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Google crushes expectations amid signs of fiscal discipline
With Facebook nipping at his heels in video, European regulators pressing for antitrust measures and its search engine market share stagnant, Google has been under a lot of pressure this year. But you wouldn’t know it from the quarterly earnings report released this afternoon. Google reported second-quarter earnings of $6.99 per share on $17.73 billion ...
Business intelligence helps developer get prospects out of the office, onto the golf course
When Jamie Adams (right) joined real estate luxury development company The Cliffs two years ago following a 12-year career at Michelin NA, she quickly discovered that management reporting was anything but luxurious. The Cliffs was in the process of merging its club operations and real estate business units into a master collection of seven luxury ...
Jitterbit rolls out unified API deployment/management platform
Enterprise integration vendor Jitterbit, Inc. today announced a cloud platform for companies to use in quickly designing and managing real-time application program interfaces (APIs), a middleware technology that is fast gaining favor as a quick and relatively secure way for enterprises to integrate applications flexibly. Harmony Live “is a way to connect anything with an ...
MariaDB adds Docker, Chef support in summer release
MariaDB Corp. is focusing on developers in the summer release of its namesake database and related MaxScale proxy server. Founded by the developers of MySQL in the wake of Oracle’s acquisition of that software, MariaDB has seen rapid growth. It has taken over MySQL’s role as the “M” in the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MariaDB/PHP/Python/Perl) open source stacks from ...
SIOS aims to bring order to virtual machine complexity
Breaking out of its high-availability computing niche, SIOS Technology Corp. is today announcing a virtualization monitoring and optimization platform tuned to VMware, Inc. environments. The company, which was founded in 1999 as a maker of clustering software, says its SIOS iQ technology can detect the full realm of devices, processes and relationships in a virtualized ...
IBM outsourcing deal validate’s Wikibon “mega-data center” vision
IBM’s massive nine-figure contract to help Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. upgrade its infrastructure and internal employee support operations over a five-year period is symbolic of a bigger transformation outlined by Wikibon cofounder David Floyer (below) in a concept he calls the “mega-data center.” Floyer first articulated this vision a year ago and recently updated it ...
Former HP exec Veghte signs on as head SurveyMonkey
Having spearheaded much of the strategy behind cleaving Hewlett-Packard Co. in two, Bill Veght will face a very different challenge in his new role: Pulling together a company that’s coping with grief. SurveyMonkey, Inc., a fast-growing provider of online research tools, today announced that Veghte would become its new CEO, filling the void left when former CEO David Goldberg ...
How Sprint is making customer service social
Ever since @ComcastCares kicked off the social media customer service revolution seven years ago, companies have been evolving and refining their approach to handling customer service issues in a proliferating number of channels in ever-tighter timeframes. Telecommunications service provider Sprint Corp. is adopting a new approach to customer service that empowers agents to move incoming ...
Ask a Wikibon Analyst – How big a deal is Apache Spark really?
In the world of Big Data, 2015 is rapidly shaping up as the year of Spark. The Apache analytics engine has captured the industry’s imagination and prompted some people to predict that Spark will be a bigger deal than Hadoop, which was yesterday’s shiny bauble. IBM closed out the first half of the year with ...
HP loses another top exec as it prepares to detail breakup plans
A little over a year ago, Hewlett-Packard Co. Enterprise Group EVP Bill Veghte kicked off the company’s Discover conference by proclaiming “HP is back.” However, he won’t be around to enjoy a victory lap. HP announced this morning that Veghte is leaving the company for an unspecified “new opportunity.” His departure comes at a somewhat awkward ...