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Enterprise Mobility Emerges as Key Oracle OpenWorld Theme
Oracle’s massive love fest, OpenWorld, has concluded. Mobile was clearly one of the key themes at the conference with everal other vendors announcing new mobile products and features. Oracle led by announcing three new mobile HTML5-based PeopleSoft apps, Mobile Expenses, Mobile Approvals and Company Directory, on Monday. The apps are available to all PeopleSoft 9.1 ...
Services Angle Theme of the Month: Enterprise Mobility
Technology is in a constant state of evolution. Every day some new product or service brings promises of revolutionizing how we live and work. However, only a few, like mobile technology, live up to those claims. From the moment Dr. Martin Cooper placed the first call from a 2.5 pound handheld mobile phone in 1973 ...
The Dirty, Power Hungry World of IT
Articles about social media, mobile and the cloud may fill pages of tech news each day, but many people (and even organizations) never consider how the applications and devices they use impact the environment. Our constantly connected world is powered by enormous amounts of energy and resources. Concern over the impact of growing levels consumption ...
Box Accelerates Synchronization Speeds with Box Accelerator
Box has developed a way to make downloads and uploads a lot faster. The file synchronization and collaboration provider has announced its several changes it is calling Box Accelerator. The changes should significantly improve Box’s performance for US users, which currently account for over half of the file transfer on the service. This could be ...
Splunk CEO Discusses the Case for Splunk and Value of Machine Data [video]
The Cube’s Jeff Kelly and Jeff Frick sat down with Splunk CEO and Chairman Godfrey Sullivan at the company’s annual user conference, .conf 2012. The conference, now in its third year, has moved to Las Vegas to accommodate its increasing size. Over 1,000 attendees have turned out for this year’s event. More than Splunk’s conference ...
Basho Aligns with CloudStack and Everything Else
Basho, which created the Riak distributed NoSQL database, is the latest company to choose sides in the battle of open source cloud platforms – kind of. The company plans to contribute almost all of the Riak CS source code to the CloudStack project. In addition, Basho is working closely with Citrix to make Riak CS a storage ...
Cloud Changing Structure of IT
CompTIA has released its report “CompTIA’s 3rd Annual Trends in Cloud Computing” a 59-page report that examines the current state of cloud computing. The study includes data from 500 businesses that consume technology services and over 400 technology providers. CompTIA’s research found the cloud is changing far more than technology infrastructure and capabilities; it is transforming the very structure ...
Dell’s Delayed Journey Into the Cloud
Dell is striving to shed its PC only roots by adding new enterprise focused products and services. However, the company’s strategy for software and cloud isn’t going as smoothly as it hoped. Dell announced its very optimistic roadmap for entering the cloud market last year in August. This year the PC giant showed its continuing ...
Cloudera, HP Make Simplified Hadoop in the Enterprise
Cloudera, a provides of enterprise software and services for Hadoop, and Hewlett-Packard (HP) have announced a new joint development and licensing agreement. HP will resell Cloudera’s Enterprise platform, and the companies are planning to release a Hadoop appliance. The appliance, planned for release by the end of the year, will include HP AppSystem for Apache ...
Lenovo’s CEO Leads Path to Success and Worker Rewards
Lenovo has been busy. It’s continuing to grow its share of the global PC market. Lenovo is also attempting to establish a stronger presence in mobile; the company has even engaged Microsoft in hopes of gaining permission to customize mobile operating system for its devices. However, it’s not all about the pursuit of market domination ...