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Weekly Cloud Review: IT automation and virtualization
ServiceNow is doing its part to move the public cloud deeper into the traditional enterprise with an online ITSM platform that consolidates traditional IT silos into an easily manageable and highly automated single system of record. Last week the firm broadened its value proposition with a new tool that aims to change the way customers ...
Weekly Big Data review: vendors get creative with analytics
Growing Big Data adoption is driving new use cases for gathering, processing and communicating information, as Hewlett-Packard demonstrated this week at its Barcelona conference. The technology titan took the wrapper off HP Earth Insights, a highly specialized analytics solution that lets ecologists work faster and more efficiently. The offering runs a custom dashboarding solution called ...
Internet of Things review: smartphones and smart glasses
The open source community wants in on the Internet of Things. Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth revealed on Monday that his firm has found a go-to-market partner for Ubuntu Touch, a high-end smartphone powered by a repurposed version of world’s most popular desktop Linux distribution. The entrepreneur didn’t disclose the name of the company, only describing ...
Dell flaunts Cloud alliances + $300M startup commitment at Dell World 2013
At this week’s Dell World 2013 summit in Austin, Michael Dell gave attendees a glimpse into his plans to catch up with the cloud and reinvent his namesake firm. The newly privatized computer maker is repositioning itself as an enterprise vendor in a bid to regain technology dominance, a journey with its fair share of ...
BloomReach inaugurates partners : Readying experts for e-commerce + search
BloomReach, an emerging, data-driven marketing specialist with $41 million in the bank, has garnered significant industry support for its plans to disrupt Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The startup today took the lid off an expansive ecosystem that spans both practitioners and major enterprise vendors, including heavy hitters such as IBM and SAP. This morning’s announcement introduces two ...
ClickFox says consumers prefer to shop online
Thanks to a tidal wave of disruption led by the proliferation of mobile devices, crowded malls and packed aisles are making way for seamless – and indeed more pleasant – online shopping experiences. In its second annual Holiday Customer Service Audit, ClickFox provides fresh insight into the state of e-commerce and the steps brick-and-mortar businesses ...
EMC: companies recognize Big Data benefits, but barriers remain
Decision makers worldwide overwhelmingly agree that data insights improve decision making, but they still face challenges in effectively implementing and leveraging analytics, a new study by EMC has found. The enterprise storage vendor surveyed 10,700 execs and practitioners from 50 countries to find out what’s holding companies back from pursuing their goals. Nearly 80 percent ...
SAP lures developers to HANA with hosted app environment, open source contributions
Now that developers have become a dominant driver of technology adoption in the enterprise, SAP is reevaluating its priorities for HANA. At its TechEd practitioner conference in Bangalore this week, the business intelligence giant introduced a hosted IDE that aims to radically simplify the creation of backend applications on top of the speedy in-memory database. ...
VMware injects analytics into virtualization lineup
While Hewlett-Packard is busy wooing HP Discover attendees with new cloud solutions and converged systems, VMware is continuing on its journey to move up the increasingly commoditized virtualization stack in pursuit of sustainable margins. The EMC subsidiary is rolling out IT Business Management Suite 1.0 Standard, an analytics tool that provides data center operators with ...
Dell enters Chromebook fray with low-cost educational laptop
Dell has arrived fashionably late to the Chromebook party with the introduction of a less-than-$300 laptop featuring Google’s cloud-powered operating system and complementary software. Designed for use by students and teachers, the Dell Chromebook 11 comes with fourth generation Intel Celeron 2955U processor, 16GB of flash storage and either 4GB or 2GB of RAM depending ...