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Joyent to Amazon: It’s on
Joyent isn’t being coy about it: It wants to compete head on with Amazon and that means it will offer many more options including some, it says, are cheaper than analogous AWS services. Read more »
How data warehousing is now a cost-effective solution for businesses
Data-warehouse providers are quickly adding Hadoop distributions, or even their own versions of Hadoop, into their architecture, adding further cost advantages to collections of extremely large data sets. Finding the talent to manage this newly converged environment will not be easy, but it presents tremendous opportunity for companies willing to take some risk. Read more »
Dell snaps up Enstratius to build cloud momentum
With Enstratius, Dell gets enterprise-class cloud management capabilities, says Enstratius CTO George Reese. Read more »
The week in cloud: So much for a million clouds; AWS chief takes on private clouds
Shhhhh, it looks like cloud computing is not immune from industry consolidation and Amazon Web Services gets testy about private cloud adoption. Read more »
HP Slate 7 hits US for $169. How does it stack up against Google’s $199 Nexus 7?
You can finally buy an HP Slate 7 in the U.S. for $169.99, but will you? I think it’s a tough sell for HP when the Nexus 7 is priced just $30 more and has a better screen. Read more »
Why OpenStack is like kale — it’s cheap, easy to source and good for you
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OpenStack, like kale, can be baked, roasted, sliced, diced, sauteed and pureed to be made part of anything. Or at least that’s what its backers hope. Read more »
Leap Motion gets its gesture control integrated with select HP PCs
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Leap Motion, which is making a 3-D gesture-based interface has signed a deal with HP to get its hardware on select HP computers. Read more »
Cloudscaling, HP update their OpenStack clouds
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Just in time for the OpenStack Summit: new-look vendor Cloudscaling and legacy IT giant HP beef up their respective OpenStack clouds. Read more »
Rackspace to telcos: build your OpenStack cloud on us
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Telcos and service providers wanting to compete with Amazon in public cloud services can jump-start that effort by tapping Rackspace, says Rackspace. Read more »
Cloud wars to rage on with dueling OpenStack, AWS events next week
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Can’t get enough cloud? Just wait till next week when OpenStack and Amazon Web Services host simultaneous events 3,000 miles apart. Read more »
Cloud and data first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
Cloud computing is finally starting to add value to business, as those in charge of cloud within enterprises are moving from talking to doing. That much was very evident in the first quarter of 2013. Read more »
Serious question: Is it too late for HP Project Moonshot to disrupt anything?
If you want an HP Project Moonshot server, you can get one today. The question is many of the big, webscale companies HP is targeting are already building their own servers. Read more »
HP’s Chairman Ray Lane to step down; HP loses two other board members
In news that may boost the spirits of many HP shareholders, Ray Lane is stepping down as chairman of the troubled IT giant. John H. Hammergren and G. Kennedy Thompson will also leave the board. Read more »
FWIW, Mark Hurd squelches Dell rumors
Oracle co-president Mark Hurd, in response to a question, indicates zero interest in becoming Dell CEO. Blackstone Group reportedly had Hurd on its short list of prospective picks should it win the Dell deal. Read more »
Hurd? Capellas? Let’s be bold. How about Gerstner, Bradley, Bartz, Otellini as new Dell chief?
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Blackstone reportedly reached out to Oracle co-prez Mark Hurd to gauge his interest in being Dell CEO should Blackstone’s buyout bid succeed. Here are a few much more interesting options. Read more »
Google expands Chromebook availability to six more countries while doubling down in U.S.
Chromebooks are now on sale in Germany, France, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands, while in the U.S. the devices can now be bought in 1,000 more Best Buy stores. Read more »
Now Autonomy is under investigation for fraud in the U.K.
