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Companies Spending More on IT Services, But 2013 Still A Challenge
The University of Pennsylvania says that the enterprise is spending more on outsourced services, and has the numbers to back it up. A recent article on the Warton business school journal cites a study from Offshore Insights that claims 43 percent of clients plan to increase their spending by as much as five percent in ...
Alfresco Ups Security, Extends File-Sharing Cloud to AWS
The latest edition of Alfresco’s flagship product offers enterprises document management capabilities on Amazon Web Services. The open-source platform supports public and private deployments, as well as hybrid environments that offer improved support for mobile workers. “As the only vendor on the market to offer the same simple and scalable open platform for the enterprise ...
Infochimps Debuts Enterprise Play with Zero Migration PaaS for Data Analytics
Infochimps is touting a new offering that allows enterprises to move to the cloud without investing too much in data migration. The service is targeting large organizations that face the challenge of moving massive amounts of information to and from their legacy infrastructure. Enterprise Cloud is powered by a network of data center partners and ...
What Dell’s Doing Right with Software-Defined Networking
Dell’s Armughan Ahmad hopped into theCube last week to discuss the latest on his company’s networking strategy with Wikibon’s top analysts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman (full video below). Vellante kicks off the interview with a couple of observations about Dell, and how it is attempting to leverage its scale – a great deal of ...
IT Market Will Struggle in 2013, But Dell’s Ahead of the Curve, Says IDC Chief Researcher
The IT industry is consolidating and Dell is taking all the right steps to adapt its business, according to IDC executive vice president and chief researcher Crawford Del Prete. The analyst stopped by theCube during last week’s second annual Dell World conference to cover all the latest trends and more (full video below). Del Prete ...
Blekko Donates Spam Free Search Data for Love of the Open Web
Up-and-coming search provider Blekko earned itself a few internet karma points this week by making a donation to Common Crawl, a not-for-profit organization that makes search ranking data freely available to anyone with the resources to tap into it. The startup gave away processed (spam free) information about 140 million websites and 22 billion webpages ...
Virtualization a Game Changer in Legacy-Burdened Data Centers, Says Stephen Foskett
Tech Field Day organizer Stephen Foskett stopped by theCube during this week’s Dell World convention to chat about data centers and corporate mobile strategies with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. See part one and part two for the full session (full videos below). Foskett starts off by addressing converged infrastructure. He says that the “Microsoft ...
Virtualization is a Big Opportunity for BPM in 2013 [Predictions]
Miguel Valdés Faura seems to have a knack for predicting big trends in the industry, especially as they pertain to his particular area of expertise. He is the co-founder and CEO of BonitaSoft, a provider of business process management software that has maintained its competitive edge correctly responding to the big shifts that directly influence ...
Evidence Builds for Microsoft Office on the iPad in 2013
Office is coming to iOS, according to multiple reports from the past two months. The latest ones crossed the wire this week, when bloggers came across several mentions of the suspectedly upcoming launch in support documents published by Microsoft’s Romanian subsidiary. The text included keywords such as “Office Mobile for iPhone” and list “Excel for ...
Whipping Flash Into Shape: Whiptail Bags $31M for Energy-Efficient Flash Storage
Whiptail‘s just brought in a $31 million Series C funding round, the result of some strategic investments from SSD maker SanDisk and a “Silicon Valley titan” whose name was not disclosed; capital from Ignition Partners, RRE Ventures and Spring Mountain Capital; and debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. Whiptail makes flash-powered storage arrays, branded Invicta and Accela, which ...