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Vendors won’t let up in cloud price wars yet, analysts say
Microsoft raised a few eyebrows earlier this week when it said it was planning to buck the usual trend and actually increase the cost of its cloud services in Australia and Europe, as opposed to slashing prices once again. Microsoft blamed “currency movements” for the move, and as if to emphasize this, has since said ...
Dell and SGI partner to scale out SAP HANA
Silicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI) has forged a new alliance with Dell Inc. that could have big ramifications for the server market. The deal will see Dell resell SGI’s high-end servers to customers adopting SAP HANA in-memory computing applications. Essentially, that means Dell is really going to sell is HANA appliances, which should make it ...
Accenture launches cloud-based insights platform
Accenture Plc yesterday unveiled its new Accenture Insights Platform, a cloud-based analytics tool that aims to simplify the process of delivering real-time actionable insights to businesses and help them gain a competitive advantage. Accenture describes its Insights Platform as a flexible Analytics-as-a-Service solution that’s designed to appeal to CXOs, data scientists and business users alike. ...
Nokia builds drones to inspect telco network towers
Nokia Networks is teaming up with the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, which prefers to go by the much simpler name of Du, to design drones that can help the company test and analyze its networks. Du is one of the biggest telcos in the Middle East, and it recently carried out a proof-of-concept (PoC) test ...
IBM announces 7nm chips breakthrough to keep Moore’s Law alive
IBM Research announced a major breakthrough on Thursday, saying it’s built the world’s first fully-functional 7 nanometer node test chips, in conjunction with partners GlobalFoundries In., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., and the SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. According to IBM, the prototype processors it’s built mark the beginning of a new ...
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 ...