Microsoft CEO: Top 5 candidates shortlisted
Just like in Beauty pageants, from 40 or so candidates, Microsoft is said to have narrowed down its final list to just five candidates. If reports are to be believed, the software giant’s special…
Four ways Microsoft, Oracle + Salesforce hurt SMBs
By Guest Author
Say you own a small or medium-sized business and you want to improve the efficiency of your sales and marketing efforts to prospective and current customers. Chances are you have been inundated with attractive…
Canada’s government said ‘no way’ to Lenovo’s BlackBerry takeover
BlackBerry’s troubled businesses might be on life support these days, but that hasn’t stopped a flurry of reports covering its ongoing troubles this week. First up was the news that Fairfax Financial Holdings, the…
Moving away from Itanium, HP nudges customers toward x86 HA
Oracle isn’t alone in wanting to abandon Intel’s ill-received Itanium platform. A year after derailing the database maker’s plan to halt software development for the chip, Hewlett Packard is porting its Nonstop line of…
Report claims Bitcoin is broken, at risk from ‘selfish miners’
Bitcoin isn’t nearly as safe as most users believe, being vulnerable to an attack that could allow a small group of “selfish Bitcoin miners” to effectively wrest control of the virtual currency – all…
The new commodity is attention : The new currency is time | #IBMIoD
Renee Ducre, Director of Marketing Social Business with IBM, agreed to talk with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante during the exclusive coverage from IBM Information on Demand 2013 in Las Vegas, shedding…
De-risk data driven decisions : Start with critical thinking | #IBMIoD
Michael Kowelenko, an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, discussed decision making in the age of Big Data with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the IBM Information on Demand 2013 event in Las…
Skip the manuals : Social biz data should be easy | #IBMIoD
Jeff Schick, Vice President of Social Software at IBM, explored the opportunities that organizations now have to expand their business through social software and social media strategies, with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John…
Ask DevOps: It is time again to tangle with Daylight Savings Time, a guide for developers
By Kyt Dotson
Daylight Savings Time is becoming more and more of a controversial subject as civilization continues to integrate with roads, cars, and internet. The old ways of saving extra light by pushing the clocks around…
The blind spot of clients: think business processes, not data | #IBMIoD
Live from #theCUBE at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, John Furrier and Dave Vellante brought their regular viewers exclusive coverage from IBM Information on Demand 2013. Our co-hosts got hold of Fred Balboni, Global…