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Apple’s Q3 Earnings: Will There Be Surprises?
The tech industry is still busily releasing earning statements this month. IBM and Google have already released impressive numbers. Microsoft invoked gasps by reporting its first loss since it went public almost three decades ago. Apple is up next. The company is scheduled to reveal the results from its third fiscal quarter tomorrow. Industry watchers ...
YouTube Gets a Business Model Six Years After Joining Google
Google released stronger than expected second quarter earnings on Thursday. The company’s earnings rose 11 percent and revenue increased 21 percent. The company continues to dominate the online ad space, but like many other technology firms, the search giant is attempting to expand its portfolio of products and services. The company has completed its purchase ...
The Best of Pat Gelsinger: VMware’s New CEO Speaks on Just About Everything
Paul Maritz is no longer the CEO of virtualization giant VMware, and it has industry watchers asking lots of questions. Did Maritz step down voluntarily? Did EMC, which owns an 80 percent stake in VMware, drive the change? EMC officially confirmed the management changes, but didn’t explain the rationale behind the moves. Maritz is leaving ...
Disaster Recovery in the Age of Virtualization
Over the last several years, the adoption of virtualization has expanded dramatically because of its long list of potential benefits from lowering infrastructure cost to increasing agility. In March 2011, analysts at Aberdeen found that more than 50 percent of all applications are now virtualized. As the use of virtualization has increased, it has created ...
Big Data and Social Startup 33Across Secures More Funding
33Across, a startup at the intersection of social and big data launched in 2008, has raised an additional $13.1 million in venture capital its third round of funding. The latest cash infusion brings 33Across’ total funding to slightly over $26 million. The company, which uses social data from 1.25 billion users across the globe to ...
Amazon Introduces New Solid State Drive Based Cloud Service
Amazon is the undisputed leader of the public cloud market. Its scale and pricing, make it an attractive option for organizations of all sizes. In addition, Amazon continues to regularly enhance its portfolio of cloud offerings with new features and services. It seems the company’s recent, very public outages, have not slowed its release cycle. ...
Pentaho Appoints Red Hat Executive Board
Open source analytics platform, Pentaho, announced that Brian Stevens CTO and vice president, worldwide engineering, Red Hat, has been elected to their board of directors. Stevens currently leads global engineering, and has been a member of Red Hat’s senior management team for over a decade. Stevens’ experience with cloud computing and software is sure to ...
OpenStack Is Two, but Cloud Standards Still at Ground Zero
Now that the cloud has been around long enough to transition from cutting edge to proven technology, standards have become a topic of discussion. Businesses have no guarantee that applications and content hosted in one cloud service will be easy to integrate or migrate to another cloud service. Standards may not be sexy, but they ...
Moving Enterprise IT to the Post-PC Era
Mobile technology has become almost ubiquitous. Tasks that previously required sitting at a desk to use a traditional PC are now routinely completed using a device that can fit in the palm of someone’s hand. Many are referring to this evolution of computing as the post-PC era. Companies are struggling to keep pace with what ...
EMC Releases First Major Update to NetWorker in Almost a Decade
EMC has often been criticized for leveraging an outdated code in its storage arrays. The company clearly seems to be a proponent of the “if it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it” mantra, but the storage leader has finally decided it’s finally time to update its backup and recovery software, NetWorker. EMC has made significant ...