EMC’s Chuck Hollis on IT Transformation
Chuck Hollis, EMC Vice President and Global Marketing CTO sat in on theCube this week at EMCWorld 2012, where he shared some of the latest coming from EMC with Dave Vellante. Hollis is always…
Microsoft Windows Azure Is So Popular, It’s Turning Customers Away
Capacity planning is a huge headache for the IT professional, no matter the scale: Too much capacity, and you’re wasting money and resources, but too little and you’re risking a shortage. Prospective Microsoft Windows…
Amazon Web Services Launches Export Service for VMs but Getting Application Data Out Remains Elusive
Amazon Web Services has announced a service that allows customers to export previously imported EC2 instances back to on-premise environments. That’s a shift that will send ripples throughout the market and bolsters the argument…
SuccessFactors Transitioning to HANA by Q3
SAP’s HANA in-memory big data appliance has come a long way in the past twelve months, and HR subsidiary SuccessFactors evidently had enough confidence in the platform to migrate its Workforce Analytics and Workforce…
PayPal Changes the Game, but Isn’t the Only Player
When PayPal debuted in cyberspace in 1998 it was a novel move towards a globally connected e-commerce society by allowing business and users to make and send payments directly through the internet. PayPal radically…
EMC Far Ahead in Understanding Public, Private Cloud Services
When Colt Technology Services, a UK-based worldwide cloud service provider and on-premise systems supplier, talked to its EMC rep about what it really needed from its hardware provider, Colt was “fully expecting them [EMC]…
Sony Patent Reveals Weird Gameplay Rewind Advertisement Scheme
By Kyt Dotson
The folks over at ComputerAndVideoGames.com discovered an odd Sony patent filed last July that would enable an advertiser to display an advertisement while a video game is playing (allowing it to continue running in the…
SMS Ads: Still Got It! Mobile Retail Trend Report
By Saroj Kar
Mobile retail is an undeniable byproduct of our love for tablets and smartphones, and it’s up to marketers and business owners to take advantage of this consumer trend. Cellit, the mobile marketing division of…
Microsoft, Google Cozy Up to iOS
Apple’s dominion over the mobile market been undermined as Android, and later Windows Phone 7, started to gain popularity and set out on the growth path they’re following today. All this competition resulted in…
AI on the Rise Weekly: Invades Atmosphere and Ocean, Mimics Children’s Mind and More On Mobility
By Cherr Aira
From a blurry mirage half a century ago, artificial intelligence has transcended several technological feats. Following a series of breakthroughs in mobility, big data, crowd computing and automotive, AI now moves outside the box…