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IBM Leads the Enterprise Social Market
IDC’s latest research has found that IBM leads the global market for enterprise social software for the third consecutive year. IBM has more market share than any other vendor based on its 2011 revenue. The company grew almost two times faster than overall market, and has counts over 35 percent of the Fortune 100 as ...
dotCloud Enhances PaaS Platform, Joins the World of Use-based Pricing
One year old platform as a service (PaaS) provider dotCloud announced the second round of enhancements for the year to its cloud-based service. The company as introduced three new environments: dotCloud Sandbox – a free, fully supported, unlimited use environment for development, testing and experimentation dotCloud Live – a deployment environment designed for live/production applications ...
Intel’s Journey to Mobile Picking Up Steam
Intel just spent $375 million to acquire 1,700 patents for wireless networking technology from Interdigital. The patents should help Intel gain a foothold in the mobile device market that ARM currently dominates. Intel plans to integrate it newly acquired 3G and 4G LTE intellectual property and its Atom microprocessor into smartphones and tablets. Intel began ...
Enterprise Storage Meets Mobility and the Cloud
TappIn and QNAP have announced a new partnership that will integrate TappIn’s content mobility solution with QNAP’s NAS devices. The integration allows users to securely access any content stored on QNAP’s NAS from a web browser or Internet connected mobile device. The TappIn and QNAP partnership is just another signal of the growing importance of ...
The Wireless Spectrum Crunch Continues
The speedy mobile Internet connections that many US consumers take for granted may be about to hit a serious roadblock. Wireless traffic is pushing the boundaries of the current communications infrastructure, and consumption shows no signs of subsiding. Unfortunately, things are only going to get worse. Analysts predict US wireless use will double annually for ...
EqualLogic on Storage, Virtualization and the Future
The Cube’s Stu Miniman and Dave Vellante sat down with Travis Vigil Executive Director Equalogic, Dell at this year’s Dell Storage Forum to chat about EqualLogic’s growth and evolution since joining Dell (full video below). The group also took time to discuss the storage market and Dell’s changing role in that market. The complete video is ...
Looking Back at Dell Storage Forum 2012
Dell held its second annual Dell Storage Forum in Boston last week June 11-13 and attracted over 700 attendees, a larger turnout than last year’s inaugural conference in Orlando. The event featured a long list of announcements, lots of deep-dive sessions and plenty of positioning statements by Dell executives. It was clear that Dell, like ...
Examining Hewlett-Packard’s Software Business
The Cube’s Dave Vellante had an opportunity to speak with Mark Potts, HP Fellow and CTO, HP Software at this year’s HP Discover to discuss the future of Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) software business. The complete video is available after the article. Vellante began by asking Potts what is the converged cloud. Potts explained that HP has ...
VCE Enhances Desktop Virtualization Automation Solution FastPath
VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company created by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware in 2010, announced several enhancements to its virtualization management and automation solution, VCE Vblock FastPath. VCE Vblock FastPath Desktop Virtualization Platform helps administrators automate VDI deployments and centrally manage many other aspects of the desktop virtualization platform. At this week’s ...
A Real Customer Perspective of Dell’s Storage Strategy
The Cube’s Stu Miniman interviewed Dell customer and member of Dell influencer program, Roger Lund a Senior System Administrator for the Array Services Group, at the second annual Dell Storage Forum (part I of interview below, see part II here). The Array Services Group is a parent company for several companies that provide call center and ...