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HP Creates Converged Cloud Unit for Agility, Support
Hewlett-Packard upgraded the status of its converged cloud business to a full-fledged unit, according to AllThingsD. The newly announced group will be headed by Saar Gallai, the current senior vice president and general manager of converged cloud. Gillai joined HP in 2010 as the CTO of its networking business after the company’s acquisition of 3Com, ...
The Two Types of Funded Startups that will Survive, or Crash in Our New Economy
We’ve survived the apocolypse and the fiscal cliff, but many still wonder what this new economy means for investments in the tech sector. Venture capitalism is one of our founder’s favorite topics, so if there’s a camera and a microphone around, SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier could talk about investments all day. He made an appearance on ...
A Look Back at HP’s Recent PC Strategy + Payoffs
At CES last week we got a chance to see exactly what’s behind the buzz in mobile: every major manufacturer launched at least one smartphone, tablet, phablet or some other mobile device with its own unique branding. But while the personal computer was not the center of attention by any stretch of the imagination, it ...
Two Decade Patent Reign for IBM, and a More Polite Watson
According to patent research firm IFI, IBM filed more patents than anyone else for the 20th year in a row. The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued 253,155 patents in 2012, an all time high that beats the number of patents handed out in 2011 by a margin of 13 percent. IBM landed the top ...
FalconStor Pays $5M to Finally End Bribery Kerfuffle
Backup solutions vendor FalconStor had a run in with the law three years ago, when it was discovered that founding CEO ReiJane Huai and two other executives committed bribery to illegitimately obtain contracts for their firm. The client in question was JP Morgan. Over $300,000 in illicit compensation exchanged hands between ReiJane and his colleagues ...
HP Opens New Facility to Accelerate In-Memory Analytics
Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of a new Center of Excellence that develops best practices for HANA and the SAP Business Suite, a catalog of applications built on top of the analytics engine. “To succeed, organizations need to make fast, informed decisions by extracting large amounts of raw data from their systems to turn it into ...
Stats, Acquisitions and Security This Week in Big Data
No one is questioning that the analytics industry is growing like crazy, but the specific figures are up for dispute. To be more specific, IDC recently released a big data market report that predicted this segment will balloon to $24 billion by 2016 – less than half of what Wikibon forecasted in a study released ...
In 2014, We’ll Generate 5 Billion GBs of Data Every 10 Minutes
Wikibon’s latest infographic provides a detailed look into the state of the web today, and a small glimpse into what we may see tomorrow (full infographic below). In 2003 humanity passed the decisive 5 billion gigabyte mark – companies and individuals have produced nearly five petabytes worth of information in just a few decades. Today we ...
VMware and Red Hat Fight Over Vert.x During Brief Legal Kerfuffle
After former VMware engineer Tim Fox joined Red Hat as a principal software engineer, he was handed a letter asking him to transfer the ownership of Vert.x to his former employer. The open-source project Fox led during his stint at VMware is touted as an event-driven app framework for Java Virtual Machine developers. The code ...
CoreSite Allows Nirvanix Clientele to Bypass the ISP
As of this week Nirvanix customers in the West Coast have the option of connecting to their hosted environment directly without the help of a carrier. This private networking capability is offered courtesy of CoreSite, the colocation provider that hosts the local deployment of Nirvanix’s Cloud Storage Network at its One Wilshire facility in Los ...