For those who call tablets personal computers, Apple Inc. is the world's top PC maker, according to research firm Canalys. Canalys reported Wednesday that one in five PCs shipped in the fourth quarter of 2012 was an Apple device, and most ...
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Computerworld - Amid a flurry of news surrounding the Watson supercomputer, IBM this week released major upgrades to three enterprise storage products, including a self-service software portal for end users. The Log in screen for the ...
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JDA Software Group, Inc., The Supply Chain Company announced that PUMA Retail, one of the world’s leading sports lifestyle companies, selected JDA Allocation in the fourth quarter of 2012 to help streamline and centralize the ...
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The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) intends to create a standard method to evaluate the energy efficiency of ultra-low power(ULP) microcontrollers. To date, the industry has lacked a common method to test, validate, ...
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Marius Haas, President of Enterprise Solutions, Dell Dell announced on Friday that it has received SAP HANA certification for its data centre products for the first time, and has reaffirmed its commitment to growing its enterprise ...
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Moneycorp, the UK foreign currency and payments company, is now supporting its services in a virtualized data center. Founded in 1979, Moneycorp is a APS11bn provider of wholesale and commercial foreign exchange operations, with a growing ...
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The recent spat between Samsung and Qualcomm with Samsung announcing an eight core IC for mobile phones and Qualcomm's CEO dismissing it as a publicity stunt, is put in context by ST-Ericsson Fellow Marco Cornero and Andreas Anyuru. ...
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Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
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Facebook's Open Compute Project is being expanded to incorporate ARM processors, providing new options for companies shopping for low-cost hardware to build out cloud computing environments. Chip vendors from both the ARM and x86 sides of ...
To simplify the roll-out of clusters for big data applications, Skytap is now offering pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop templates that can run in the company's public cloud. There is a growing interest in big data using Hadoop, but to even ...
Walid Gomaa, Business Unit and Sales Manager of HP’s Storage Division, HP Middle East As part of its Middle East Storage Roadshow, HP on Wednesday launched a new portfolio of storage platforms for enterprises of all sizes in the ...
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As brick and mortar and online retail channels merge, store operations executives are struggling with two key issues: visibility into incoming online demand and aligning this demand with in-store labor. To overcome these issues, early ...
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Micron on Thursday unveiled its first terabyte-sized solid-state drive (SSD) for consumers, the Crucial M500, which will sell for under $600, or 60 cents per gigabyte. The new SSD, almost doubles the capacity over its predecessor the ...
IDG News Service - SAP's flagship Business Suite enterprise resource planning (ERP) software can now run on top of the HANA in-memory database, in a move that stands to open new frontiers of competition with the likes of Oracle, IBM and ...
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Data network managers are realising they need to find smarter ways to improve performance,but the addition of more hardware such as servers,switches and processor cores is unsustainable,writes Troy Bailey,director of marketing,LSI The ...