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Cisco Overhauling Management In light of Skidding Market Share
Cisco’s stock skidded by roughly 34 percent in the past year or so, and after four very weak quarters, CEO John Chambers is carrying out his intentions, which he outlined in a memo he sent out a few weeks ago. Chambers has established a council-based management structure back in 2005, which was designed to enhance ...
Failed Phone Authentication Costs Companies Money: ClickFox Report
Analytics company ClickFox released its latest Customer Experience Analytics Insights report, which focuses on customer service phone systems. It turns out that 10 percent of all customers are transferred to an agent due a failed authentication attempt by the system. Assuming that each such call would cost a company $5, the firm reckons that closing ...
Cisco Introduces its First Datacenter Container
Today Cisco made a serious push in the datacenter hardware market, introducing its first ‘datacenter in a shipping container’ offering. This move represents a huge leap for the networking giant, who has now intensified its competition with one-stop-shop datacenter providers HP, Dell, and IBM. Cisco’s offering supports 16 racks with up to 25kW of power ...
EMC, VMware Step it Up a Notch
There have been quite a bit of product launches going on in every segment of the cloud lately, and EMC and VMware are the latest ones to join that list. Storage giant EMC announced a lineup of new tools and products designed for virtualized Windows environments. The company introduced 3 new offerings including EMC Storage Integrator, which ...
New Online Media Shows Promise and Profit for AOL, Beyond
The internet is evolving, and so does media as a whole. We’ve seen a couple of significant markers of that this past 24 hours, starting with AOL. The internet company had its earnings call today, and display ad revenues were up four percent. Overall ad revenues were down 11 percent due to its shrinking international ...
Shaky Start for VMware Cloud Foundry: 2 Outages
VMware’s beta open-source PaaS offering, the Cloud Foundry, has experienced not one, but two outages. That’s never a good sign for a cloud company, and while the virtualization giant’s Cloud Foundry is a new project, though has been powering it for years. The first Cloud Foundry outage lasted for 10 hours, and was caused due ...
Where’s the Mobile App Market Headed?
At the AppNation conference in San Francisco this week, research firm Nielsen’s Jonathan Carson, CEO, Telecom unveiled some fresh research on the U.S. mobile apps market. The study strengthens Android and IOS’s status as the two most dominant mobile OSs, and sheds some light on consumer trends. Nielsen reports 36 percent of Americans currently own ...
Oracle BI Aims for iPad, Mobile Enterprise
Today Oracle released the latest version of its Business Intelligence software. Business Intelligence Release 11.1.1.5 comes with full iPad and iPhone support, and eliminates the need to rewrite existing dashboards and reports, according to the company. Users can now access and carry out all the actions via their iOS device they would be able to ...
Hometown Layoffs After Novell Deal Finalizes
The Attachmate Group finalized its $2.2 billion buyout of network industry pioneer Novell a few days ago. The latter will be separated into two separate business units, one focused on the Novell brand and the other on the SUSE Linux brand. Now, we’ve learned of the latest Novell move by the Attachmate Group – it ...
mBlast Data Giveaway Takes Cue from Open Cloud Trends
Today we’ve learned that mBlast, a developer of cloud-based marketing applications, launched the free version of its mPact solution. mPact is a product which aggregates big data from Facebook, Twitter, blogs and other websites to determine the top influencers and voices for the topic selected by the user. The offering brings together the cloud and ...