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EMC veteran David Goulden lands CEO role
David Goulden, who was widely considered a top candidate to succeed EMC boss Joe Tucci before he pushed back his retirement to 2015, has finally been named CEO of the storage giant’s core information infrastructure. He previously served as the company’s president and chief operating officer. Goulden has been with EMC for 11 years, directing ...
Verizon and Oracle team up for software-as-a-service
It’s not easy being an underdog in the cloud business. Verizon is years behind the competition with its enterprise IaaS offering, while Oracle’s plan to refocus from legacy maintenance contracts to cloud services has barely even begun to materialize. Recognizing that they’re in the same boat, the two tech titans are combining their resources in ...
Apigee acquires InsightsOne to bake predictive analytics into API platform
Reigning in cloud fragmentation represents a multi-billion dollar opportunity for API management providers. But with the competition heating up, the fight for relevance is moving beyond abstracting programming interfaces. That’s the reason API management provider Apigee forayed into Big Data earlier this year with Apigee Insights, a Big Data offering that Apigee’s hoping to round out through their newly ...
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 ...