IBM said it has inked a deal to buy out Emptoris, a Burlington, Mass.-based developer of software that helps businesses improve the efficiency of their procurement and supply chain operations through the application on business analytics tools. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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IBM Acquires Emptoris Analytics
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Network Computing’s 2012 Geek Gift Guide
Network Computing’s staff has put together their list of the top gadgets and apps that will appeal to the hardcore IT geeks on your gift list.
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Roll Your Own Interference Signatures With AirMagnet
As anyone who has an understanding of Wi-Fi will tell you, interference is the one threat to the WLAN that you can’t really do much to prevent from a configuration standpoint. When interference does show up, accurate classification and remediation can be the key to client success or frustration. Fluke Networks has just freshened up its AirMagnet Spectrum XT analysis tool as a leading weapon in the war on interference.
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Apple Retools iAd, But Is it Enough?
Apple’s mobile ad platform, iAd, has been faltering, and losing market share. Apple is introducing some changes designed to make iAd more competitive, and regain some momentum, but it might not be enough.
Apple has a lucrative and valuable mobile audience with its strong position in the smartphone market with the iPhone, and virtual monopoly of tablets with the iPad. The dominance of iOS as a mobile platform gives Apple some leverage in mobile advertising.
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Year In Review: Disk-y Business
The good news is that storage costs continue to drop, with Q3 disk capacity shipments up 30.7% year over year, while vendor revenues only increased 8.5%, meaning enterprises can buy more storage for less money. The bad news is that information volumes are growing at a minimum rate of 59% annually, so that even with the cost per byte dropping rapidly, falling prices can’t keep pace with increasing storage demands.
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The Cable Conundrum Continues – Vendors Respond
After my initial adventures with 10 gigabit Ethernet cabling, as recounted in The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Cable Conundrum, I realized I needed to research this matter further. I put together a few simple questions about 10 gigabit Ethernet connection technologies and sent them to some leading vendors to see what challenges a system administrator building a multi-vendor network would face in the real world.
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Microsoft Is Going All-In with iOS
Microsoft appears to be fully embracing iOS with a slew of new apps including SkyDrive, Xbox Live, OneNote for iPad, and even an iOS app version of Kinectimals, the popular Xbox 360 Kinect children’s’ game. It’s about time.
It has been a very busy week for Microsoft on the iOS front. Yesterday it rolled out a new and improved OneNote app for the iPhone, along with a dedicated iPad version. OneNote is one of the more popular Microsoft products, and it is a great tool for taking notes and organizing projects.
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Hitachi Boosts Private Cloud Storage Gateway
Hitachi Data Systems announced on Wednesday that it has added new capabilities to its Hitachi Data Ingestor private cloud gateway that lets customers share data among themselves, migrate data between NAS devices and file servers to the Hitachi Content Platform, and restore previously deleted files.
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BYOD – Bring Your Own Disaster
In keeping with the tradition of the last 3 to 5 years, 2012 is being touted by analysts and vendors alike as ‘The Year for VDI’. This year there is a slightly new twist to the hype and marketing, and that’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD.) It’s a simple concept, employees own devices that they like to use and are most productive on, IT should support the apps and services used to run those businesses on the employee’s devices.
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Big Data A Big Pain In The Network
A new study reports that datacenter-to-datacenter connectivity is a ‘silent killer’ for big data deployments, according to Infineta Systems, a provider of WAN optimization systems for ‘big traffic’, with a vested interest in big data networking. The study, conducted by Infineta in collaboration with Internet Research Group (IRG), examines the intersection of big data and the enterprise WAN, and states that the WAN infrastructure is stretched to the breaking point.
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