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The 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) doesn’t officially start until tomorrow, but the big players are already showing off their new products and game titles. Those of you who are not roaming the show floor as we speak can tune in to …
Big Data Review: PRISM, E-Commerce and iRadio
PRISM, the NSA’s hush-hush data gathering program, has kept political commentators and tech pundits very busy over the past few days. The gloomy revelation is still dominating headlines. On Wednesday, The Guardian published what appeared to be a copy of a fresh …
Cloud Review: Bad Manners and Acquisitions
Last week IBM showed its competitors that it plays hardball. The firm announced a multi-billion deal that will extend its cloud business into Amazon’s turf, and later thwarted a lucrative contract that the CIA had awarded to the company. The news from …
ServiceNow VP Discusses App Creation for Newbies
ServiceNow has positioned itself at the forefront of the abstraction tidal wave that’s sweeping through IT with the recent launch of App Creator, a new system that makes it much easier for users to extend their platform with custom functionality. Matt Schvimmer, …
Nutanix Lands in Australia as a Part of Global Expansion Initiative
Nutanix, an emerging provider of modular cloud infrastructure solutions, has launched its first Australian office in Sydney earlier this week. The new outlet is the eighth international office that the San Jose-based company has opened in the past 12 months. Nutanix says …
IBM Pulls the Rug from Under AWS
A $600 million contract between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Amazon has been derailed by IBM, which complained that the cloud provider has received favorable treatment from the spy agency. This week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office announced that it has …
OpenStack Startup Mirantis Receives $10M Boost from IT Leaders
The rapid adoption of OpenStack in the enterprise has not gone unnoticed by the movers and shakers of the IT industry. The big vendors are elbowing each other for every chance to grow their presence in the open-source community, and there is …
Accenture Scores Former HP Labs Boss Prith Banerjee
Accenture revealed that it has hired IT superstar Prith Banerjee to head its research and development arm, which “looks at the future of enterprise IT and makes recommendations for how companies can take advantage of technology.” As the new managing director of …
Panzura Ready to Scale Early Success with Open Frameworks, Raises $25M for Application Network Storage
Panzura, a Campbell, California-based provider of enterprise cloud technology, just announced that it has closed a $25 million funding round led by late-stage investor Meritech Capital Partners. Existing backers Matrix Partners, Khosla Ventures, Opus Capital and Chevron Technology Ventures also contributed in …
SAP Picks Up E-Commerce Startup Hybris
Business intelligence behemoth SAP just acquired Hybris, a provider of cross-platform e-commerce and financial data management solutions. The Zug, Switzerland-based firm says that its software is used by over 500 enterprises, including General Electric, Thomson Reuters, Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), and Ericsson. …