For SAP, It’s Now a Big Data World
In his keynote at SAPPHIRE this morning, SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe made three predictions. Two of them – that within five years we will live in a completely mobile, cloud-based world – were…
Hewlett-Packard Unveiles New Servers, Gets More Cloud Attention
Taking a small break from all the buzz surrounding HP Cloud Services, Hewlett-Packard reaffirmed the plus side of being a large vendor with strong relations. Just 24 hours after Intel’s new server chipsets were…
More from SAPphire 2012: HANA, New Services and Cloud Strategy
It’s Day 2 of SAPphire NOW 2012, and the steady flow of updates streaming out of the event still persists. HANA hasn’t disappointed yet, and is in the center of the three day conference…
More Facebook Talent Buys in Mobile. What’s the End Goal?
Facebook acquires another mobile-centric photo sharing service, which begs the question, “What is Facebook really up to?” What’s Facebook’s plan? Facebook is getting aggressive with their acquisitions in recent weeks. Aside from Lightbox, they…
Twitter UK Boasts 10 Million Active Users, Majority on Mobile Devices
By Kyt Dotson
Twitter has released some stats on their current impact in the UK and they’re quite impressive: approximately 10 million active users with 80% active on mobile phones. The company is traditionally very secretive about…
SAP, Oracle, Windows All Run Fine on VMware at James Hardie
Three years ago the IT shop at James Hardie Building Products had not yet hit the wall, but it could see the wall ahead in terms of space and power requirements to support steady…
IBM Versus the Big Data Skills Gap
Last week, IBM invited me down to the grand opening of the Silicon Valley IBM Innovation Center (IIC), a facility designed to educate Big Blue’s channel partners and help them integrate its product line…
SAN Cheaper than DAS for Most Exchange Installations
SAN is less expensive than DAS for all on premise Microsoft Exchange installations with more than 500 seats, or that are likely to grow above that level, or installations of any size that require…
Lightbox Is the Latest Mobile Photo Acquisition for Facebook as IPO Nears
By Saroj Kar
Facebook has just added another deal to its hasty string of acquisitions, in what may be the last acquisition before the forthcoming IPO. This time it’s a talent hire, bringing in the entire seven-member…
YouSendIt Appoints Brad Garlinghouse as CEO to Bolster Cloud Growth
It can’t be said that YouSendIt hasn’t been remarkably successful in the collaboration space. The popular service has more than 30 million users as of the first quarter of this year, and it counts…