It may be a matter of a development mistake or it could be that Google is on the verge of a drop over a very serious precipice: merging G+ and YouTube and forcing users…
Quanta, a $37 billion Taiwanese data center equipment manufacturer which counts Facebook amongst its loyal customers, used this week’s Open Compute Summit in Texas to announce that it’s launching QCT, a subsidiary to market…
Big Blue is diving head first into the top three trends in the enterprise – cloud, mobile and big data. Earlier this week the company announced a string of launches that address two of…
Dark rumors and accusations seem to be telling a compelling narrative about Hulu—the broadly popular venue for free Internet TV (supported by advertisements)—potentially backing away from offering their media without strings to the pubic…
System integrator Wipro just acquired a company called Promax Applications, according to an announcement that went out this week. Promax is an Australian services provider founded in 1989 that started off as The Professional Assignments Group,…
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a $60 million joint initiative to offer free, online, college-level courses known as edX. “edX will support Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on…
Hardware manufacturer Hewlett-Packard is making something called the HP Get Virtual Guarantee Program available to global customers, promising to double VM density in environments that meet all the specified criteria. To be eligible for…
Following the footsteps of rival HP, IBM unveiled the PureSystem line of so-called ‘expert integrated systems’ last month. These are hardware appliances on which users can install software-based ‘patterns of expertise’ to automate certain aspects,…
Astronomer Tobias Mayer, born 1723, was the first data scientist John Rauser, a data scientist at Amazon.com, explained in a talk at Strata. Mayer explained the motion of the moon using spherical motion trigonometry.…
Systems integrators and outsourcers have done very well over the years servicing IBM customers. Building data centers from the ground up, integrating middleware and configuring it all in a secure manner can keep a…