IT departments are struggling to adapt to new economic realities and a rapidly changing technology environment that includes fundamental shifts in mobile, social, and cloud computing technologies. The lingering effects of the downturn marked by flat-to-negative IT budgets are forcing IT departments to reassess and more accurately measure the real business value delivered by both…
On April 9, 2012, Microsoft decided to buy AOL’s 800 technology patents for at least $1 billion. For a price of $1.3 million per patent, Microsoft’s keen interest on AOL’s intangible property is understandable because patents do play a great part in legal and business strategies especially now that the competition is getting steeper among…
HP today announced the launch of the HP Converged Cloud, which promises to create, manage and secure hybrid cloud environments. The initiative is the part of HP’s operational change plans recently put by CEO Meg Whitman. Designed for the enterprise and termed as the first industry strategy and portfolio based cloud solution on a single…
Facebook reached an agreement to buy Instagram for $1 billion according to Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook “Timeline” . “I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook.” Zuckerberg says Instagram will help Facebook offer the best experience for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people…
Over 500 executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and thought leaders across business and technology attended the Data 2.0 Summit this week in San Francisco with CloudTimes being a media sponsor at the show. With over 100 speakers from Microsoft, Google, HP, Salesforce, Data.com, Mozilla and LinkedIn, the Data 2.0 Summit explored topics around Big Data, Social Data, and Open…
Dell announced on Monday that it has reached a deal to acquire Wyse Technology, a privately held provider of cloud computing and desktop virtualization technologies, for an undisclosed amount. The deal is the latest in a string of moves by the computer maker to move beyond its hardware business into management and services offerings thus…
Cloud computing is one of the tech buzzword of the decade, and can be considered another IT revolution since the time the Internet was discovered. The reliable and fast connections have also changed the way people connect and communicate. The rise of the cloud robotics also known as brain robots may have yet another major…
During his speech this morning at Cloudforce in San Francisco, Salesforce.com CEO and chairman Marc Benioff stated that the social revolution has created a social divide. “The reason why the social revolution is different is because it’s bleeding into our society,” Benioff said, noting how sites like Twitter and Facebook played a significant role last…
Small and medium businesses are increasingly challenged to provide comprehensive security for their mobile infrastructures without sacrificing the productivity it was designed for in the first place. For many, the problem is not so much about understanding the primary security issues, such as prevention, detection and response, but rather how to provide that type of…
Executives from Juniper Networks and ZTE discussed last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the way in which networks are evolving in the face of changing customer demands, highlighting approaches operators can take to support growth in new services while offsetting flatness in legacy businesses. Speaking in this morning’s keynote, Kevin Johnson, CEO…