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GE picks up API Healthcare to round out Industrial Internet vision
GE is is investing heavily to lay down the foundations for Industrial Internet, its vision for a global network of “smart” machines that will provide a constant stream of real-time sensory data for minute-by-minute visibility into operations. But there’s more to analytics than just collecting and storing information, which is why the engineering giant chucked ...
Accenture gobbles up Germany’s ClientHouse for a seat on the Salesforce bandwagon
Top IT vendors have been cozying up to Salesforce lately in a bid to catch up on the industry-wide shift to the cloud, but Accenture is having none of it. The consultancy is reasserting its dominance in the CRM giant’s partner ecosystem with the acquisition of ClientHouse, an eight-year-old implementation company based in Jena, Germany. ...
SolidFire vying for ecosystem prominence as OpenStack matures
OpenStack is at a crossroads. Already in its fourth year, the project is hailed by supporters as a private cloud alternative to AWS without the lock-in, but there remain significant gaps between vision and reality. In particular, the lack of coherent leadership has led to fragmentation in the ecosystem, spawning a dizzying array of largely ...
QLogic and Brocade team up for SAN + Gen 6 FC
Modular appliances that collapse compute and storage into a single resource tier are taking the enterprise data center by storm, but QLogic doesn’t see hyperconvergence vendors like the recently funded Nutanix disrupting its traditional revenue streams any time soon. The network equipment maker announced this morning that it has joined forces with Brocade to develop ...
HP gives up on Windows 8 in latest push to regain relevance
Hewlett-Packard is not doing things the Microsoft way anymore. In a move that directly undermines the software giant’s efforts to rekindle demand for Windows 8, HP has shifted its marketing focus back to Windows 7. As part of a new promotion bearing the slogan “back by popular demand,” the struggling hardware maker is offering $150 ...
Cloud computing isn’t a threat to IT jobs, says analyst | #VTUG
Tony Asaro, a longtime industry analyst and the founding CEO of INI Group, appeared on theCUBE at the recently concluded Virtual Technology Users Group (VTUG) Winter Warmer summit to discuss the changing dynamics of enterprise IT with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Cloud computing is the first item on the agenda. Asaro reports that ...
OpenStack, convergence + flash rapidly transform IT : Big vendors adopting | #VTUG
Last week, for the first time since its inception eight years ago, the Virtual Technology Users Group (VTUG) Winter Warmer conference wasn’t just about VMware. The more than 1,500 practitioners who attended the event split their attention between multiple platforms, a change reflective of the industry-wide shift, to a multi-hypervisor approach. This trend underscores the ...
Oracle and Salesforce’s love-hate relationship takes a twist with new connector
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is putting his old grudges aside as part of an effort to loosen Amazon’s monopolistic grip on infrastructure-as-a-service and establish a foothold in the public cloud market. Recognizing that it needs all the help it can get, the database giant is making new friends and even warming up to arch-nemesis Salesforce. ...
Weekly Security review: retail hacks continue + more NSA snooping
Last week, we learned that the security breach that hit Target during the holiday season was much more severe than previously believed. An internal investigation concluded that hackers have gotten away with financial information, phone numbers and email addresses belonging to as many as 110 million customers – a cyber theft of historical proportions. But ...
Internet of Things review: Google buys Nest, doubles down on smart eyewear
Google is sparing no expense to extend its web dominance over the Internet of Things. On Monday, four weeks after buying out robotics engineering company Boston Dynamics, the search behemoth announced that it has entered an agreement to acquire Nest Labs for $3.2 billion in cash. Nest, which earlier this month secured $150 million in ...