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AMD CFO Stepping Down, Devinder Kumar Named Interim Replacement
Thomas Seifert is stepping down from his position as AMD’s chief financial officer. Seifert has served as CFO since 2001 and has left his post to pursue other opportunities, according to a bare-bone release that the chipmaker published this week. Seifert, who played a very important role in the company both as CFO and as ...
Oracle Writes Checks Instead of Code: SelectMinds Buy Adds to Social Strategy
Oracle is competing with SAP and Salesforce over the hearts of corporate users, and is hoping to gain a competitive edge via aggressive non-organic growth. Underscoring this agenda is Oracle’s acquisition of SelectMinds today – terms of the deal were not disclosed. SelectMinds offers a cloud-based recruiting platform that relies on social media to spread the word. ...
HP Recognizes Need to Compete with Apple in Design Department
Hardware giant Hewlett-Packard has changed its mind a few times in recent years, especially when it comes to ultrabooks and mobile devices. In response to the negative impact of mobile on global demand for PCs, the company – led at the time by Mark Hurd – acquired Palm and with it the webOS platform for ...
ShareFile Tops This Week’s iPad Business App Roundup
The latest edition of Citrix’s ShareFile enterprise collaboration app made it to the top of this week’s roundup of business apps for your iPad and Android tablets. The company rolled out several new powerful features for both admins and end users that significantly improve the service: these include more control over users’ data, an offline ...
What You Missed in Big Data: New Software, Splunk Conference and HFOBD
A couple of major product updates in big data crossed the wire last week, along with highlights from Splunk’s annual conference and word of a new project called The Human Face of Big Data, which couples analytics with crowdsourcing. First up, EMC unveiled a partnership Alpine Data Labs. Alpine will integrate its cloud-based predictive analytics ...
This Week in the Cloud: Hosted Dashboards, Funding and Tech Support
This past week has proven to be anything but stale with product launches, funding and a notable acquisition – a little bit of everything. The first update comes from ComodIT. The Belgian startup launched its first product this week, a cloud management platform that goes by the name of Synapse Agent. It’s a command line ...
SAP’s Sneak Peak into its Next Generation Mobile Platform
SAP co-CEO Jim Snabe disclosed some of the new features that will be available with an upcoming release of its Sybase Unwired Platform, set to launch at the SAP SAPphire conference in Madrid a couple months from now. Snabe outlines a strong emphasis on customization with the latest version, an increasingly vital component now that ...
HP and Intel to Create a $10M Green System for the NREL
Hewlett-Packard are collaborating on the development of an eco-friendly data center for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab. The NREL will make use of the high-performance computing environment to gain “progressive and deeper understanding of biological and chemical processes.” The whole project will set the government back by $10 million. The system ...
Brocade Tech Day Wrap Up: They Missed their Own Deadline but Still Ahead of Rivals
SiliconANGLE CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Stu Miniman just did a wrap up of Brocade Tech Day. The even has proven to be a very interesting one so far, with new products meant to reinforce the company’s position in the Ethernet market. Miniman started by reflecting on Brocade’s history. Thanks to a number of acquisitions ...
Most Companies Can’t Find Their Big Data. Here’s How Silverlink and Splunk Help
Silverlink Technologies CEO Stefan Wieczorek stopped by theCube with Jeff Kelly and Jeff Frick at this week’s Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference (.conf2012) to chat about his company, the underlying software, and the big data vertical as a whole. Silverlink is a Brazilian-based service provider that specializes in Splunk. Its offering portfolio spans from pre-sale to ...