According to industry commentator James Taylor, “Analytics simplify data to amplify its value”. The problem is that data today for …
Nokia-Microsoft: is this the path to success or continued failure?
The broad Nokia-Microsoft partnership announced yesterday in which the Windows Phone operating system would run on Nokia smartphones sounds like …
SAP-Sybase: What to expect in the first 90 days
Now that SAP’s roughly US$6 billion acquisition of Sybase has gained clearance from European regulators, it may not be long …
Overpowering Pirates
Enterprises across the Middle East risk damaging their businesses through the use of pirated software, with an estimated two-thirds of …
RackSpace's OpenStack targets cloud lock-in
Rackspace’s contribution of code to a new open-source project called OpenStack could help establish a counterweight to larger and proprietary …
Virtualisation's dirty little secrets
THE SHEER NUMBER OF POTENTIAL missteps has Doug Dineley, executive editor of the InfoWorld Test Center (one of CPI’s US …
Oracle gearing up for more purchases
Ever-acquisitive Oracle apparently has no immediate plans to stop buying up companies, as indicated by a US$3.25 billion debt issue …