disapproves of the proposed $24.4 billion sale of the company to founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners, a prominent investment firm. In a letter to Dell’s directors, Southeastern’s lawyers wrote that the board “appears …
SAP Appeals to More Markets, on Pace to Hit $26 Billion by 2015
Bill McDermott, the co-chief executive officer of SAP, promised investors that the firm wills double its revenue by 2015 over a year ago. This week Jim Hagemann Snabe, the BI giant’s other co-CEO, reiterated his colleague’s pledge in an interview. The executive …
Scringo Launches Free Feature Repository for Mobile Developers
Scringo, an emerging mobile startup that aims to improve developer productivity, just launched its software into general availability. The company offers a platform-agnostic SDK that covers the “3 Rs” of mobile application development: reach, retention and revenue. Scringo’s feature repository includes components …