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IBM took another battering from investors even as it unexpectedly beat analysts’ estimates in its fourth quarter earnings. Although IBM execs were predictably upbeat over the performance, investors seemed to disagree as Big Blue’s shares slumped by around 3.5 percent in after-hours …
SnapShot snaps up ex-Googler to lead a revolution in hotel data analytics
Ex-Googler Dr. Stefan Tweraser is hoping to inject some Silicon Valley-style efficiency into his new employer SnapShot GmbH, as the Austrian startup readies itself to revolutionize the hospitality industry with its new Big Data analytics services. Tweraser’s appointment as SnapShot’s new CEO …
Worldwide IT spend fell by six percent in 2015
Enterprises tightened up the purse strings over the last year, leading to an almost six percent decrease in the amount of IT spending worldwide, said Gartner Inc. in a new report. That amounts to the largest year-over-year decrease in IT spending that …
Gartner calls out cloud vendors for cooking the books
Gartner Inc. has called out supposed “cloud vendors” for doing what everyone has known for years – creatively cooking the books to inflate their cloud-associated revenues. Gartner made its accusations in a paper called Vendor Cloud Revenue Claims — Should Enterprises Care? where …
Microsoft decrees that new PCs will ONLY be able to run Windows 10
Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to push the world onto Windows 10 by revising its support policy in a way that means newly purchased PCs will no longer support older editions of its operating system. The new rules will mean that …
A third of all IT infrastructure spending now goes to the cloud
The analysts from International Data Corp. (IDC) have just published their latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, and it shows that around a third of all IT infrastructure spending is now being thrown at the cloud. According to IDC, enterprises spent …
Amazon could be about to start shipping containers (really)
Evidence has emerged that Amazon.com Inc., could be about to get into the freight business and start shipping container loads of goodies across the seven seas. The ‘evidence’ comes via The Register, which spotted this blog post from Ryan Peterson, CEO of …
MapR offers up Big Data test drives on the AWS Cloud
Big Data vendor MapR Technologies Inc. has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer its customers the chance to test drive versions of Dataguise DgSecure, HPE Vertica and Apache Drill & TIBCO Spotfire via AWS on its Apache Hadoop and …
Intel beats Wall Street estimates in Q4 earnings results
Intel had rare cause for celebration yesterday afternoon when it posted stronger-than-expected fourth quarter profits, showing it’s still a force to be reckoned with even though it’s failed to gain a foothold in the mobile device market. The chipmaker pulled in $3.6 …
Yahoo has just made a massive 13.5TB machine learning dataset available
Yahoo has just handed over what it claims is the world’s largest-ever machine learning dataset to the academic research community through its ongoing program, Yahoo Labs Webscope. The company said it’s hopeful that the release will encourage more people – not just …