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Is 40M Licenses for Windows 8 a Triumph?
Consumers and organizations purchased over 40 million Windows 8 licenses since the operating system launched in stores on October 26, according to Tami Reller. The Microsoft executive, who serves as the company’s chief marketing officer and CFO, revealed this milestone during her keynote at this week’s Credit Suisse 2012 Annual Technology Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. “The ...
Samsung’s Not-So-Lofty Sales Goals and a More Responsible Labor Outlook [VIDEO]
Samsung is stepping up its game both in the mobile space and internally, with a new sales milestone and plans to improve labor conditions in its Chinese plants. According to the latest figures from the manufacturer the Galaxy Note II phone-tablet hybrid shipped over 5 million units to date. Samsung’s flagship phablet hit 3 million ...
Prediction Analytics Made to Order: More BI for HANA
BI software maker SAP is introducing a new product that will help businesses create custom predictive analytics models. SAP Predictive Analysis can run as a standalone solution or in conjunction with HANA, the company’s increasingly popular database system. The new offering provides users with a relatively easy to use environment for collecting data, manipulating it, ...
Not Enough Nexus 4’s to Go Around. Is Google Ready for Hardware Sales?
As the largest web company in the world with nearly two million servers at its disposal, Google dominates search and mobile. But it seems that commerce is slightly out of the tech giant’s comfort zone, as many Android enthusiasts found out this week. The Nexus 4, arguably one of the most anticipated smartphones to date, ...
More Data Types, Tools in EnterpriseDB Manager 3.0
PostgreSQL firm EnterpriseDB is releasing a new version of Postgres Plus Advanced Server, alongside Postgres Enterprise Manager 3.0. The updated software runs better, supports more data types and make it easier for database administrators to manage their environment. Postgres Plus 9.2 does a few things better than its processors, thanks to more automation and “ninth generation ...
Lessons in Big Data Transformation from HP Discover 2012
Hewlett-Packard is holding its second annual HP Discover event in Frankfurt, Germany through December 4-6. The vendor will likely tackle many of the same subjects it addressed during the US conference in June this year, namely the shift towards big data and the ongoing challenges of IT infrastructure to support the change. Antonio Neri, senior ...
Boundary Brings Big Data to AWS With More Cloud Transparency
Boundary updated its cloud monitoring service this morning with new features that can detect technical difficulties and pending application issues using the power of analytics. The update includes a “proactive alerting” capability that tracks app behavior and sends out a warning as soon as something breaks the pattern. This supplements the second new feature that ...
New Details of Autonomy Accounting Practices Unfold After Investor Sues [VIDEO]
A Hewlett-Packard shareholder filed a lawsuit against the company for an $8.8 billion writedown on Autonomy, the British analytics firm it acquired last year. When the deal was first announced, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison deemed the $11 billion buyout price inflated, a statement that today seems more valid than ever. The unnamed stakeholder behind the ...
The Science of Sentiment is Big Business in the Valley
While many tech startups are attracting less VC attention than they once did, analytics firm Lattice Engines has had few problems gaining adoration from investors. The predictive analytics seller received $20 million in a Series C funding round. New Enterprise Associates (NEA) led the round, and existing investor Sequoia Capital chipped in as well. The San ...
Garantia Boosts AWS with Major NoSQL Upgrade
Garantia Data, is making its Redis offering available to developers who are running their apps on Heroku, AppFog and AppHarbor. Garantia is an up-and-coming NoSQL startup that offers cloud services based on Memcached and Redis, two popular in-memory key value stores. The value prop lies in the propriety backup and performance optimization features that Garantia adds to the core ...