Maria Deutscher
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The cloud industry represents a constantly maturing and expanding trend, and it seems that every spark of innovation can trigger quite a bit of interest from some of the biggest players in IT. This phenomenon is the main driver behind the exceptional …
Oracle vs. Google: Judge Removes Vast Majority of Claims
Oracle and Google have been clashing in court over alleged Android and Java-related infringements on seven of Oracle’s patents. And now, it turns out that Google won the latest battle. The California judge handling the case, Hon. William Alsup, has released an …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …