With Yahoo’s formation of Hortonworks and Cloudera’s latest initiatives, Apache Hadoop has been widely used by enterprises for big data management these days. The Ventana Research survey has found many interesting trends and statics, looking at the overall adoption of Hadoop by various organizations. Their latest survey indicates that about 54% of organizations are using ...

This week has been characterized with various executive appointments and re-shuffling. Leading chipmaker Intel is the latest to make significant executive changes as it announced that longtime executive Andy Bryant will be its new chairman, effective May 2012. In preparation for the transition, Intel’s board is temporarily expanded from 10 to 11 and elected Andy ...

Electronic Arts announced yesterday its fiscal first quarter earnings ending on June 30, exceeding early earnings estimates. The California-based game maker reported a profit of $221 million, or 66 cents per share, on revenues of $999. This is significantly higher compared to last year, when the company earned a profit of $96 million on revenues ...

As we move into the post-PC era, PC manufacturing companies like Dell have been slowly shifting its focus into the enterprise solutions space. A Relative newcomer in offering storage solutions, Dell has found a formidable ally in storage virtualization provider, EqualLogic. In a conversation with Dan Kusnetzky of ZDnet and Executive Director of Dell’s EqualLogic ...

Netflix Inc., one of the leading internet subscription services for movies and TV shows, announced its second quarter earnings. The company reported a 57% increase in quarterly profit, but shares fell by 10% following the release of its results. The California-based company reported an income of $682 million, which is up by $44.5 million from ...

Last week, EMC, VMware and Accenture announced the results of research performed by IDC France regarding cloud maturity amongst French companies. The results reveal that large companies in France believe that cloud services could help their business needs and they are now slowly shaping their IT systems for virtualization. The respondents of the study are ...

Top provider of user virtualization solutions, AppSense, announced today its financial records for the fiscal year of 2011 which ended on June 30. AppSense indicated that it has achieved an overall growth of 54% increase from the previous year on its booked orders globally. Due to the company’s active innovation in the field of user ...

As social management becoming an integral role in an organization’s success, consulting and business process outsourcing (BPO) company, Capgemini, expands into the realm of social media monitoring. In a partnership with Attensity, provider of text analysis tool, Capgemini offers a managed social media monitoring service.  This service intends to provide smart text analysis and language ...

SAP, one of the leading providers of enterprise software applications, announced today that SAP value-added-resellers (VARS) are now authorized to sell Sybase enterprise mobility apps which could provide new mobile and revenue opportunities to more than 3,000 potential SAP partners. Sybase mobility apps and solutions, which include application development, device management and security, can now ...

After Apple’s release of the much anticipated Mac OS X Lion yesterday, eager users are now flocking to the Mac App Store to download the software, which is currently available by download only. However, not all users have been fortunate in their attempts. Instead of downloading the software, they were greeted with, “This action cannot ...