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IBM Faces Oracle’s Grudges, Grows in Banking, Healthcare Markets
IBM had a few noteworthy updates in the past few days. The first one comes not from IBM, but rather from Oracle. Oracle reported its earnings for the second quarter yesterday, disappointing investors and raising concerns that its lower software sales may be an early indicator of a decline in short-term IT spending. That had ...
Wikibon’s Networking Predictions for 2012: Protocols, Key Influencers
Wikibon published a report about the outlook of Ethernet and Fibre Channel in 2012, highlighting the main trends likely to drive the market throughout next year. Adoption of server 10GbE may speed up, thanks to Intel’s upcoming Romley chip, according to some experts who believe it may rise to as much as 50 percent. This ...
Intel’s Big Mobile Plans at CES: New Phone Design
Intel has been lagging in the mobile space lately. In contrast to its position in the server and PC markets, the company has an almost negligible share in the handset and tablet industries, though it has been planning to improve that for the last couple of years. The chipmaker is going to make a big ...
Yahoo’s Tax-Free Shares Sale May Haul in $18 Billion
Yahoo! is looking to generate some extra cash from its assets in Asia, specifically a part of its 40 percent stake of Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, and its entire 35 percent portion of Yahoo! Japan. The news has not yet been confirmed, but this move makes sense – Yahoo’s ad business is staggering behind ...
SAP Integrates with Google, Releases Cloud Case Study
SAP and Google are embarking on an extensive partnership that will focus mainly on the integration of the former’s subscription-based Business ByDesign ERP suite with Google Apps. A pilot is set to launch in the third quarter of 2012, intitally available only to customers in the U.S, UK and France. Bernd-Uwe Pagel, senior vice president ...
Insider Leak Reveals Dell’s Plans around Force10, Networking
Brad Hedlund, a former Cisco employee who’s currently working with the now Dell-owned Force10, suggested in a blog comment that Dell is becoming ambitious in the networking space. In the post picked up by Business Insider, Hedlund said that the objective is to undercut Cisco’s prices on networking gear and offer the cheaper Force10 products. ...
Verizon Copes with Outages while Pursuing Network Gains
Today Verizon have suffered the second major outage within the past two weeks. Customers have reported their issues via the carrier’s support forums and Twitter. Verizon’s data network is down in various areas of coverage in the U.S, and users are having trouble getting connected, or are dealing with much slower access. The Verge reports ...
Oracle Earnings Slow, Tech Industry May Soon Follow
Oracle’s earnings for its second quarter ending in November disappointed shareholders, as speculations arise that the company’s lower sales may be a part of a broader trend that may soon impact the rest of the tech industry. The software maker reported a net income of 54 cents per share, compared to Wall Street’s average expectation ...
Zayo’s New, Green Fibre Solutions for the Datacenter
Fiber infrastructure solutions provider Zayo said it has completed a project to integrate a fiber build into Green House Data’s Wyoming facility. The company operates a SSAE 16, Type II data center that’s the first of its kind in the state, and offers hosting services and colocation services. As the name would imply, the owners ...
Google Invests in Solar Power, Facebook Adopts Green Trend
Tech companies are getting more eco-friendly. Several of the biggest names on the web and in social media have been carrying out similar plans on a very large scale, Google and Facebook being the latest examples. The search giant is hedging $1 billion in green investments now that it has injected $94 million into the ...