Microsoft disclosed in a blog post Monday that Asus, Dell, Lenovo and Samsung will be selling ARM-based Windows RT widgets alongside Microsoft’s own Surface tablets, the software giant’s first foray into computers.
It’s the first time Microsoft has named its RT OEMs.
Toshiba is missing from the list because it couldn’t get some unidentified parts in time for launch. It will be going with more conventional Windows 8 x86-based machines, according to Bloomberg.
Juniper Networks o Tuesday today announced that Turkish Airlines, Turkey’s national airline with over 200 global locations, has upgraded its global network and standardized on Juniper Networks’ integrated portfolio of software, switching, security and routing products. Turkish Airlines’ new network has simplified and centralized the airline’s infrastructure, delivering an estimated cost savings of approximately $9.5 million in five years in employee resources, $6 million in telecommunication costs and $3.1 million in support services.
A fascinating global ocean studies initiative helps best define some of the IT superlatives around big data, cloud computing, and middleware integration capabilities.
All that is changing as the Administration obliges federal departments to
look to Cloud computing to cut costs and solve many of the problems that have
plagued IT deployment for decades. The problem, however, is how do federal IT
managers and those controlling the budgets go about deciding what is best for
them.
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Here is our latest white paper, a document co-authored by myself and one of our Technology Strategy Board members Alan Gin, CEO of ZeroNines. Download: Always On Digital Government (15-page PDF) Always On Cloud Architecture We were inspired to write this paper following the recent data centre outage in Calgary a few weeks back. The impact was severe, […]
Apple is apparently more reasonable than it lets on.
Back in 2010 it offered Samsung a license. Apple estimates that it might have cost Samsung $288 million back then. Now it’s asking $2.5 billion and that’s just in the current case in California.
FOSS Patents calls it “the most spectacular revelation of the ongoing trial.”
Ben Kepes and I had a load of fun last year, helping the team at VentureBeat put on their inaugural cloud computing event, CloudBeat. Clearly we did something right whilst having fun, as they’ve invited us back to reprise our content advising/ programme shaping role again this year. Right at the end of November, we’ll once again be doing what we can to assemble a stellar cast of cloud companies and their customers at the Sofitel in Redwood City, just south of San Francisco. As the blurb states, Unlike other cloud conferences, CloudBeat brings IT executives who use cloud technologies onto the same stage as the companies making those technologies. It’s a rare chance to learn what really works, who’s buying what, and where the industry is going. Ben and I both feel that there’s a real need to ensure that the stories of customer success (and failure) get heard, instead of just having the cloud companies tell us how wonderful they’re going to make the future. How do the adopters of cloud solutions have to change? What can they do that they couldn’t achieve with other approaches? Is it about saving money, or going green, or being agile, or […]
Cloud pioneer Salesforce.com reportedly got its biggest contract ever, bigger than its State Farm deal, which was valued at $140 million, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Mark Murphy.
Who it is is a mystery. Forbes thinks it’s a large tech company.
IBM has sent up its first research lab in Africa. That makes an even dozen labs worldwide. The new one’s in Nairobi in Kenya. It should host 50 researchers in five years.
IBM didn’t say how much it’s investing but the government of Kenya is putting in $2 million a year for five years for a share in the copyrights.
After buying Motorola Mobility and its 17,000 patents for $12.5 billion in May, Google is going to try to make the place profitable, something that has eluded it for 14 of the last 16 quarters.