Maria Deutscher
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Data-Driven Smart Grid Infrastructure on the Rise, Outsourcing Too
Utilities is one vertical that’s not exactly ahead of the curve when it comes to IT, but there is a definite shift towards modern infrastructure – smart meters in particular. Unlike the traditional home energy monitors, smart meters can be used to gain better insight into customer behavior – sensors can detect outages and other ...
Accenture Boosts IPTV Buy with Nokia Siemens Assets
This week IT consultancy Accenture acquired rights for some of Nokia Siemens Networks’ IP broadcasting software and related assets, which apparently include NSN 20 employees across the U.S and Europe. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Accenture is making a move to beef up its existing line-up for video content providers. That is compromised ...
How Can Microsoft Take Over Tablets? Make them Better than PCs
It’s a big week for Google – the company surpassed Microsoft on the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the second largest tech firm by market cap after Apple. It’s a troubling time for Microsoft, as cloud and mobile trends continue to shift away from Microsoft’s core technology and services. GOOG was up one percent at ...
How Do You Empower a Knowledge-Based IT Infrastructure? Unisys Takes on Royal DMS
How to you empower an entire, knowledge-based workforce through IT? As we move into the era of software-defined enterprise architecture, changes made in the IT department are boosting productivity across the company as a whole. Services are getting smarter as software becomes self-aware, enabling a business to learn more about its own processes and make ...
Broadcom Puts NetLogic Buy to Use, Reveals Speedy Chip for New Era of Networking
Late last year Broadcom paid $3.7 billion for NetLogic, a maker of chips and other silicon products designed specifically for networking environments, and this week it unveiled the first product that’s based on technology from the firm. The new 28-nanometer processor is faster, more economic and handles big data workloads better than the competition, according ...
The Winners and Losers in Nokia’s New Map Deal with Oracle
Our very own Kristen Nicole made an appearance at the SiliconANGLE News Desk with Kristin Feledy to discuss the recently announced partnership between Nokia and Oracle (full video below). The database giant’s enterprise customers will now have access to Nokia’s mapping technology, and Kristen views the collaboration as a big opportunity for both firms. Nokia first ...
Oracle OpenWorld Day 1 Recap: More Databases & Lock-in, Nokia Maps Team Up
Oracle OpenWorld kicked off yesterday, with the company releasing a big batch of updates they’d saved up for the event. The big highlight was Larry Ellison’s hour-long keynote entitled “Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together: Why It’s A Different Approach.” Ellison provided long-anticipated details on all the major products that Oracle has lined up for ...
This Week in Big Data: Precog Funding, MongoDB NoSQL Lectures, and More
This week features the usual handful of updates from analytics vendors, including Precog – an up-and-coming big data startup. Its service entered open beta this Monday. Precog, which has $2 million in the bank thanks to a recent funding round, offers a cloud-based framework that enables all sorts of apps to leverage their structured and ...
Fusion-io CEO Wants More Choice in Flash Market, Hails NetApp Team-Up
Fusion-io co-founder and chief executive David Flynn was one of the attendees at the NetApp Customer Day mini-event at VMworld 2012. The executive discussed his company, the partnership with NetApp and flash storage in an interview with Wikibon founder Dave Vellante (full video below). The Cube alumnus said that it his company has seen sales ...
This Week in the Cloud: New Apps and a $25M Surprise
A handful of cloud service vendors had big news this week. Among them is ServiceSource, a cloud service provider that’s making a strong appeal to the industry at large. ServiceSource helps tech firms manage their recurring revenue. This week the company introduced a new hosted toolset that covers analytics, operations, CRM and a couple other ...