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4 Ways Your Outsourcing Partner is Screwing You: Infographic
Software development outsourcer Symphony released a well-crafted infographic that outlines the company’s high priority factors in outsourcing projects today – or as the sketch’s title puts it, “4 Ways Your Outsourcing Partner is Screwing with You.” Bulletin number one is outcome-based contracts, which at present account for less than eight percent of all the agreements ...
VMware Expectations High for Growth in Q4
Virtualization titan VMware will be holding its earnings call to report the fiscal results of its fourth quarter, and the general consensus on Wall Street seems to be on the optimistic side. The expectation is that the company will report profit of 43 cents a share, a substantial increase from the 24 cents per share ...
Piston Cloud Launches OpenStack Distro
Piston Cloud has rolled out Piston Enterprise OS, or pentOS, into general availability today. The cloud platform is a refined, commercial version of OpenStack – the open-source cloud OS initiative originally kicked off by Rackspace and NASA. PentOS offers a number of advantages to enterprises with private cloud deployments; first and foremost the fact that it’s ...
Big Data Fund Sees Promise in Real-Time Backup
Code 42 confirmed in a blog post that announced the startup has raised $52.5 million in venture capital from Accel and Split Rock Partners. This investment represents the first for Accel’s $100 million big data fund, a very buzzed-about initiative that further validated the real potential of the unstructured analytics industry. Startup Code 42 offers a software ...
Jaspersoft, Red Hat Team Up for Embedded BI
Open-source analytics firm Jaspersoft teamed-up with Linux distributor Red Hat to integrate JasperReports Server into Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0. The fused product launched into general availability today, and offers companies better insight into their Red Hat-virtualized environments. Jaspersoft’s software skims through historical user activity data and system utilization and identifies trends that customers can ...
Hewlett-Packard’s Dynamic Executive Team Sees More Changes
HP has seen a lot of senior execs come and go recently – most of them going in the past month or so. The latest update however concerns a promotion of the company’s software head, Bill Veghte, to the role of chief strategy officer. Veghte’s former post involved the management of Hewlett-Packard’s $3.2 billion software ...
Cisco’s New Integrated Smart Grid Platform
Networking giant Cisco and energy management solutions maker Itron announced a jointly developed smart grid architecture that fuses together technologies from both companies. The solution is comprised of the Cisco 1000 Series Connected Grid Router and the Cisco Network Management System (NMS). These run alongside Itron’s IPV6-supporting smart meters, powered by the OpenWay Reporting System ...
Social Startup Echo Hires Two Key Execs
Echo hired Ron Bouganim and Kristin Hersant to fill two management positions, as the start-up seeks to strengthen its internal structure. Echo provides real-time solutions to consumer-facing brands. That consists social integration for the most part, in the form of add-ons that are designed to boost user enhancement and traffic. Echo claims that it serves ...
Sprint Changes its Tune on Carrier IQ Support
Sprint confirmed that is its working with its OEMs to remove Carrier IQ from its devices. The first one handset that will get its firmware replaced is the HTC EVO 3D, and based on an official statement The Verge received it’s highly probable that the carrier will expand this effort to additional portions of its ...
From Android to Siri, Steve Wozniak Sees Apple’s Hurdles
Steve Wozniak seems to believe that Android has quite a bit more potential than iOS, the flagship platform – at least by revenue – of the consumer electronics giant he helped co-found with the late Steve Jobs. Wozniak stressed that while he uses an iPhone as his main handset, he thinks Google managed to get ...