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Trapit Tops This Week’s Business Tablet App Roundup
Trapit is an AI coupled with a newspaper app that aggregates content that the user is interested in from around the web and not just from social networks. This is where the artificial intelligence kicks in: the service automatically customizes this personal stream based on engagement, and this week Trapit rolled out an iPad version. ...
The Cloud is Still Big, and so is Cloud Piracy
The Business Software Alliance and research firm Ipsos Public Affairs published a report about the state of cloud services in the consumer space and within the enterprise. The study polled 15,000 computer users in 33 countries and came up with a few statistics that reiterate the cloud is more than just a passing fad. The second ...
This Week in Big Data: Social Data, Visualization and Log Management
There were a few interesting analytics-related updates this week, starting with Salesforce’s new service. The popular SaaS provider debuted Radian6 Insights, a tool that promises to analyze social media data and present it in such a way that can benefit an organization. Users can use it to identify things like customer demographics and reactions to ...
Dell Puts Aside $60M for Big Data Storage Startups
Michael Dell was one of the speakers at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, and he elaborated on the newest element of his company’s storage company. Dell is evolving. The hardware vendor, which makes most of its income from selling desktops to consumers and organizations, is shifting towards higher-margins areas such as data center ...
This Week in the Cloud: Office 2013, Corporate Changes
The number one item from the cloud this week is probably the public preview of Office 2013, the upcoming release of Microsoft’s productivity suite. The highlight is that while the industry-leading software bundle is still very much designated for more traditional usage on the PC, there are a few very strong components that label the ...
Oracle Ups its Cloud Play with Skire Buy
Oracle’s latest acquisition is Skire, a provider of specialized cloud based software for capital and facilities management. The platform caters to a fairly broad range of industries and supports further customization with templates that can be developed in-house according to the firm’s website. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Oracle is upping its cloud play ...
IBM Finds a New Prospect in CMOs
IBM plans to capitalize on the fact that marketing departments spend a bigger cut of their revenue on information technology than IT departments, a very ambitious move that can be credited to chief executive Virginia Rometty. IBM’s first female CEO entered office in January this year. While IBM’s revenue is expected to drop by one ...
Big Data: The Advantages Exceed Early Adoption Cons
Oracle recently released a study that found many enterprises still have a long way to go before they’re able to fully take advantage of their data. Capgemini’s latest findings supplement this view from a different angle – organizations are increasingly prioritizing big data as an asset, and once realized the bottom line improvements can indeed ...
New Relic Supports OpenStack via Rackspace Partnership
New Relic made its application monitoring software-as-a-service available on the Rackspace Cloud Tools Marketplace. The web app is available on the host’s first generation Cloud Servers and Cloud Servers, which are powered by the OpenStack. “Organizations pursuing cloud initiatives turn to Rackspace not only because they are a trusted provider, but also because of Fanatical ...
IBM Revenue, Services Business Sluggish in Q2
IT equipment and services provider IBM reported results for the second quarter yesterday, beating analysts’ estimates with high profit and operating margin. The company reported a 6 percent increase in net income to $3.9 billion, with operating earnings per share up 14 percent to $3.51. That’s a lot more than the 10 percent rise to ...