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Dell launches new portfolio of enterprise services for Salesforce
Michael Dell is beefing up his namesake firm’s consultancy lineup as part of an ambitious plan to reduce the vendor’s dependence on the sale of personal computers and establish a foothold in the lucrative enterprise cloud market. Now, a month after introducing a set of specialized services for companies in regulated industries, Dell is jumping ...
Deep dive into cyber governance and policy making with Charles Sennott | #MITECIR
Cybersecurity and internet governance were at the top of the agenda at this week’s MIT ECIR Workshop, which brought together leaders from both academia and the IT industry to discuss the impact of digital technology on the physical world. Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly kicked off the event live on theCUBE with Charles Sennott, ...
IBM struggling to monetize Watson
IBM’s Watson is set to generate one billion dollars in revenue by 2018, a transcript leaked to the Wall Street Journal reveals. But CEO Virginia Rometty has much bigger ambitions for the Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer. The executive reportedly told her team she was looking to hit the $10 billion mark in that timeframe, a seemingly unreachable ...
VMware gets new CTO
A couple days after snatching two top execs from Citrix and promoting company veteran Kit Colbert to CTO of End-User Computing, VMware is continuing its executive shuffle with the appointment of Ben Fathi as chief technology officer. The move doesn’t come as too big of a surprise seeing that he was next in line for ...
Top vendors gobble up 3 startups in 2 days to strengthen enterprise grip
This week kicked off with a flurry of exits in the enterprise IT space, a rapidly changing market that is being squeezed by consolidation as big vendors gobble up their smaller rivals. Microsoft got in on the action yesterday with the acquisition of self-service support specialist Parature for a reported $100 million. The Virginia-based Parature ...
Broadcom boosts bandwidth-intensive workloads with new 5G Wi-Fi SoCs
Networking semiconductor maker Broadcom is something of a trendsetter, having been the first vendor to introduce quad-combo 802.11n chips and 5G transceivers with gigabit Ethernet. Before that, the company helped establish Bluetooth as a mainstream technology and pioneered the set-top industry, to name just a few of the achievements it racked up over its 23-year ...
HP jumps into CES gadget craze with new all-in-ones
Hewlett-Packard can’t boast of being on the bleeding edge of wearable technology like some the other exhibitors at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show, but the hardware giant still has its PC mojo. The company introduced four new all-in-one devices ahead of the event’s kickoff in Las Vegas, most notable of which is the Android Jelly ...
Cloud Elements introduces unified API for top cloud lockers
Integration is becoming an even bigger priority for CIOs as end-users move more of their files to the cloud while pulling in growing amounts of unstructured data from external sources. The subsequent need for business processes that extend beyond the firewall is fueling demand for automated connectivity services that unify information access across on- and ...
Cisco moves content delivery platform to the cloud at CES 2014
A year after exiting the home networking market with the sale of Linksys to Belkin, Cisco is as determined as ever to gain a foothold in the living room, but this time around the networking giant is focusing exclusively on service providers. Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the company unveiled a ...
Personal Cloud heats up at CES after Lenovo jumps into the fray
Personal cloud storage is one of the major highlights of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, with companies both big and small elbowing each other for the media sharing spotlight. The newest contender is Lenovo, which pulled the curtains back on a fashionable external hard drive dubbed the Lenovo Beacon Home Cloud ...