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Servers Follow PC Downturn, At Least for Manufacturers
Hewlett-Packard and Dell, two of the biggest server and PC companies –as well as two long-time rivals – have turned their attention away from their established sector, a low-margin market that is seeing steadily declining demand caused by users’ shift to mobile devices. HP is even thinking about selling off its $41 billion PC business, ...
Another HP Exec Joins DataDirect Networks
Erwan Menard of HP has joined DataDirect Networks as the company’s new chief operating officer, a position created specifically for him to fill. DataDirect is a big data storage company that has been growing in a very rapid pace, and beefing up its management team is a good way of supporting its current direction. “We ...
SAP’s Inherited Lawsuit with Oracle Reaches Settlement
The legal battle between Oracle and SAP has been raging on for three years now, and the most recent update adds one more point to the former’s side of the scoreboard. In 2008 Oracle sued TomorrowNow, a company that provided support for its software and became an SAP subsidiary when the latter acquired it in ...
Hewlett-Packard’s Latest Software Push: Security
Hewlett-Packard is attempting to get over its PC stage under new chief executive Leo Apotheker, in light of the declining market demand and the continuously growing, higher margin enterprise space. That’s the market HP has set its eyes on, and software is set to play just as a big of a role as hardware in ...
Primary Data Optimization: Wikibon Tackles Another Tough Topic
We’re all well aware that big data is driving innovation at the enterprise and startup levels, but beyond recognizing big data needs and its industry impact, we must now determine how to best implement it. To this end, Wikibon announced late last week that co-founder and theCube co-anchor David Vellante will serve as the moderator ...
Patent Reform Impacts IT: More Trolling, or Innovation?
A decade-old bill that is referred to as an almost complete overhaul of the current U.S patent system is expected to receive final congressional passage this month, the WSJ reports, and there are mixed reviews. Here’s the extract: The bill, which passed a key Senate vote Tuesday and is expected to get President Barack Obama’s ...
Dell Adds Former White House Chief of Staff, Others to Board
Hardware giant Dell is the latest tech company that has added new members to its board of directors. According to a newly released announcement, Janet Clark, Laura Conigliaro and Ken Duberstein are the three execs that are joining the board. “Janet Clark, Laura Conigliaro and Ken Duberstein collectively bring extensive experience in finance, accounting, IT ...
VMware Invests in Storage, Talks Private Cloud
There’s been recent talk concerning VMware’s direction moving forward, especially now that VMworld is over and the company’s presented more of its goals around virtualization. That includes logical storage containers in light of an announcement from VMworld 2011. What VMware is looking to do is getting Logical Units (LUNs) and NFS mount points out of the ...
Andreessen Horowitz Invests in New Hadoop Startup
Platfora, one of the latest Hadoop distributors, announced it has closed a $5.7 million series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. In-Q-Tel, “the independent strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the U.S. intelligence community,” also participated in the financing round. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Scott Weiss will ...
Twitter and its Legal, Freedom of Speech Issues
Twitter and the entire social media space for that matter has seen a bit of turmoil recently, to say the least. The first news concerns a 27-year-old man who was arrested in San Antonio, Texas by the FBI for allegedly making threats against Marissa Mayer , one of Google’s first employees and now VP of local, ...