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Cloud industry starts 2014 off on the right foot
The cloud is poised for rapid growth in the enterprise, with more and more CIOs embracing hybrid models to keep pace with the growing number of devices and applications in the Internet of Things. John McAdam, the president and CEO of F5 Networks, expects this trend to swing into high gear in 2014 across both ...
HP targets EMEA customers with the POD 20ce | #HPDiscover
Overwhelmed with the amount unstructured information coming in from outside the firewall, CIOs are scurrying to find the talent and technology solutions they need to effectively tap into their growing troves of data. Like most of its peers, tech giant Hewlett-Packard is trying to capitalize on this trend with a multi-pronged product strategy spanning the ...
Stealth startup Pushd secures more funding for mysterious product
Pushd, a San Francisco-based stealth startup with rock star social networking talent, has bagged another $1 million from anonymous investors last week, an SEC filing picked up by VentureBeat reveals. The funding brings the company’s total capital raised to $2.35 million. Established in 2012, Pushd is led by Abdur Chowdhury, who made a name for ...
HP’s David Scott on the different flavors of enterprise storage | #HPDiscover
As senior vice president and general manager of HP Storage, David Scott is at the forefront of industry change, with a finger firmly on the pulse of enterprise demand. In his latest appearance on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, the executive went in-depth on the storage trends he will be focusing on in 2014 and beyond with hosts ...
Facebook CIO on analytics in the knowledge economy | #HPDiscover
Second only to Google in digital ad revenue, Facebook is setting an example for the enterprise in leveraging web-based data sources to drive business value. Tim Campos, the social networking behemoth’s CIO, sat down with HP Software head George Kadifa at the manufacturer’s recent Discover event in Barcelona to tell attendees and theCUBE viewers how ...
IBM: Christmas Day sales fueled by record mobile traffic
The explosive growth in mobile data traffic contributed to a 16.5 percent increase in overall Christmas Day sales, IBM has found, with smartphones and tablets accounting for nearly half of all e-commerce activity. That’s up from 28.3 percent in 2012, a jump that can be attributed to the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things ...
Mobile will continue to dominate in 2014, insiders agree
With the smartphone revolution soon entering its sixth year, the Internet of Things is fast becoming a reality. As SAP global vice president of mobile strategy Bill Clark explained, technology vendors can no longer afford to ignore mobile when pursuing growth in the ever-crowded enterprise market: platform-agnostic applications are the next frontier for user experience, ...
New report shows government cloud adoption on the rise despite challenges
Pressured to meet new objectives on increasingly tight budgets, more and more government agencies are turning to the cloud in pursuit of operational efficiencies. MarketsandMarkets estimates that federal demand for private, public and hybrid solutions will balloon over the next few years as historically bureaucratic and slow moving departments work to catch up on social ...
Larry Ellison to take AWS head on
With hardware sales down 25 percent and cloud bookings up more than a third, Oracle faces a new set of priorities and more competition than ever, founder and CEO Larry Ellison acknowledged during his firm’s second quarter earnings call. The database giant has committed to following rivals IBM and SAP in transitioning beyond legacy IT ...
Looking ahead in Big Data: industry heavy hitters weigh in on the future of analytics
It’s been an exciting 12 months for IT, with disruptive new trends once confined to the open source community finally cracking the surface of the traditional enterprise. We can expect to see more of that in 2014, a year that the industry’s most prominent voices agree will mark a turning point for technology innovation. At ...