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This Week in Cloud: Economics with Cost Monitoring, Open-Source Software
Cost efficiency and high utilization belong to the list of the top drivers behind enterprise cloud migration, so this area has naturally not been left untapped. Two different companies have announced updates in this space throughout the past week, including Cloudability. Cloudability is a new startup that takes high utilization to the next level by eliminating human ...
Former HP CEO Scandal Lives On, Confidential Letter Revealed
An eight-page letter sent by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred to Mark Hurd on behalf of Jodie Fisher has been published by Mercury News. Both parties requested that the letter remain confidential, but a Delaware court ruled last Wednesday that it be made public. The letter has become the the center of controversy during the legal battle ...
Non-Security Vendors Investing in this Area as Cyber Threat Looms
Last year was been a very strong indicator of the pace hackers are adopting to traditional security measures. In 2011, a number of hackers even managed to take a few organizations and governments by surprise, including Sony and EMC’s RSA. This is a part of the reason some of the biggest vendors in the IT ...
TOTAL for iPad Tops Weekly Business Tablet App List
Tablets and app developers have found their way into a variety of industries that make use of the advantages that come with mobile and remote functionality. One of those segments is real-estate, where the iPad in particular has made itself a reputation thanks to a number of apps. This week’s roundup features one of those ...
Hadoop’s Ecosystem Transformation: Making Waves in 2011
Hadoop has come a long way this year. At first Cloudera had something that resembled a by-default monopoly as one of the only high profile providers of commercial Hadoop distribution, but now MapR, Hortonworks and others are looking to change that. The rest of the ecosystem changed as well, with the introduction of new code ...
IBM Dives into the Analytics Space with 2011 Milestones
This is the follow-up post to the yearly roundup of IBM’s biggest developments in 2011, looking into the company’s drastic expansion of its analytics portfolio in the past 12 months. SiliconANGLE has been covering the particularly notable advancements in big data the Big Blue made all throughout the year. Picking up from where we left ...
It’s A Holiday for Amazon, Samsung with High Sales Numbers
Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Samsung’s Galaxy Note evidently gained a lot of popularity during the holiday season. The online retailer sold over 1 million Kindle units per week for the past four weeks. The new Kindle Fire accounted for the bulk of the device sold, followed by the Kindle Touch and the original Kindle. Amazon ...
A Year in Cloud: From Analytics to iCloud
The past year has been a significant one for the cloud industry. Both enterprises and consumers have realized the potential of the technology, and vendors across both sectors have done their best to push as much innovation and marketing into this concept as possible. SiliconANGLE picked the top five cloud stories from this year and ...
A Green, Mobile Year for IBM’s Cloud
It’s safe to say that 2011 was a milestone year for Big Blue. The company churned out some significant advancements during the pas 12 months, and managed to make gains in a number of areas. One of them was the appointment of a new head, choosing of Virginia Romett as the successor of previous CEO Sam ...
SAP Skirts Antritrust Issues with Success Factors, Bright Year Ahead
SAP has come a long way in the past year, expanding into new rapidly growing areas in hopes of boosting revenue. The software maker has been modernizing its portfolio to address current trends among enterprise customers, and M&A played a key role in this strategy. This month the company announced one of its most significant ...