HP buying data warehousing vendor Vertica for analytics
Hewlett-Packard announced Monday it plans to buy data warehousing and analytics vendor Vertica for an undisclosed sum. The move comes shortly after HP phased out its Neoview data warehousing platform, which failed to gain much market share since its launch several years ago.
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Dell introduces server with 96 CPU cores
Dell on Monday introduced a server that can accommodate up to 96 CPU cores -- a big boost in the computational power provided by its hardware. The Dell PowerEdge C6145 is one of the fastest servers the company has ever introduced, said Armando Acosta, a PowerEdge-C product manager at Dell. The server includes two four-socket nodes for up to eight 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 series processors.
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New community marketplace seeks cloud developers
Developers interested in coding projects for public cloud services have a new avenue to find work in the form of CloudSpokes, a community marketplace announced Monday by Appirio. CloudSpokes is taking a cue from TopCoder, which for years has run application-development competitions. Like TopCoder, CloudSpokes' to-be-formed community of developers will compete for prize money in connection with various coding jobs posted on the site.
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Samsung, SAP to roll out analytics for Android devices
Samsung SDS and SAP have created BI (business intelligence) software for Android mobile devices, the companies announced Monday in conjunction with Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Samsung Mobile Business Intelligence Dashboard is available in the U.S., Europe and Asia for Android devices including Samsung's Galaxy S smartphone and Galaxy Tab tablet, according to a statement.
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Samsung makes Galaxy smartphone more enterprise-friendly
Hoping to make Android more attractive to security-minded CIOs, Samsung has added encryption and integrated Cisco's AnyConnect VPN client on its latest smartphone, the Galaxy S II, it said on Sunday at the Mobile World Congress. The encryption is implemented on the smartphone's hardware to improve performance, according to Samsung. Data stored on both the internal and external storage can be encrypted. Security features are not much use for an enterprise without the ability to manage them, so Samsung also announced it has partnered with Sybase on mobile device management.
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Adobe launches hosted e-form service
Adobe has launched a service for conducting online surveys that the company says should ease the process of setting them up and analyzing their results. "Form and survey management is traditionally a very time-consuming process, often times involving IT," said Mark Grilli, Adobe director of product marketing. "You'd use one mechanism for retrieving information, and another for doing analysis. We thought having an end-to-end solution would give knowledge workers the tools they need to get their jobs done."
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W3C announces that HTML5 will be finished in 2014
Those curious about the final release date for the hotly debated HTML5 need wonder no more: The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) plans to finalize the standard by July 2014, the organization announced Monday. "This is the first time we've been able to answer people's questions of when it will be done," said Ian Jacobs, head of W3C marketing and communications. "More and more people from more and more industries are asking when it will be done. They require stability in the standard and very high levels of interoperability."
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Voice over LTE inches closer to reality
Mobile network operators and their equipment suppliers are working hard to make telephony over data-oriented LTE (Long-Term Evolution) mobile networks a reality, with the number of demos at Mobile World Congress a sign they are getting closer. The GSM Association (GSMA), an industry body, is conducting a demonstration with U.S. operator Verizon using LG Electronics' Revolution smartphone and a network from Alcatel-Lucent. Verizon is also involved in a second demo that uses a smartphone from Samsung and a network from Ericsson.
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Scientists calculate total data stored to date: 295+ exabytes
Humankind has stored more than 295 billion gigabytes (or 295 exabytes) of data since 1986, according to a new report based on research by scientists at the University of Southern California. The scientists also concluded that 2002 should be considered the beginning of the digital age because it was the first year digital storage capacity overtook total analog capacity worldwide.
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Microsoft to pay out 'billions' as part of Nokia deal
Nokia on Sunday hinted that Microsoft essentially won a bidding war against Google to supply software to the world’s largest handset maker and that the software giant agreed to pay “billions†of dollars for the privilege. It also suggested that the first phones running Windows Phone software are likely to come out this year.
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