Google to Drop Sync Support for Blackberry
| April 20thCan you smell blood in the water? It looks like Google does. In a blog post released today, the company announced that on June 1, it will drop support for Google Sync for BlackBerry. The...»

EMC Services Revenue Up 21% With Focus on Cloud, Big Data
| April 20thEMC reported revenue of $5.09 billion in the first quarter of 2012 yesterday, an increase of 11% from the same period in 2011. The result came up short of expectations, however, as analysts forecast revenue to come in...»
OpenStack’s Game: The Enemy’s Gate Is Down
| April 19thWith Its New Marketplace, Amazon Web Services is Becoming the Next Microsoft
| April 19thAmazon Web Services Marketplace launched this morning. It's a comprehensive service that makes the company a full-fledged app seller with the undoubtable potential to move further up the stack and become the next...»
HP Offering Outsourced Social Media Analytics and Management Services
| April 19thThe social enterprise continues to dominate the business services discussion, as evidenced by this week's launch of HP Social Enterprise Services, a portfolio designed to help customers deploy and benefit from big data analytics-driven...»


Hitachi Acquires PRIZIM as a Part of Green Initiative
| April 19thTokyo-based IT services giant Hitachi acquired a small services provider called PRIZIM this week for an undisclosed sum. The company’s 45 employees are based in Maryland, offering services that can help companies better manage...»
Deloitte Says Compliance is Big in 2012
| April 19thServices behemoth Deloitte released some interesting new figures about how enterprises deal with security and regulatory compliance, the challenges involved and what is expected for the coming year. A poll that found that almost 58...»

Bang up Quarter for Gazzang as Big Data Security Comes Into Focus
| April 18thGazzang, an Austin-based Big Data security start-up, said it recorded its strongest quarter to date in Q1 thanks to surging interest in its data encryption and key management Platform-as-a-Service. The PaaS allows enterprises to apply data encryption to...»
VMware Gets Into Cloud Consulting Services, Makes Benchmarking Acquisition
| April 17thVMware is the latest major technology market player to get into the cloud consultancy game with this week's formation of VMware Accelerate Advisory Services, a new business group of former IT executives that aims to lend their expertise...»
Raising Questions About IBM’s Services Approach
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2013: The Year of Big Data Tool Enhancements Is Underway
| February 25thI mentioned in a previous blog, “2013 Big Data Outlook”, that I thought that 2013 would be the year of significant big data tool innovations. And it didn’t take
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