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QLogic Earns a Channel Boost with Inspur Reward
Today networking solutions vendor QLogic got some free promotion from Inspur, a Chinese OEM that named it as “Supplier of the Year for Support.” The Inspur Group’s business spans software and hardware, mainly servers and storage. QLogic is one of the top partners and, apparently, earned the highest scored in every single category that was ...
Gartner: IT Spending to Reach $3.6 Trillion, Sluggish for Services
Gartner released its forecast for worldwide IT spending today, with expectations that this market will increase by 3 percent this year to $3.6 trillion. That’s half a percent more than what the research firm predicted in a report from the previous quarter. That isn’t enough for a change in terminology though. Gartner sees ‘lackluster growth’ ...
TV Price Fixing Suit Concludes with another $2M in Fines
Back in 2009 a lawsuit was filed against no less than seven different manufacturers of LCD monitors over alleged price fixing. In 2011 a court ruled that these companies have to pay $553 million in refunds and legal damages, and Samsung and Sharp were ordered to pay the lion’s share of it. The latter had to ...
Emulex Pays Broadcom $58 Million to Settle Core of Patent Lawsuit
The disagreement between Broadcom and competitor Emulex reached a major milestone over the weekend, when the latter agreed to pay $58 million in order to take the fibre channel patents listed in the suit off the table. After it failed to push through with a hostile takeover of Emulex in 2009, Broadcom decided that its ...
Top 10 Best (and Worst) Cities for IT Job Seekers
Simply Hired is a job site that claims to serve 30 million monthly users living in 24 different countries, and its latest employment statics report for the month of June reveals some interesting facts about the IT job market in the U.S. The paper provides the names of the top 10 places for job seekers in ...
Mind Mapping Apps Top this Week’s Tablet Business App Roundup
This week’s roundup has two featured apps, both of which happen to be in the same category. MindNode for iPad and MindJet for Android are two mind-mapping apps that respectively offer a unique twist to the same concept, which is providing users with an environment that lets them put ideas on paper (so to speak) ...
This Week in Big Data: Case Studies from Finance, Gov’t, and Social Media
A few interesting stories surfaced this week that help shed better light on some of the lesser-covered companies of those willing to harness their customer data. A lot are in a privileged position in this regard, including most in the financial services industry – one of the fastest ones to get knack-deep into the whole ...
Big Data Appliance Firm Clustrix Raises $6.75M
Clustrix is a startup that ‘NewSQL’ databases – its distributed DB software runs in a self-contained and pre-configured box’s that can easily be added to an existing deployment, and don’t require any out of the ordinary in-house talent to maintain. Clustrix received $6.75 million from investors Sequoia Capital, USVP, and ATA Ventures. It raised $12 ...
This Week in Cloud: M&A, Services and a Couple of Blunders
This week acquisitions were announced by VMware and Sony, Xeround announced a big product to its service and – most notably – Cisco and Amazon proved once again that the cloud is not bullet-proof. A few days ago VMware acquired DynamicOps, a firm that makes software that allows customers to manage multiple cloud environments from ...
Juniper’s Revamped Partner Program, Addresses Channel Demands
Juniper Networks competes with Cisco and other vendors over a rapidly evolving networking market that’s being heavily influenced by trends such as the mobile enterprise and cloud computing. Partners account for a very significant part of the company’s revenue, and Juniper decided to give this aspect of its business a boost by overhauling the Partner ...