Google to Drop Sync Support for Blackberry

Alex Williams | April 20th

Can 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...»

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EMC Services Revenue Up 21% With Focus on Cloud, Big Data

Jeff Kelly | April 20th

EMC 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...»

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OpenStack’s Game: The Enemy’s Gate Is Down

Matt Weinberger | April 19th

There's this idea out there that OpenStack, the open source cloud computing platform project started by Rackspace Hosting and NASA and since taken up by over 150 other companies, is out to erode the...»

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With Its New Marketplace, Amazon Web Services is Becoming the Next Microsoft

Alex Williams | April 19th

Amazon 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...»

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HP Offering Outsourced Social Media Analytics and Management Services

Matt Weinberger | April 19th

The 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...»

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Hitachi Acquires PRIZIM as a Part of Green Initiative

Maria Deutscher | April 19th

Tokyo-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...»

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Deloitte Says Compliance is Big in 2012

Maria Deutscher | April 19th

Services 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...»

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Bang up Quarter for Gazzang as Big Data Security Comes Into Focus

Jeff Kelly | April 18th

Gazzang, 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...»

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VMware Gets Into Cloud Consulting Services, Makes Benchmarking Acquisition

Matt Weinberger | April 17th

VMware 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...»

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Raising Questions About IBM’s Services Approach

Alex Williams | April 17th

IBM posted mixed earnings results today. Its dividend beat street estimates by 13 cents but revenues were flat with services showing limited gains. Big Blue's Global Technology Services segment saw revenues increase 2% to...»

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