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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …