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SAP’s Latest Buy Fits Well with Mobile, Analytics Strategy
Software maker SAP has acquired human resource management SaaS provider Success Factors for $3.4 billion, a premium of 52 percent over Friday’s closing price and about 10 times more than the company’s annual revenue. Reuters reports that JPMorgan Chase & Co. will provide a loan of one billion euro, or the equivalent of $1.3 billion, ...
Box CEO Gives Insider’s Take on Consumerization of IT
Aaron Levie, the chief executive of enterprise cloud storage provider Box, provided his view on this emerging industry, its consumer market origins, and current state. His firm focuses mainly on corporate clients, powering 82 percent of Fortune 500 companies according to Levie, but the consumer market has not been left astray from his agenda. Late ...
IBM Discusses the Future of Microchips in Three New Studies
IBM’s almost legendary research capacity has been dedicated to a lengthy list of topics that often extending the current perception of IT. Today, company representatives will be attending the International Electron Devices Meeting in Washington to reveal what have been called breakthroughs in the microchip field. Specifically, the three IBM reports that will be released ...
Top Business iPad, Android Tablet Business Apps: Calvetica and Zillow
As far as business apps for the iPad and Android tablets go, Calvetia is the highlight of this week’s list. The app, available for all iOS devices, puts a new twist on a simple and oft-used concept on calendaring by blending in a number of unique elements, with an eye for graphic quality as well. ...
Electronic Arts Throws Down the Social Gaming Gauntlet with KlickNation Aquisition
Social gaming is among the fastest growing segments in this particular industry, and Electronics Arts has long ago become a contender to throne – or rather, Zynga’s throne. The company challenged Farmville’s social element back at the E3 convention and has made a couple of big acquisitions, including the $750 million buyout of PopCap this ...
Another Wireless-Cable Team Up with Verizon’s 4G Push
Verizon is taking every precaution to not fall behind other carriers with the expansion of its 4G LTE network. For the meager sum of $3.6 billion, the largest U.S carrier by market share acquired 122 advanced wireless services licenses from Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. It’s expected that Verizon’s position in the ...
This Week in Cloud: The Ship Has Sailed
This week there have been several momentous updates, a part of which are not necessarily news but are momentous developments nevertheless. The main highlight in this category is a new report by Cisco, the first in a series of Global Cloud Index studies, which cover the growth in cloud traffic over the years. The networking ...
VDI Trends: Key Influencers Drive New Solutions
Nimble Storage revealed the results of a study that asked 600 IT professionals about their current position on VDI in the enterprise. The report includes some interesting figures about the drivers and challenges that are moving this industry, which provide an opportunity to reflect on how vendors have been addressing these requirements. More than 60 ...
QLogic a Major Influence as Supercomputers Race Ahead
The 38th edition of the Top 500 Supercomputer List provided some revealing insights into the networking layer of the most powerful supercomputers running today, an area where InfiniBand solutions, a notable portion of which is provided by QLogic, are moving forward. QLogic and a fresh Wikibon study have pulled some interesting data, in addition to ...
Microsoft Revamps SkyDrive as Apple, Google Up the Ante on Consumer Cloud
Microsoft revamped its SkyDrive online file storage and collaboration platform, burying the No Downloads sign deeper into the cloud and adding other enhancements to the cloud-based service. SkyDrive’s UI has been improved to make the whole process of organizing files and folders more efficient and less clumsy so to speak, addressing on-going users ‘complaints. On ...