Mike Wheatley
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LotusFlare raises $6M to bring the mobile web to the masses
Most Americans these days take the Internet for granted. People are always connected, whether it’s at home, in the office, on their smartphones, they rarely miss a status update. But that’s not the case everywhere in the world – in some places, Web access is few and far between. That’s why companies like Google are ...
Hortonworks brings Hadoop to the Land of the Rising Sun
Hortonworks Inc. is plotting a big expansion into Asia through a team up with Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp., that will see them work together to distribute the Big Data processing platform throughout Japan and other Asian markets. Brian Burns, Hortonworks’ Regional Vice President for North Asia, said the new partnership was timely because demand ...
Report: A data-driven culture is critical to Big Data success
Organizations have made big advances in Big Data analytics, but there’s still a long way to go even though many are already starting to see a significant impact on their bottom line. That’s the biggest takeaway from a new survey conducted by Forbes Insights, sponsored by Teradata Corp., in partnership with McKinsey & Company. Teradata ...
Foreign firms “not ready” to relocate as Russian data laws come into effect
A new Russian law that forces U.S. Internet companies to operate data centers in-country has come into effect today, but a significant number of firms are not ready to comply with the new regulations. Although some Western journalists have voiced concerns over Russia apparently “tightening its grip” on the Internet, the authorities there say the ...
VMware, Rackspace build interoperable OpenStack cloud | #VMworld 2015
VMware Inc. and Rackspace Inc. have teamed up together to create a new, interoperable OpenStack cloud platform that was unveiled at #VMworld 2015 yesterday. The new architecture is aimed at helping customers do away with the complexity of spinning up OpenStack clouds, particularly when it comes to hybrid and multi-cloud environments. VMware’s senior product marketing ...
VMware intros “Microvisors” in new container embrace | #VMworld 2015
VMware Inc. showed it’s deadly serious about containers during day one of VMworld yesterday, with the launch of two new technology previews that enterprises can use to build and run containerized applications. Containers are becoming increasingly popular among ‘hip’ enterprises as an alternative to virtualization, a technology VMware dominates, and one which has become almost ...
Gartner sees SaaS driving application software sales
Growth in the enterprise application software market is being driven by cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, and will soon reach $150 billion in annual revenues, according to new research from Gartner Inc. The market watcher revealed its revenues forecast last Thursday, saying that application software sales would grow by 7.5 percent in 2015, before exceeding $200 ...
Lenovo to restructure mobile business around Motorola
It’s no secret that China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. has big ambitions to become a leader in mobile, as its done so in the PC business. But that didn’t stop eyebrows being raised when it made the decision to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., the failing smartphone business owned by search engine giant Google, for a ...
Intel bets big on drones with $60 million Yuneec investment
Intel Corp. has made its biggest investment into drone technology yet, injecting more than $60 million into China’s Yuneec International as it looks for ways to compensate for the declining PC market. The two firms took the rather unusual step of producing a short video to explain the collaboration, saying that they’re going to work ...
Enterprise server market beats the odds to grow 6.1 percent
The enterprise server market has defied all the odds to grow by 6.1 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to the year before, according to International Data Corp. (IDC)’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Tracker for servers, ethernet switches and routers. Things are looking pretty rosy revenue-wise too, with total server sales of $13.48 ...