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Gartner expects PC sales to slump again, blames Windows 10
The struggling PC industry won’t get much help from Windows 10 for at least another year, the research outfit Garnter Inc. said in a report yesterday. According to Gartner’s mystics, global PC shipments are set for a further 4.5 percent decline this year compared to last, to just 300 million units. That’s also a 1.3 ...
IDC: Cloud infrastructure to account for 1/3 of all IT spend in 2015
On-premise IT infrastructure still accounts for the bulk of enterprise IT spend, but cloud infrastructure is rapidly catching up, and now represents a third of all IT spending, according to a new report from International Data Corp. The research outfit’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Infrastructure Tracker found that total cloud IT infrastructure spend, which includes servers, ...
EMC offloads Syncplicity to “focus on its core storage business”
EMC Corp. has announced the sale of Syncplicity LLC, it’s file-sharing and collaboration business, to the investment firm Skyview Capital for an undisclosed fee. The sale comes barely three years after EMC acquired Syncplicity in 2012. At the time, it was seen as the company’s response to the burgeoning popularity of mobile computing and the ...
Big Data to accelerate Tour de France coverage
South African IT firm Dimension Data Plc., a subsidiary of NTT Group, has achieved something of a coup by being selected as the Official Technology Partner of the Tour de France. The company is being tasked with powering the real-time data behind the world’s biggest cycling event, providing TV broadcasters and spectators with up to ...
Microsoft to INCREASE Azure prices, blames currency movements
Microsoft is planning to buck the trend of incessant price cut after price cut in the public cloud with a sudden increase in the costs of using its Azure cloud. The mildly surprising announcement came by way of The Register, which was told by Microsoft that it “… continues to evaluate the market conditions in ...
China plans a Big Data revolution with Internet Plus initiative
China has revealed more details about its “Internet Plus” initiative that aims to help foster the growth of e-commerce and Web companies in the country as part of a wider effort aimed at stimulating the economy. That plan, which was launched in March by China’s Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang, officially aims to ...
Google’s next Glass might be an ‘Enterprise Edition’
For all the fanfare, Google Glass wasn’t exactly a resounding success. Indeed, Google announced it was killing off the contraption back in January of this year, even though some businesses users and healthcare providers actually found it quite useful. But Google’s announcement was somewhat premature, for it’s now widely believed the company is planning to ...
Uber crumbles under French protests, suspends services
Uber Technologies Inc. has temporarily suspended its UberPop service in France, following mass protests from taxi drivers there who insist the service is against the law. After a week of sometimes violent protests by regular taxi drivers, Uber announced the suspension of its UberPop service last Friday, adding that it had done so to protect ...
SnapShot bids to bring hospitality into the Big Data era
SnapShot GmbH, a Berlin-based Big Data startup focused on the hospitality industry, received a big boost this week with €25 million in series B funding from Beijing Shiji Information Technology Co., (Shiji Networks) to help scale out its suite of data analytics tools aimed at hoteliers. There aren’t many bigger buzzwords in tech than “Big ...
HP Enterprise split edges closer with SEC filing
Hewlett-Packard Company has filed Form 10 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of the process of registering HP Enterprise Inc. as a seperate, independent firm. It’s an important step as the company prepares to split itself into two entities. The 311 page document gives us a good look at the finances ...