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This Week in the Cloud: Oracle, Workday IPO and More
Oracle’s annual event OpenWorld is one that really stood out this week. The 5-day event at San Francisco was packed with product updates, but it was Larry Ellison’s big keynote was what really made a mark. During his lengthy speech the CEO announced a number of new products, along with new direction for his company. ...
Hewlett-Packard Not Selling EDS, But Should
Hewlett-Packard’s stock is down more than 12 percent at a 10-year low of $14.91 after the company said it expects profit for fiscal year 2013 to be between $3.40 and $3.60 per share. Wall Street’s’ consensus estimate was a considerably higher at $4.18 a share. CEO Meg Whitman tried to do some PR damage control ...
SAP’s Big Data Solution for Amazon Wannabes: HANA for B&M Stores
Business intelligence kingpin SAP launched Precision Retailing on Tuesday, a solution that offers customers an Amazon-like experience at the point-of-sale with item recommendations and custom suggestions. The software is joined by a new app, the Retail Store Ops Manager, which was also unveiled at this week’s SAP Retail Forum North America. “Today’s companies want ...
QLogic Q2: an Opportunity to Restore Optimism
QLogic plans to announce financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2013 later this month on the 25th, according to a statement. Last quarter QLogic failed to meet analysts’ expectations with net income of $18.4 million, or 19 cents per share, on sales of $131.3. Revenue in the first quarter of fiscal year ...
Why Mobile and Direct Monetization Will Get Facebook 2 Billion Users
In her latest appearance on the News Desk SiliconANGLE editor Kristen Nicole discussed Facebook’s recent announcement that it has reached one billion active monthly users, and the company’s outlook (full video below). Kristen Nicole considers the milestone a very significant one, and credits it in great part to the ecosystem: Facebook has become the de ...
To Be Blue You Have to Be Green. It’s All About the Watts!
John Hengeveld, the head of marketing for Intel’s supercomputer business, discussed high-performance computing, innovation and big data with John Furrier at the annual Intel Develop Forum conference. Hengeveld, stressing this year’s slogan “in order to be blue you have to be green,” said that today his unit is all about delivering the most performance per ...
Quantcast Open-Sources HDFS Alternative
Audience measurement software maker Quantcast just made a very notable contribution to the open-source community – it released the Quantcast File System (QFS), a “higher performance alternative” for the Hadoop Distributed File System. QFS is fully integrated with Hadoop, uses as little as half the disk space that HDFS would require, and offers better IOPS ...
sqrrl Cozies Up to Big Data Elephants Hortonworks and MapR
sqrrl is collecting Big Data partners almost as fast as an actual squirrel collects nuts. Today, the Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up behind Accumulo, an open source NoSQL database with a focus on security and scalability, announced a new relationship with Hadoop distribution vendor Hortonworks. Accumulo is now being certified to run on the Hortonworks Data Platform, ...
Networking Should Be a Focal Point for Oracle and Rivals, says Analyst
Telecommunications analyst Lee Doyle stopped by theCube at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld for a chat with SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante, to talk about the company and its plans as far as software-defined networking goes (full video below). Doyle agrees with the industry consensus that SDN is big, but he is ...
Oracle OpenWorld Day 3: New Telco Appliance, PeopleSoft Update and Java 7
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took stage on Sunday at OpenWorld and revealed the next generation Exa machines and the 12c database software, along with his company’s plans to pursue a services strategy, and lastly, a big partnership with Nokia. Thankfully the one-hour long opening keynote hasn’t stopped Oracle from keeping the remaining four days of ...