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Wikibon Finds Big Data and Cloud Driving IT Transformation
Wikibon has released the results of its first IT Transformation survey conducted in May and June of this year with the assistance of SiliconAngle’s ServicesAngle. The study was comprised of 261 business technology professionals from a random sample of Wikibon community members in a broad spectrum of professional roles, organizational sizes and geographic locations. The ...
Post-PC Era Is Here, Don’t Think So
Post-PC is a phrase on the tip of every IT analyst’s tongue and on the keys of every tech writer’s keyboard. However, there is quite a bit of debate on whether it’s a real trend or just the next phrase in always continuing technology hype cycle. If it is hype, lots of technology companies like ...
VMWare Adds Oracle Support to vFabric Data Director
VMWare has announced a new release of its vFabric Data Director its database-aware visualization and self-service lifecycle management solution. The company originally released the product at VMworld 2011 last August to improve the efficiency of administering databases. The solutions makes it possible automate many common database administration tasks like provisioning, backup and cloning. VMware has ...
Studies Confirm Big Data as Key Business Priority, Growth Driver
Oracle has released the results from its “Big Data, Bigger Opportunities: Plans and Preparedness for the Data Deluge” survey, the first in a series that will look at how utility companies are using smart meter data. The study included 151 senior executives at utility providers in North America with smart meter programs in place to ...
EMC Partners with Purdue University to Solve Big Data Problems
EMC has formed a new partnership with Purdue University that will provide students and staff an impressive 100 gigabytes of free storage. The move is part of a larger five-year initiative between EMC and Purdue to address challenges and opportunities related to big data. Purdue gets IT help from a major vendor, students and staff ...
Lenovo Seeking Permission to Modify Microsoft’s Mobile Operating Systems
We recently discussed Lenovo’s quiet move to the top of the PC market. It seems the company also has its sights on the mobile space. Reports have surfaced that Lenovo is requesting approval to modify Microsoft’s mobile operating systems Windows 8 and Windows RT. Microsoft has granted Nokia permission to alter Windows 8, but otherwise ...
The Future of Technology Careers Requires Cloud, Mobility Skills
The global economy is still having a bit of a tough time recovering and the recent issues in the euro zone aren’t helping. Within the US, there has been some recovery, but job growth has been feeble and unemployment increased slightly in May. This and big layoffs this year by companies like Yahoo and HP ...
Red Hat Announces Innovation Award Winners
Red Hat might have just revealed one of the secrets to earning a billion dollars in revenue per year with open source – lots of work and releases. Earlier this month, the open source giant announced its new infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solution, CloudForms, for companies that use hybrid clouds. Last week Red Hat was all about ...
HP, Turnkey Automate Enterprise Software Testing
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has partnered with TurnKey for years. Now the companies have partnered to deliver an automated testing framework for enterprise applications. The new solution extends HP’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and HP Quality Center and includes three components: Business Process Test Accelerator – a business process test library for HP Quality Management and popular ...
Does Netflix Care About their Developer Community?
It seems that Netflix is determined to create mobs of angry people. Last year the company announced it was going to spinoff its disc rental service to a new business called Qwikster. The company aborted the plan less than a month after the announcement when the stock price tanked and customers loudly protested. During the ...