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Fusion-io Reveals Flashy New Architecture
One of the main things that can be credited with Fusion-io’s success in the flash market is the company’s use of both innovative hardware and accompanying software that optimizes the offering. A demonstration at the recent “DEMO Enterprise: An Evening of Innovation” gathering is the latest proof of the huge plus side of this approach. ...
Politics Will Play a Huge Role in Mobile Sector This Year
Strand Consult released its latest prediction post for the telecommunications industry, looking into eight different trends that the firm believes will become the most prominent in this market. Strand had been releasing these reports for over a decade now. Telco & Political sectors The first two highlights of the forecast focus on the frictions between the ...
Millennial Media Finally Goes Public, Confirms Rumors
Millennial Media is growing at a very rapid pace, going as far as to outpace Apple in becoming the second largest mobile ad network operator out there, as of last month. It’s been the largest independent ad network for quite some time now, and last night the company has confirmed that they’re changing this indie status. ...
Film is out of Fashion, Kodak Jumps Ship
Video recording giant Kodak, dubbed the Apple of its time, is strongly considering to file for bankruptcy in light of a steady decline in sales throughout its recent history. The almost century and a half old enterprise may be able to avoid that fate however if it succeeds in selling off some of its patents. ...
Broadcom Has Big Ideas for Connected Devices at CES
Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor discussed his company’s position in the mobile space during an interview with Fox Business, on the background of the Broadcom powered iPhone 4S. He stressed that Broadcom has set its eye on making room for itself in the mobile chip market using an integrated, data-driven strategy that combines several different elements in ...
SAP’s Big Data Strategy Simplifies Analytics with HANA
In an interview to Forbes, Sanjay Poonen, president and corporate officer of SAP Global Solutions, laid out his company’s vision for big data analytics. That vision is based mostly on HANA, the business software maker’s in-memory data muncher. SAP’s strategy involved the convergence of three well-defined big data concepts: the economics that can be achieved ...
Nimble Raises $1M for Fresh CRM Solution
Nimble announced it has received $1 million in seed funding from Google Ventures and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, alongside other venture capitalists including Jason Calacanis, Don Dodge and Dharmesh Shah. Today Nimble has a user base of over 25,000 workers employed by about 2,700 different companies, which can be considered as quite an achievement ...
Dell Leaps into Enterprise Storage, A Vision of Love
Back at Dell World 2011, a Forbes correspondent wrote about what he thought might be Michael Dell’s grand plan for his company. He made a comparison between the electronics giant’s CEO and Steve Jobs to emphasis his point, using the latter as an example of a leader who’d managed to craft a successful long-term plan ...
Citrix’s “Non Obvious” Mobile Predictions: iOS Kills Flash
Citrix’s Chris Fleck, VP of development for the virtualization solutions maker, posted a list of his own predictions for 2012 concerning the mobile space in particular. He noted some interesting highlights which might as well be very plausible extensions of the existing trends in this industry. One of the main things Fleck is expecting is ...
Cisco Pulls the Plug on Overpriced umi Line
The sales of Cisco’s umi videoconferencing product evidently missed expectations, now that the company announced it will no longer be shipping new units. It will, however, continue to offer tech support to customers who’ve already purchased the set-top box. The solution is undeniably gimmicky, but the main issue that drove Cisco to abandon umi is ...