Big data will drive $232 billion in spending through 2016. It will directly or indirectly drive $96 billion of worldwide IT spending in 2012, and is forecast to drive $120 billion of IT spending in 2013. Gartner Research published the results today. They draw several conclusions from their research: Big data is not a distinct […]
Posted on October 18th, 2012 by admin
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This week comes the news about Media Temple and its plans with Dell and Morphlabs to give customers their own “private cloud,” consisting of a souped up Flash-filled server, complete with all the fixings for automating the mind bending complexity when adopting a new infrastructure. On Monday, Dreamhost announced its new DreamCompute service, a public […]
Posted on October 18th, 2012 by admin
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Netbiscuits, the mobile development platform that has worked with the likes of eBay, Google, Coca-Cola and 15,000 other developers on their mobile web services, is ramping up its game as smartphone usage continues to accelerate worldwide. The company today is announcing that it has raised $27 million in a Series C round. This also marks […]
Posted on October 17th, 2012 by admin
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Intel just reported its third quarter 2012 earnings with revenues of $13.5 billion, flat compared to the prior year. Intel’s net income was $3 billion, up 5.1% compared to last year. Operating income was $3.8 billion, flat compared to a year ago. Its earnings per share were at $0.58 cents per share, a 7.4% increase […]
Posted on October 17th, 2012 by admin
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Boston and Israel-based Perfecto Mobile, the makers of a testing and monitoring platform for mobile apps and websites, is today announcing it has secured $15 million in a Series C round of financing. The new funding was led by Globespan Capital Partners, and saw participation from existing investors Carmel, Vertex and the Waisbein Fund. The company’s success is something of a […]
Posted on October 16th, 2012 by admin
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Dreamhost has built a public cloud service called DreamCompute that is built on OpenStack, the open cloud infrastructure. The new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) shows how a federated, universal cloud shows market promise to give customers a greater choice from open and proprietary offerings. Dreamhost, a longstanding hosting provider, has over the past few […]
Posted on October 16th, 2012 by admin
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There are 5 steps that CIO can take to ensure timely recovery from disasters that impact data centers: Instantiation. Architecture and design of an IT environment to which production information can be continuously replicated. Replication. Ongoing transmission of key transactional data in an encrypted manner to the replicated environment. Configuration. Identification of the resources to […]
Posted on October 16th, 2012 by admin
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In 2009, Narendra Rocherolle of 83 Degrees and Webshots and Josh Felser of Spinner, Crackle, and Freestyle Capital founded The Start Project, an accelerator that would rely on the help of a group of high-profile Silicon Valley advisors and entrepreneurs to help bring new ideas to market. Not long after, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, WordPress […]
Posted on October 15th, 2012 by admin
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Box gives a clear perspective about the approach to its business — build a best of breed service for managing all those files in the cloud. Egnyte takes a different approach to file management. The company has developed a cloud file server that syncs with any device managed by IT. Files are available offline and […]
Posted on October 15th, 2012 by admin
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Four months after buying restaurant-focused, point-of-sale app Breadcrumb, Groupon is putting the acquisition to work in its bid to grow its local commerce business. Today it is launching the iPad app nationwide across the U.S., following a limited pilot in New York — and is throwing in offering to sell users an iPad for those interested […]
Posted on October 14th, 2012 by admin
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