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IBM And SAP Have A Tough Road Ahead Against Amazon's Low Margin Cloud
Two tech titans of yesteryear, IBM and SAP, had depressing quarterly earnings call this week. The worst part? Both are pinning their hopes on the very thing that is eating their lunch: cloud computing....
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Has There Ever Been A Worse Time To Be In The Enterprise Hardware Business?
Technology journalist Robert Cringley thinks IBM is doomed because it just sold its Intel server business to Lenovo. On the contrary, this may be the clearest indication that IBM may thrive. After all,...
View ArticleThe Enterprise Strikes Back On Open Source Contributions
In celebrating the significant contributions Twitter, Facebook and other Web giants have made to open source, did ReadWrite fail to credit more traditional software vendors for their own contributions?...
View ArticleBig Data Isn't Just For The Enterprise These Days
Around this time of year, the concentration of hoopla around Big Data, data warehousing and business intelligence is so thick you could probably make a chart about it. (I'm sure someone already has.) A...
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Amazon And IBM vs. Open Source Hadoop: Bigness May Not Beat Quality
At the heart of the Big Data movement is Hadoop, an open-source framework used for storing and processing large quantities of data. For years open source startups Cloudera and Hortonworks have had the...
View ArticleHP Wants To Be Your OpenStack Vendor
OpenStack is an open-source vehicle for rapidly provisioning data center resources, and it's becoming one of the biggest movements in enterprise IT in years. HP wants it to be theirs, and the company...
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IBM Partners With Twitter To Help Businesses Make Big Data Decisions
IBM wants to help companies better understand trends and opinions by analyzing data in 140-characters or less. The technology giant announced a partnership with the hip, young Twitter on Wednesday that...
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Applications Drive The Biggest Money In Big Data
We're still fixating on all the wrong Big Data startups. Hortonworks, one of the primary companies behind Hadoop, recently went public to great fanfare and a $1.2 billion valuation. But Hortonworks and...
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IBM The World's Largest Cloud? Not Even Close
Sometimes an untruth is so breathtaking in its audacity that you have to at least admire the chutzpah that gave it birth. Take, for example, IBM's claim that it now does $7 billion in "cloud revenue,"...
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This Internet Of Things Hardware Kit May Be A Maker's Best Friend
Two leading technology companies have joined forces to concoct a speedier way of building Internet of Things prototype or test devices. Chip designer ARM and IT giant IBM devised a kit for testing out...
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