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IBM’s $7 Billion Cloud Agenda, and Some Mobile Testing along the Way
IBM CFO Mark Loughridge said in a 2011 interview that his company’s revenues from cloud services will pass the $7 billion mark in 2015, and in 2012 Big Blue’s path to achieve this goal is becoming clearer. This is at least what InfoWeek’s Charles Babcock believes – here’s a summary of the future he has ...
Infochimps Rounds Out Platform with Dashpot
Earlier this year big data marketplace operator and tools maker Infochimps unveiled an enterprise data-as-a-service offering for managing large scale analytics, which is offered as a hosted solution or an on-premise license. This week the Infochimps Platform has been brought to another level with the launch of Dashpot, a dashboard that runs on top of ...
Auto HTML5 Switches for Mobile Ads with Jivox Update
Jivox is the developer of an interactive mobile advertising platform that lets marketers create their own ads using the solution’s self-dubbed “rich graphical user interface.” And today the company updated its flagship offering with some new features that aim to add a lot of extra functionality. Simplification is a big highlight, and Jivox managed to ...
How to Appeal to Your Developers in the Mobile Era? Team with Appcelerator Platform
Outsourced R&D provider GlobalLogic and Appcelerator, the developer of the Titanium mobile dev platform, announced a curious new alliance. The two companies will be integrating their engineering muscle, GlobalLogic’s 6,000 developers and Appcelerator’s massive partner and user ecosystems, to extend Titanium and as a result achieve a good bit of mutual benefit. GlobalLogic has implemented ...
HotLink Upgrade Extends Cross-Hypervisor vCenter
HotLink offers a solution called SuperVISOR for VMware, a rather appropriate title considering what it does. It extends vCenter in a way that transforms it into a centralized platform that can be used to manage multi-hypervisor environments, with support for not only VMware software but also Hyper-V, XenServer and other alternatives. Today the company unveiled ...
QLogic Unveils 10GbE OEM with Fujitsu
Networking gear maker QLogic announced a reseller agreement with Fujitsu today that puts its 8200 Series 10GbE converged networking adapters into the latter’s ETERNUS storage systems. QLogic thinks very highly of its embedded target controller, and here some of the reasons why. The company says the fact its 3GCNA products are all one-chip-based means they’re ...
More Growth Expected for EMC Earnings Report
Storage vendor EMC, ranked the top vendor on several research firms’ charters for the industry, will report its earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 this month. The results are due in about ten days. Historically speaking, EMC is more than likely to continue its growth streak, a goal that the company successfully realized last ...
Top iPad, Android Tablet Apps for Business: Desktop Connect Leads the Pack
This week’s featured app is Desktop Connect. It doesn’t exactly compensate for any lack of this type of solutions on the App Store, but it does introduce a very broad range of powerful functions that differentiate it from most others, if only by quality. iPad Desktop Connect Desktop Connect promises to deliver, and it does. ...
This Week in Big Data: IBM & Hadoop, and the Public Sector
This past week in big data has seen some astronomical developments, for the most part from the Square Kilometer Array telescope. The project is kicking into high gear now that the the various international acidic institutes involved in the project are starting to turn to the IT industry for the solutions they need. DDN was ...
This Week in the Cloud: Open-Source, VMware and SaaS
This past week in the cloud featured a number of developments, a big portion of which tie in with the open-source movement. Free and vendor-agnostic alternatives to proprietary offerings are really picking up momentum, especially the few products that are spearheading this trend’s growth. One of them is Cloud Foundry, the open PaaS created by ...