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Day Three Recap: SAP Sapphire 2012
The Cube’s coverage of SAP’s annual Sapphire Now 2012 in Orlando, FL continued on day three of the conference. This year’s event was another opportunity for SAP to promote its transition from a traditional provider of on-premise ERP solutions to a cool vendor of mobile, cloud, social and big data enterprise solutions. Although everyone might ...
How Sybase 365 is Helping SAP Build “Very Real” Mobile Products [Video]
The Cube’s Dave Vellante and big data analyst Jeff Kelly sat down with John Sims, President, Sybase 365 at the SAP Sapphire Now conference held this week in Orlando, FL (video below). Sims was appointed president of Sybase 365 almost a year ago in June 2011. Sybase 365 provides mobile commerce services and controls a ...
Qualtrics Grows their Numbers by Analyzing the Numbers
Qualtrics, which offers online data collection and analysis software and services, has announced it is receiving an impressive $70 million in funding from top venture capital firms Accel Partners and Sequoia. Although the company has existed since 1997 and has been profitable since 2002, this is the first round of venture capital Qualtrics has ever ...
SAPphire Reveals SAP’s Continued Effort to Expand Reach Beyond ERP
SAP’s Sapphire conference has kicked off in Orlando. The company, which has been experiencing some aging pains, is using the gathering as an opportunity to reposition the company as “a platform destination for partnering and collaborating,” according co-CEO Bill McDermott in his closing keynote at the end of day one. Although the keynote, which included ...
Virtualization Lowers the Cost of Computer Access in Schools
Technology isn’t just providing a distraction for students; it’s also lowering the cost of educating them. We reported earlier in the month about the $60 million dollar joint effort, edX, by MIT and Harvard to offer free, online, college courses. In this case, universities are using technology to expand global access to education. However, technology ...
Interop 2012 Recap: New Products from HP, Cisco and Huawei
The Interop Business Technology conference, held annually in Tokyo, New York, Mumbai and India, is underway. This is the 26th year for conference, being held May 6-10, in Las Vegas. This year’s conference features keynotes from the CTOs of Cisco, VMware, Zynga and Rackspace and offers dozens of sessions organized in eight tracks: cloud computing ...
More Leadership Changes at Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has filled the empty spot in its executive team created when the company’s top lawyer, Michael Holston, left in December. Schultz is taking the reins from David Healy, who took the role on an interim basis. John Schultz, who joined in 2008, is being promoted to executive vice president and general counsel. Schultz ...
Apple’s iPad and iPhone Sales Surprise the Market
Traders braced themselves to hear disappointing earnings news from Apple after the market closed on Tuesday. Google, IBM, Dell and Intel all failed to meet expectations in their last earnings reports, which likely contributed to the collective doubt that Apple would not be able to reach the lofty market goals for its performance. The worries ...
Dell Revamps Precision Workstations for the Always-On Data Center
It seems Dell has been listening to the market and it customers. The computer maker released four new Precision workstations that have a strong focus on being highly dependable and easy to manage. Dell designed the new workstations, Dell T1650, T7600, T5600, T3600, using market research and feedback from thousands of customers on what was ...
Cloud Computing Fueling New Healthcare Possibilities
Cloud computing has evolved from cutting edge technology only adopted by the most technically savvy organizations to being a component of even the most conservative portfolios. The cloud has made it possible for even the smallest organizations to have virtually limitless access to sophisticated, highly robust technology solutions. However, in spite of its popularity, many ...