In a shift, firms say U.S. will lead IT growth
IT hardware and software companies expect to see most of their revenue coming this year from the U.S. market, which is a reversal from the last two years when China and India led, according to KPMG in its annual survey of the technology business climate.
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Update: Oracle buys Pillar Data Systems
Oracle is building out its array of hardware products with the acquisition of storage vendor Pillar Data Systems, the company announced Wednesday. Terms of the deal, which is expected to close in July, were not disclosed. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison already has a majority stake in Pillar. The deal was engineered by an independent committee of Oracle board members, according to a statement.
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Cloudera outfits Hadoop with management tools
Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management tools. "As more and more Hadoop use cases are moving to production, people are starting to care about service level agreements and the quality of service provided to end-users," said Charles Zedlewski, Cloudera vice president of products.
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Google goes after Facebook with Google+
After months of speculation, Google has launched a social network to rival Facebook.
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HP to open cloud, R&D centers in China
Hewlett-Packard is opening two new centers in China, one focused on cloud computing, and the other on research, as the company ramps up to address this large market. The company opened a new HP Cloud Executive Briefing Center in the Chinese city of Tianjin near Beijing on Tuesday. The center will help customers in "building, enabling and operating" HP cloud products, CEO Leo Apotheker said Wednesday in Beijing.
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Ericsson's LTE Advanced demo hits almost 1Gbps
If you're impressed with the current generation of LTE services, wait until you get a load of LTE Advanced.Ericsson announced on Tuesday that it had conducted a demonstration of LTE Advanced technology in Sweden that saw speeds peak at just under 1Gbps, which marks a tenfold increase over the peak speeds of current LTE networks.
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Oracle: Google owes us $2.6B
An Oracle damages expert estimates that Google owes the company $2.6 billion for alleged Java patent violations, according to a court filing made Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Microsoft to net more mobile profits from Android licenses
Microsoft profits from mobile licenses are poised for a bigger increase -- due, ironically, to increased sales of Android devices, not Window
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Security company infects client's network with 'Trojan mouse'
Security consulting company NetraGard has demonstrated that something as seemingly innocuous as a USB mouse, along with tidbits of information freely available on the Internet, can provide a hacker quick and easy access to a seemingly secure IT
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IDC: World's data will grow 50X in next decade
In 2011 alone, 1.8 zettabytes (or 1.8 trillion gigabytes) of data, the equivalent to every U.S. citizen writing 3 tweets per minute for 26,976 years will be created. And over the next decade, the number of servers managing the world's data stores will grow by ten times. Those are some of the findings in the fifth annual IDC Digital Universe study that was released today.
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Romonet brings predictive data center tool to U.S.
Data center engineers looking to maximize energy efficiency can now model design changes using a tool called Prognose from U.K. startup Romonet. The software lets engineers construct a graphical model of their data center, including the power and cooling equipment and how it's all laid out, and then make changes to the model and see what impact those changes would have on overall energy consumption and efficiency.
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Yahoo forms Hortonworks, a new Hadoop company
Yahoo and Benchmark Capital have founded a company tasked with advancing the open source Hadoop software framework for applications that manage massive amounts of data. The company, called Hortonworks, will be staffed with some of the most active engineers who contribute to the Hadoop Apache project, of which Yahoo has been a main backer.
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Microsoft boosts Java accommodations on Azure cloud
Microsoft is improving accommodations for Java developers on the Windows Azure cloud, with an upgraded plug-in for Eclipse-based software developers.
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