Kognitio Extends Platform to Amazon Web Services
Kognitio, a company that offers an in-memory big data analytics platform, made its software available on AWS this week. This opens up its product to smaller customers that may not be interested in a…
Fusion-io Collaborates with Academia to Enhance DRAM
Last year Fusion-io introduced Atomic Writes, technology that reduces writes to only one process rather than two, and the company’s revealed their latest innovation – Extended Memory. This subsystem is the result of a…
Microsoft’s Tablet Push Gets Bigger (Literally) with Pixel Buy
Microsoft is getting into the hardware business. It’s so confident in Windows 8 and Surface, its own branded tablet that will run on the mobile-optimized OS, that it is willing to risk a huge…
Analysts a Bit Chided Ahead of VMware’s Upcoming Earnings Call
Researchers at Wunderlich cut the firm’s target price on VMware from $120.00 to $100.00 in a report sent out this week ahead of the virtualization software maker’s upcoming earnings call on July 23rd. They retained…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…