Already under scrutiny by British accountancy authorities over its pre-HP-sale book-keeping, Autonomy’s former management are now also the subjects of a more serious fraud investigation. Read more »
How fourth-quarter 2012 will affect IT spending in 2013
Worldwide IT spending finished out 2012 with a growth rate of 3.8 percent over 2011, the lowest growth rate since 2009. Fourth-quarter 2012 earnings reports and guidance were notable in their lack of any decisively positive news to raise 2013 spending expectations much. Those optimistic about […] Read more »
Dell buyout just got (much) more complicated
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Uh oh. Carl Icahn thinks the deal crafted by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners to take Dell private for $24 billion woefully underestimates the company’s worth. Stay tuned… Read more »
How to use big data to make better business decisions
Companies are rushing to embrace the promise of big data to understand both their businesses and the ways in which customers interact with them. But effective data-based decisions are not made in response to simplistic data reporting; they are made in response to considered and ongoing data analysis. Read more »
Rackspace gussies up private cloud with new OpenCenter dashboard
Rackspace says its new dashboard, part of its latest OpenStack-based private cloud release, will speed up cloud rollouts and configuration tasks by adding point-and-click capabilities for enteprise users. Read more »
A plea to HP: make your mobile products pop
The Slate7 isn’t terrible, but it ain’t great either. It looks like HP rushed this one, and it needs to do better next time if it wants to be a contender in consumer tablets. Read more »
Exclusive: RightScale is first to resell, support Google Compute Engine
The RightScale-GCE deal gives RightScale early lead on capturing Google cloud customers and gives Google infrastructure credibility — and support — for business customers. Read more »
What LG’s webOS buy means for Google TV
LG is buying webOS from HP to tun it into a Smart TV operating system. The question is: Where does that leave Google TV? Read more »
Here’s HP’s comeback tablet: the steel-framed, Android-based Slate7
The small sequel to the ill-fated TouchPad opts for Android, running on a dual-core processor. The big selling points appear to be a stainless steel shell and the inclusion of Beats Audio. Read more »
HP’s off-and-on romance with its PC business is on again
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Revenue for Hewlett-Packard’s personal systems was off 8 percent year over year, but Meg Whitman reiterated that the company is devoted to this margin-stretched business. Read more »
Amazon gets (more) serious about the enterprise. No kidding
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The fact that Amazon Web Services is targeting enterprise accounts is nothing new. The company’s just getting more blatant about it. Read more »
After bashing Ballmer, former Microsoft exec outlines turnaround plan for the company
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Joachim Kempin is the former Microsoft exec who handled the company’s interesting relationships with OEM partners. Now he’s weighing in with ideas to bring Microsoft back to power. Read more »
This week in cloud: Amazon upsets Apple; NTT backs Cloud Foundry; cloud taxes in dispute
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Amazon is numero uno in consumer appeal, beating out even Apple and Google, according to Harris Interactive. Also, Cloud Foundry gets big backer in NTT and states reconsider sales taxes on cloud services. Read more »
Watch out HP, IBM, Teradata, Oracle: Amazon Redshift is here
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Can Amazon take on the giants of data warehousing and win? Now we’ll be able to find out as its Paraccel-based Redshift service comes online. Read more »
HP planning a new Android tablet? Good luck with that
Is HP about to attempt another comeback in the mobile market? Reports suggest that the company is working on an Android tablet. Sounds good but the Android market is a tough one to crack unless your name is Samsung. Read more »
Autonomy’s pre-HP accounting comes under UK scrutiny
The UK’s Financial Reporting Council has opened an investigation into Autonomy’s reported financials in the two-and-a-half years leading up to its disastrous sale to HP. Read more »
Report: HP still has no idea what to do with itself
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The latest drama in HP’s ongoing saga is a decidedly wishy-washy story that suggests the board is considering a break up of the company’s businesses. Read more »
Dell buyout deal is reportedly near
The notion of a privately-held Dell, partly owned by Microsoft, is getting closer to reality, according to published reports. A deal in which Microsoft owns a big stake in a PC company shows just how drastically times have changed. Read more »
Another Microsoft partner plays the field: HP outs a $329 Chromebook
Following Samsung and Acer, HP has thrown its hat into the Google Chromebook ring. The new $329 Pavilion may appeal to those wanting more screen and less Microsoft. Read more »
Carly Fiorina is selling herself as political pundit; not everyone’s buying
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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, who left that company under a cloud, now paints herself as an economic whiz kid on Sunday morning talk shows. Note to Fiorina: Not everyone has amnesia. Read more »
Acer Chromebook sales eating away at Windows 8 revenues
Acer hasn’t been kind to Microsoft of late and is now trumpeting its Chromebook sales, which account for between 5 and 10 percent of all sales in just two months. Read more »
IBM says its cloud biz is growing like crazy but provides no real numbers
IBM, and every other tech company in the universe, likes to tout its cloud computing revenue without actually disclosing it. For its Q4 IBM claimed a whopping 80 percent growth rate in cloud revenue but no real numbers. Read more »
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The fourth quarter of 2012 in cloud
The last quarter of 2012 saw the rise of cloud-based databases, the cloud awakening of software giants such as HP, and many cloud outages that have left question marks. Enterprises found more IT dollars, and they will focus on the cloud for much of that spending. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Rackspace will build its own servers just like Facebook and Google do
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Rackspace’s bet on Open Compute has been taken to a new level as the hosting provider has decided to build its own servers — a move it hopes will save it up to 30 percent in costs. Read more »
