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IBM To Invest $1 Billion In Flash Technology Research, Reflecting Obsolescence Of Hard Disk Drives
IBM plans to invest $1 billion in research to design, create and integrate Flash into its servers, storage systems and middleware, a reflection of the changing requirements needed for companies to manage massive amounts of data. As part of the news, IBM also announced a new line of Flash appliances. These storage appliances are based on technology acquired from Texas Memory Systems. IBM… Read More
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Co-Founders Of Mo De, A Mobile Micro Credit Company From Kenya, Wins The IBM SmartCamp
I am not one to write about award recipients but I find it pretty awesome that the founders of Mo De, a mobile micro finance company from Kenya, won the IBM SmartCamp entrepreneur of the year award this week in New York. Julian Kyula and Josphat K. Kinyua started Mo De to fill a need that impacts the millions of African customers who buy mobile service by the minute. Often, people will run out… Read More
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The “Windows First” Mobile Strategy For Microsoft Office 2013 Is Not Working
Microsoft is pinching CIOs by not providing an easy way to run the just released Microsoft Office 2013 on anything except Windows RT. With little cross-platform integration, Microsoft is creating an opening for vendors that have a more clear path for accessing documents on a mobile device. Read More
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FMYI Converts To Twitter Bootstrap To Simplify Social Network Development
Last week I stopped by the offices of FMYI, a small Portland-based company that is one of the first enterprise social networks to use Twitter Bootstrap. Read More
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IBM Makes A Play For The CMO And HR Pros
IBM Connect started tonight here in Orlando. And the story is all about the chief marketing officer and that high-ranking executive in human resources. For marketing it means reaching customers and prospects. For HR — it’s about tools for the pros and the ones who are still learning the ways of social business. Read More
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IBM Beats; Revenue Down 1% To $29.3B; Net Income Up 6% To $6.1B
IBM just released its Q4 2012 financials. The company’s GAAP net income came in at $5.8 billion, up 6% from last year. Non-GAAP net income was $6.1 billion. Overall, the company reported revenue of $29.3 billion, down 1%. Earnings per share were $5.39 compared to $4.71 per share in the fourth quarter of 2011, an increase of 14 percent. Read More
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The 2013 Enterprise Guide For Dummies
The enterprise — I get a sideways glance when I tell people it’s what I cover. People want to know why I find it so compelling. They ask because truly they have no goddamn clue what the hell the enterprise is in the first place. Read More
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Amazon Web Services Adds New Storage For Data Intensive Applications
Amazon Web Services has added a new storage instance for data intensive applications. The new storage instances are designed for applications that require high storage depth and I/O performance. Read More
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Michael Dell: 64,000 Servers From Number One Position Worldwide And An Official Commitment To OpenStack
Michael Dell said onstage at his Dell World keynote today that Dell is No. 1 in market share for servers in North America and Asia and 64,000 servers from the number one spot worldwide. Dell did not cite a source for the number one spot claim. There is no public statement about the total. I was told to ask IDC Analyst Matt Eastwood about the numbers. So I did. Eastwood replied to me on… Read More
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ScaleIO Raises $12 Million For Software-Based Storage To Compete Directly With EMC, IBM And Hitachi Data Systems
ScaleIO has raised $12 million in a Series A round from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), Greylock Partners, and private investors for its software defined storage technology. ScaleIO is one of a new breed of storage providers that use software to scale across thousands of servers. Read More
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IBM: Cyber Monday Sales Up 28.4 Percent; iPhone Driving Most Traffic To Retail Sites
After a record-breaking Black Friday, retailers may be in for a big Cyber Monday as well. Early results for Cyber Monday, from IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark, show a 25.6 percent jump in online sales from this same time period over Cyber Monday 2011. Read More
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IBM: Thanksgiving Sales Data Shows Mobile Commerce Jumping, iPhone/iPad Driving over 20% Of Traffic, Social Nets Only 0.2%
ComScore yesterday predicted that e-commerce sales would jump by 14% this holiday season compared to last year, to $42 billion, and some numbers just out from IBM’s Benchmark service — an ongoing measurement that covers some 500 of the largest online retailers in the U.S. — indicate that consumers are getting a head start today. Online sales, it says, are already up by… Read More
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Rainmaker Group Raises $33.8M For Data Services That Optimizes Profits By Forecasting Supply And Demand
The Rainmaker Group, a company founded in 1998, has accepted its first investment — $33.8 million from Norwest Venture Partners that the Atlanta-based company will use to extend its profit and price optimization technology to different markets. Read More
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Big Switch Hires Former Battery Ventures Partner As Networking Space Heats Up And Acquisition Speculations Swirl
Big Switch, one of the hottest startups in the fast-growing software defined networking (SDN) market, has named Jason Matlof as its new vice president of marketing after he left Battery Ventures as a partner in September. The move is noteworthy, because it illustrates how fast the new networking space is emerging, as data becomes ever more difficult to manage on traditional physical… Read More
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$45 Billion Later, Larry Ellison Says No Major Acquisitions For Next Few Years
Larry Ellison said today that Oracle does not plan to do any acquisitions in the next few years but would not rule one out down the road. He made the remarks in a CNBC interview at OracleOpenWorld in San Francisco. Ellison was also asked about a successor to the company he has run for the past three decades. He only said there are several who could take his place. Read More
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IBM Buys Social HR And Talent Management Software Company Kenexa For $1.3B In Cash
IBM has scooped up talent management and HR software maker Kenexa. The price? A hefty $1.3 billion, or $46.00 per share in cash. The NASDAQ-listed Kenexa offers an HR, talent acquisition and talent management software. The product includes recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) that provides global recruitment services; recruitment technology solutions; onboarding solutions, which offer… Read More
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Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The History Of The World
Apple is not the most valuable company in the history of the world. It’s not even Microsoft, which was reported to have been toppled by Apple today. It’s IBM by a long shot. Apple’s $661 billion market share does not account for inflation. With inflation in account, IBM remains the historic winner with a 1967 value of $1.3 trillion. The Columbia Journalism Review put… Read More
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How Statwing Makes It Easier To Ask Questions About Data So You Don’t Have To Hire a Statistical Wizard
If you have ever tried to use SPSS you know the nightmare that it can be when trying to do even simple analysis. SPSS is designed for statisticians to analyze data sets. But even statisticians find it aggravating to perform such tasks as making a neat graphic to show the relationship between variables. So here’s what happens. You hire a consultant who can do it for you. That’s… Read More
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The Kicking Of RIM’s Tires Continues, As IBM Reportedly Considers Its Enterprise Unit
The fear and loathing of RIM has been well-documented by this point. At the end of June, the company released its Q1 2013 earnings, which were more than a little disappointing, with RIM reporting its first operating loss in eight years, that it would be cutting 5K+ employees and that the release of its new BlackBerry was again being delayed — this time until the beginning of… Read More
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Oracle Pulls Ads After National Advertising Group Says It Made False Claims Against IBM
Oracle is stopping a marketing campaign attacking IBM in wake of a national advertising board‘s recomendation that the company made false claims when comparing its Exadata technology to competing IBM products. It’s the second time in four months the National Advertising Division (NAD) has taken action against Oracle for making false claims when comparing its Exadata products… Read More
