I’m involved in writing a Gigaom Research Roadmap on what I call the distributed core. File sync-and-share has rapidly moved from a consumer convenience to theĀ coreĀ element of a distributed computing architecture… Read more »
Another proof that CIOs are out of touch with today’s business imperatives comes from Sierra Ventures CIO Network. At a recent CIO Summit, the venture firm polled the roughly 40 attendees… Read more »
Oracle reported quarterly earnings well below expectation, prompting many to repeat Marc Andreessen’s recent suggestion that big enterprise software companies were faced with a ticking clock. Hardware sales were way down… Read more »
The big news over the weekend was SAP’s U.S. subsidiary’s $3.4 billion acquisition of SuccessFactors. Arik Hesseldahl is amongst those seeing this as an attempt to boost SAP’s cloud abilities. Larry… Read more »
Intel has reported record quarterly revenues of $13.1 billion, slightly higher than analyst expectations. Customers continue to spend on data center equipment, with revenues for Intel’s data center group up 15%… Read more »
The Itanium spat took a further nasty turn this week, as HP hit Oracle with a lawsuit intended to force the database giant not to drop Itanium support. Oracle originally announced… Read more »
Two startups making waves in the solid state storage market are talking money today. As Dean Takahashi over at VentureBeat reports, Violin Memory has closed a Series C investment round for… Read more »