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  • RIM Investors Give Thumbs Down On New CEO

    January 24, 2012 11:45 AM | By Ed Hansberry

    Stock drops after new chief Thorsten Heins said he'll stay the course laid out by his predecessors.

  • Data Storage Vs. Information Management

    April 01, 2011 04:44 PM | By Kurt Marko

    A recent reader response to my State of Storage 2011 report got me thinking about the difference between data and information, or, more generally between technology itself and the ways we creatively use it to solve problems. State of Storage, as these annual reviews are wont to do, focused on trends in storage technology. My correspondent, however, called me for not discussing information management-one way we apply tech to improve how we do business. "I was underwhelmed with the article in that it only focused on the technology platform components of storage and was silent on how we should organize the data we store," he wrote. "In an old-world analogy, it would be like the Library of Congress worrying about the number of shelves they build and the type of wood to build the shelves."

  • You're Invited To Take InformationWeek Analytics' Enterprise 2.0 Survey

    October 31, 2010 08:27 PM | By Alexander Wolfe

    Do you E2.0? If so, I need your help. InformationWeek Analytics is conducting a survey to determine what's important to you when you're choosing Enterprise 2.0 applications, and how vendors stack up against a list of criteria rating the performance, applicability, cost, and reliability of their software.

  • Why Steve Jobs Loves Optimized Systems

    October 19, 2010 01:56 PM | By Bob Evans

    While much of the attention today surrounding highly engineered and optimized systems centers on big, powerful machines used in data warehousing and OLTP, Apple CEO Steve Jobs reminded the world in yesterday's earnings call that Apple's iPhones, iPods, iPads and Macs have always embodied that model: "And this results in an incredible product at a great price."

  • Jack Welch Says HP Board Is Dysfunctional

    October 05, 2010 02:50 PM | By Bob Evans

    Admitting he doesn't understand all the "back room dynamics," management guru Jack Welch says Mark Hurd's dismissal was a result of tensions between Hurd and the HP board, which Welch said "appears to be somewhat dysfunctional." Read on for the transcript from Welch's appearance on Bloomberg Television's "In the Loop."

  • HP CEO Apotheker Sized Up By His SAP Successor

    October 01, 2010 09:19 AM | By Bob Evans

    When the stunning news came in Thursday night that Hewlett-Packard had picked long-time software executive and former SAP CEO Leo Apotheker to lead the $130 billion IT company, I was eager to get the reaction from one of the co-CEOs who replaced Apotheker 8 months ago after he resigned from SAP. Here's what SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott had to say.

  • HP Completes Cisco Rip And Replace In 6 Data Centers

    September 27, 2010 11:57 AM | By Bob Evans

    Proclaiming its six data centers are now "Cisco-free," Hewlett-Packard said its six totally revamped data centers are running the $130-billion company's operations with networking technologies supplied exclusively by HP Networking.

  • IBM's Acquisition List: Four Potential Candidates

    September 27, 2010 08:49 AM | By Bob Evans

    Noting that IBM has snapped up four Massachusetts companies in the past three months, the Boston Globe speculates on the identities of the next four takeover candidates. After all, an IBM exec says in the article that his company is always on the hunt.

  • AMD Apparently Absent From Oracle Blade Server Plans

    September 23, 2010 11:18 AM | By Alexander Wolfe

    Sans any official word from Oracle, the sun has seemingly set on the use of AMD Opteron processors in the company's Sun Servers. Even though Oracle won't comment on the issue, word has been circulating since spring, when I posted Oracle Seen Axing AMD Opteron On Sun Servers. Recently, I received an e-mail from an Oracle customer, which seems to provide corroboration that AMD is done on Sun.

  • Enterprise 2.0 Watch: Salesforce.com Upgrades Chatter

    September 22, 2010 10:01 AM | By Alexander Wolfe

    Another salvo in the battle for social enterprise market- and mindshare is being fired on Wednesday, when Salesforce.com takes the stage at Oracle OpenWorld to unveil what it's calling a major upgrade to its Chatter collaboration tool.

  • After Larry Ellison's Sucker Punch, Red Hat Swings Back

    September 22, 2010 08:44 AM | By Bob Evans

    Stung by Larry Ellison's pointed public criticism of its unacceptably slow incorporation of bug fixes and enhancements, Red Hat has lashed back at the Oracle CEO by saying Red Hat's "commitment is deep and lasting, not fireworks and hyperbole followed by a huge invoice and vendor lock-in." Oh, can't we all just get along?!?
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