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Oracle Makes Bold, Risky Move With Big Data Appliance Launch January 11, 2012 
Oracle has released its Big Data Appliance, which it announced last year at Oracle OpenWorld. With no release date promised, the industry was surprised by its relative speed to market. Less surprising was Oracle's enlistment of Cloudera -- the leading provider of Hadoop system management tools -- to provide an Apache Hadoop distribution and tools for the appliance.
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Gartner Dims Growth Expectations for Global IT Spending in 2012 January 06, 2012 
Gartner has released its global IT spending projections for 2012: It is forecasting a 3.7 percent increase from 2011 to $3.8 trillion. This forecast is a downward revision from its earlier 2012 outlook of 4.6 percent growth. Last year, IT spending clocked in at $3.7 trillion, which was up 6.9 percent from 2010 levels.
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Leaked Road Map Offers Glimpse of Future Windows Phones December 28, 2011 
A road map for the future development of the Windows Phone OS has apparently been leaked. The new information comes in the wake of a recent flurry of criticism over Windows Phone's performance in the smartphone market. The road map is purportedly accurate as of October 2011.
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Solving IBM's IT Conundrums: 'Integration' Is the Word December 20, 2011 
If it's late November or early December, I'm usually traveling to or from Westchester County, New York, home of IBM and its Software Group and Systems and Technology Group's annual IT analyst confabs. In practical ways, these events tend to mirror one another; past strategies and solutions are trotted out for a quick going-over, current efforts are polished and examined, and future plans are discussed at some length.
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RIM Hunkers Down for Long, Cold Summer December 16, 2011 
Research In Motion posted its third-quarter earnings data on Thursday, reporting a 71 percent drop in net income and revealing that its long-awaited next-generation smartphone platform will arrive later than expected. The company reported revenue of $5.2 billion, up 24 percent from last quarter but still under Wall Street expectations.
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Thailand's Summer Floods Leave Intel High and Dry December 12, 2011 
Intel has informed its shareholders that its fourth-quarter results will not match its earlier outlook. The reason: a global shortage of hard disk drives, due to flooding in Thailand earlier this year. Now the company expects fourth-quarter revenue to be approximately $13.7 billion, down from the previous estimate of roughly $14.7 billion.
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HP's Whitman Rolls Up Sleeves, Preps for a Rough 2012 November 22, 2011 
Shares of HP had slightly recovered by mid-day Tuesday from the overnight slide of up to 6 percent they endured following the company's fourth-quarter earnings report Monday. Its fourth-quarter earnings -- HP's first quarter under the guidance of new CEO Meg Whitman -- beat expectations, though its outlook for the coming year left investors unimpressed.
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Google and Co. Hope Price Drops Give Chromebooks New Shine November 21, 2011 
Google and its hardware partners are revamping their approach to Chromebooks with a series of changes. Perhaps most interesting among these, from the consumer perspective at least, is a price cut to the current Samsung and Acer models of roughly $50 or so.
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Calxeda's EnergyCore: No Jack to Intel's Beanstalk November 08, 2011 
Last week, Calxeda launched its ARM-based "EnergyCore" Server on a Chip, which the company said consumes as little as 1.5 watts -- the first server CPU to achieve this milestone. This makes EnergyCore ideal for workloads such as Web serving, Big Data applications, scalable analytics such as Apache Hadoop, media streaming, and mid-tier infrastructure such as caching and in-memory scalable databases, the company said.
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HP: About That PC Spin-off Idea ... October 28, 2011 
HP has made up its mind: New CEO Meg Whitman announced Thursday the PC business is sticking around, at least in the short term. The company had been pondering whether to continue selling personal computers. Earlier this year, under the leadership of then-CEO Leo Apotheker, HP said strategic options such as a sale or spin-off were on the table for the $40.7 billion division.
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Federal CIO Steps Up Data-Consolidation Pressure October 25, 2011 
The potential for saving money through data center consolidation among federal agencies is so great that the newly installed federal chief information officer has now challenged information technology managers to move further and faster to implement the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative.
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The Rise of Utility Computing October 05, 2011 
Oracle is a big company, and that point gets driven home when you start to go in-depth on their products. At a show like OpenWorld, which is dedicated more or less to touching on every aspect of the business, you can quickly get out of your depth. Since the opening keynote on Sunday, the talk has been mainly around things that I know about but don't cover.
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Oracle Goes Hunting for Big Data October 03, 2011 
Oracle announced at its OpenWorld conference on Monday that it's ramping up its move into big data analytics. An Oracle big data appliance was one of the announcements made at OpenWorld 2011 by Thomas Kurian, Oracle executive VP of product development. Big data also featured prominently in a Monday keynote given by Joe Tucci, chairman and CEO of storage systems firm EMC.
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Intel and IBM Form Chip Research Tag Team September 28, 2011 
Two of the world's leading semiconductor manufacturers, Intel and IBM, announced a shared investment Tuesday of $4.4 billion to develop cutting-edge chip technology in the state of New York. The partnership, a continuation of a decade-long project, has two main goals.
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Oracle Bets on High End With Sparc T4 Servers September 27, 2011 
Oracle announced its new Sparc T4 server line on Tuesday, stating the new machines outperform IBM Power7 and HP Itanium-based systems. In fact, the Sparc T4-4-based SuperCluster is 2.4 times faster than an all-IBM solution and 5.7 times faster than the HP Superdome 2, Oracle said.
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Intel Inside Everything September 27, 2011 
Coming just weeks before the beginning of the holiday shopping season so crucial to its consumer OEM/ODM customers, Intel's annual Developer Forum tends to highlight the spun sugar and sweet delights the market can expect in the shorter term. However, as IDF 2011 in San Francisco recently proved, it is the longer-term strategies and technical breakthroughs that form the real meat of the event.
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What's So Special About an Amazon Tablet September 26, 2011 
Amazon's going to make an announcement on Wednesday, and the smart money is on the online retail giant unveiling its long-awaited tablet device. Though Amazon has officially been quiet about whether such a tablet even exists, rumors hold that it will run Android 2.1 and cost considerably less than the iPad's $500 starting price.
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Is HP Plotting Another CEO Flip? September 21, 2011 
Just over a year after taking the job as HP's top executive, CEO Leo Apotheker may soon be unceremoniously escorted to the door. The company's board of directors is reportedly meeting on this and other issues this week. The board is said to be eying former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as a replacement. Whitman clocked in 10-plus years of strong executive leadership at the online auction company.
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Intel Gets Android Inside September 14, 2011 
In an effort to carve out a niche in the burgeoning mobile market, Intel has partnered with Google to optimize future versions of the latter's Android mobile operating system for Intel's Atom line of chips. The announcement was made by Andy Rubin, Android head honcho and Google senior vice president, on Tuesday at the Intel Developer Forum, which runs in San Francisco through Thursday.
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Dead Tablet Walking August 31, 2011 
HP has opted to continue producing its TouchPad tablet device, at least temporarily, in response to an explosion of demand among consumers. That demand was likely spurred by the drastic drop in price the tablet underwent earlier this month -- just after HP announced that it was discontinuing the TouchPad. The device, which sold for $500 when it debuted a few weeks ago, dropped to $99 at some retailers.
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