May 20, 2013, 5:19 am GMT  

24 item(s) containing the term "industry"

Did the ‘Neophiliacs’ Build the Cloud Service Model?

— There’s an inherent sense of almost forced innovation that appears to pervade the information technology industry. As we constantly push forward into perpetual cycles of reinvention, continual enhancement and augmentation after augmentation, one almost has to stop and ask what’s wrong with the software and systems ...
May 17 04:45:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Calculating the True Value of Industry Specific Clouds

— Industry-specific clouds are those PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS services that are tailored for a specific vertical, such as transportation, retail, finance, and healthcare. IDC sees a $65 billion market in these industry solutions for 2013, rising to $100 billion in 2016. The value of industry-specific clouds is that business...
May 17 01:15:00 pm GMT / Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal»

Cisco's success spurs run on networking stocks

— Investors snapped up the stocks of companies that make computer networking gear Thursday after industry leader Cisco's latest quarterly earnings raised hope that business is picking up after a long stretch of lackluster demand.
May 16 07:43:54 pm GMT / Cisco»

How to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data

— A cottage industry is growing up around virtual padlocks that consumers can place on cloud services so that the vendors themselves can't get to the information -- even if the government requests access.And in recent years there have been a lot of those government requests for access from storage-as-a-service provider...
May 16 11:52:59 am GMT / Cloud Computing - Infoworld»

San Francisco axes cellphone warning law in CTIA settlement

— San Francisco killed its cellphone radiation warning law on Tuesday by agreeing to settle a lawsuit by the mobile industry group CTIA.
May 08 09:01:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Why IT Should Start Planning for Storage-As-A-Service and Backup-As-A-Service

— A recent report by IDC shows that Q1 2013 was the worst quarter for worldwide PC shipments since 1994, and it marked the fourth consecutive quarter of year-on-year shipment declines. Many industry experts concluded that tablets and smartphones were the culprit, as they took away a big chunk of ...
May 08 07:48:12 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Channel Matters: Selling Capabilities

— Philippe Fosse, VP EMEA Channel discusses the selling capabilities required to grow your business in the IT industry. He pinpoints five popular profiles of Sales Representatives and shares the profile he deems most important. As always, watch the video blog and share what matters most to you by...
May 08 03:12:29 pm GMT / EMC Feeds »

Q&A: Dell software chief John Swainson talks transformation

— John Swainson has one of the more challenging jobs in the tech industry right now. As president of Dell's software division, he's charged with sorting through all the software Dell has acquired and organizing it into coherent offerings that can further its effort to become a more profitable, software- and servi...
Apr 25 05:01:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Dell News»

10 Earth-Friendly Facts about Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure

— Earth Day is Monday, April 22, providing a moment to reflect on the daily work we are doing to drive greater environmental sustainability at Microsoft and for our customers, partners, and the industry. While Earth Day is only a single day, sustainability is a year-round effort for my Data Center Advanced Development t...
Apr 16 05:30:00 pm GMT / ms datacenters»

PC industry sees worst sales quarter in nearly 20 years

— The effects of sluggish PC sales will be felt throughout Silicon Valley by software and hardware companies, ranging from giant Hewlett-Packard to the tiniest startups, that provide everything from the PCs themselves, to the chips that power them, to the computer mice attached to them.
Apr 11 01:41:12 pm GMT / HP»

Servers, datacenters to see same upheaval as PC industry

— Servers are fun again as Intel and HP pitch new architectures for the datacenter. Server market upheaval is sure to follow---and probably rhyme with what the PC industry has seen.
Apr 10 09:45:05 pm GMT / servers Resources | ZDNet »

With S-Translator, Samsung aims to reach an old industry goal in real time

— The Samsung Galaxy S4 will ship to 155 countries by the end of next month, and its real-time voice translation to help people communicate across borders may be one of its most ambitious features.
Mar 29 07:45:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Cisco News»

Dell Latitude 10 gets some attitude with 20-hour battery, fingerprint reader

— Dell has bolstered security features on its Latitude 10 tablet and offers an extended life battery, all in the hope these add-ons will appeal to large institutional users like the government, healthcare operations and the financial services industry.
Feb 25 06:24:00 pm GMT / Computerworld Dell News»

HP fends off Lenovo, reclaims PC crown

— In its battle for the top spot in the rocky PC industry, Hewlett-Packard has edged out rival Lenovo to take back its leadership position.
Jan 15 01:19:00 am GMT / Computerworld HP News»

SMARTer 2020 Study Offers Further Support for Global Carbon Reductions Potential of the IT Industry

— Our colleagues on Microsoft’s environmental sustainability highlighted a study recently that helps put our roles in Global Foundation Services into perspective. The new SMARTer 2020 study concluded the potential of the IT industry to reduce annual emissions by 9.1 GtCO2e by 2020, which is a staggering seven times gr...
Dec 14 04:00:00 pm GMT / ms datacenters»

On Puppy Farm Vendors, Petco and The Remarkable Analog To Security Consultancies/Integrators…

— Imagine you are part of a company in the “Pet Industry.”  Let’s say dogs, specifically. Imagine further that regardless of whether you work on the end that feeds the dog, provides services focused on grooming the dog, sells accessories for the dog, actually breeds and raises the dog or deals with cle...
Dec 05 11:31:09 pm GMT / Rational Survivability»

Will EU policy smother the cloud?

— Get the back story of how EU policy makers discovered the value of cloud, and the decisions they'll take over the coming year about regulating the industry.
Oct 31 12:10:05 am GMT / Software as Services Blog RSS | ZDNet»

Intel's lowered forecast 'isn't a good sign' for PC industry

— The PC industry got another does of sour news Friday when Intel announced it's cutting its third-quarter revenue outlook.
Sep 08 10:33:00 am GMT / Computerworld HP News»

Corkbin mobile wine app

— Just about all of my time lately has been invested into making Corkbin – a wine app that makes it easy to remember wines you’ve had. It’s been a fantastic project, working with great tech minds as well as getting more into the wine industry. For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, I invit...
Feb 14 04:54:31 pm GMT / The AppGirl Blog»

We lost a Giant

— Earlier today we lost one of the giants of technology. Steve Jobs was one of most creative, demanding, brilliant, hard-driving, and innovative leaders in the entire industry. He has created new business areas, introduced new business models, brought companies back from the dead, and fundamentally changed how the world...
Oct 06 01:39:29 am GMT / Perspectives»

New Zealand, Aotearoa

— There aren't many people here. Major bonus. High season on the south island feels like low season in Europe. And secondly, there's not a lot of industry outside of agriculture and a king's shit load of rugged terrain, making it possible to be off the grid for days. No cell phone access if you point in the right directi...
Jan 11 05:38:23 am GMT / Technology is Dead»

looking at 2010

— The Job Market for IT Architects 2009 has been a crazy year for most of us in the industry.     Many are looking or found new jobs as annual reviews became survivalist experiences as working in fear became the new norm. Of course, ...(read more)
Jan 03 10:19:16 pm GMT / Thoughts from the raised floor. Lewis Curtis Blog site»

Obama plays up 3D printing's military applications under new manufacturing plans

— 3D printing has been attracting more attention in recent months as a tool to create gadgets, toys and miniature works of art. Now President Barack Obama thinks it can also play a role in strengthening the military and America's sagging manufacturing industry.
Jan 01 04:00:00 am GMT / Data center news from Network World Fusion»