IBM
- IBM establishes “One Channel” team…
The team is designed to align channel operations from across the company in an effort to provide a broader, more competitive partner experience, according to Big Blue, while also increasing IBM’s focus on the recruitment of new partners, developers and independent software vendors.
http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/2395350/ibm-unveils-one-channel-team
- IBM Cloud Chief: “We are in a marathon”
But LeBlanc believes he’s got a good story to tell. IBM has set up “40 different data centers in 15 different countries,” he said, with an eye toward being in the right place in accord with customers’ needs.
http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/13/ibm-cloud-chief-were-in-a-marathon/
- IBM finds security flaw in dating apps…
Something to consider as the internet of things tracks more of our personal health data…The study revealed a fearful fact for the businesses too. According to the study, employees of almost 50% companies use the dating apps which were found vulnerable. This makes the corporate data endangered too.
http://techfrag.com/2015/02/13/ibms-research-cautions-mobile-dating-app-users/
- IBM & Apple partnership to expand…
The first apps to be released solved specific problems in specific industries. In tech talk, they were for vertical industries. Each of the apps had a catch name. There was one for flight planning for airlines named Passenger+, and insurance company customer service app was named Retention. Now, the two have begun work on their horizontal apps, says a spokesperson for IBM. One of those apps supply-chain, which helps to match how much product, is expected to be sold with how many materials need to be ordered.
http://www.dailymailtimes.com/apple-and-ibm-partnership-to-expand/443/
- Another brutal article on IBM current performance:
Here’s the outcome of all this in a nutshell: recently, IBM failed to win a $600 million contract with the CIA to handle all of that agency’s cloud computing, even though its offer was actually 30 percent less costly than Amazon’s winning bid. Let that sink in: book-seller Amazon beat IBM for a major technological, government job. IBM is a giant with enormous background in mainframe computing and government contracts. Here’s what’s most frightening. IBM’s bid was rejected on “technical grounds.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-a-georgescu/ibm-a-lesson-for-american_b_6659702.html
- IBM drops patent bomb on Priceline.com
The patents span 10 years, starting in 1999. They cover a setting up a user account with single-sign-on in a federate computing environment; a way to present applications as an interactive service; a method for presenting advertising as an interactive service; and a way to preserve state information between a client and server.
Oracle
- Oracle aims to abandon Medicaid program, Oregon to sue — again
The state intends to file another lawsuit against Oracle America later today, related to the corporation not renewing its contract to provide technology for Medicaid enrollment, an attorney for the state said in U.S. District Court today.
- Why Oracle Thinks It’s a Lead Horse in Digital Marketing
Remember why Redwood City, Calif.-based Oracle bought Responsys for $1.5 billion? It was a dive into B2C marketing for Oracle, to compliment its previous buy of B2B marketing automation capabilities with Eloqua.
- Oracle Triggers Price War In The Server Market
Now, Oracle has introduced the fifth generation of its Exadata line, named Oracle Exadata Database Machine X5, at cutthroat prices. This new system is priced at $562,000, which it claims is about 40% cheaper than the existing products offered by VCE, the joint venture of Cisco and EMC .
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2908486-oracle-triggers-price-war-in-the-server-market
HP
- HP acquires Voltage Security with a view to data encryption
Voltage provides solutions focused around data encryption and tokenization, and its services are intended to bolster HP’s existing Atalla cloud encryption and data security product.
Other:
- Google launched an open-source cross platform benchmarking tool for cloud services
The PerfKit tools currently support Google’s own Compute Engine, Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure clouds. Google says it has worked on this project with over 30 researchers, companies and customers, including ARM, Canonical, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Rackspace and Red Hat.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/google-launches-open-source-cross-cloud-benchmarking-tool/
- New Relic Challenging HP, IBM, Others In APM Market
New Relic’s APM software lets companies monitor the performance of their software apps and related areas, including server applications and browser applications.
http://news.investors.com/technology/021115-738890-new-relic-fiscal-q3-earnings-preview.htm
- Companies cutting the most jobs:
Look who came in at number one:Likely due in part to falling demand for personal computers, Hewlett-Packard’s revenue has fallen each year since 2011, when it reported revenue of $127 billion. The company employed roughly 350,000 people at that time, but this figure has fallen in proportion with the computer maker’s sales. In May, HP announced it would fire about 16,000 employees as part of a multi-year restructuring plan. The company announced an additional 5,000 job cuts in October, bringing the total cuts announced to 21,000, far more than any other public American company reviewed. In total, the plan could reduce HP’s workforce by at least 50,000 employees. As of October 31st, HP employed 302,000 workers worldwide.
http://247wallst.com/special-report/2015/02/09/companies-cutting-the-most-jobs/2/
- Teradata Talks Apps, But Don’t Think AppExchange
As you might suspect, Teradata’s not talking about apps you can download onto a smartphone. Big data can’t be that easy. The Aster Apps Center is also not a Force.com-like app-development platform-as-a-service (PaaS) or a Salesforce AppExchange-like community where companies can offer their own apps built on a PaaS platform.
- Tableau Software is Changing the Way We Visualize Data https://ctovision.com/2015/02/tableau-software-changing-way-visualize-data/