Cloudera Looks to Business Value as Key to Its Future Growth

Cloudera, focused on Big Data and analytics, held its annual analyst meeting on March 10-11, 2015, in San Francisco. The company, the largest provider of Hadoop-related software worldwide has chosen to focus its energies on highlighting the business side of analytics,...

Why is it so hard to sell technology, nowadays?

As an analyst, I listen to countless sales pitches from every imaginable vendor. Almost without fail, I have to ask the question of the vendor “What is the business proposition/problem that they are trying to solve?” One would think that the answer to this seems...

IBM Verse Launches

IBM Verse reflects the new IBM user-centric design language and principles. Existing IBM Notes and Domino Email customers should consider IBM Verse while others will have to wait.
IBM has a chance of convincing non-IBM email customers to switch to IBM Verse. With the anticipated release of the next generation of Outlook looming and launch of new products such as Inbox by Google, IBM might lose the opportunity to take some customers from Microsoft and Google.

OpenPOWER Foundation Aims to Build New Ecosystem for the Datacenter

The OpenPOWER Summit gave a strong start to the OpenPOWER Foundation’s worldwide efforts to gain wider OpenPOWER deployments. With solid backing from IBM, Google and many others, the ecosystem is officially launched. We’ll be watching, with great interest, to see how it develops – and how customers deploy OpenPOWER in their datacenter infrastructure – in 2015.

IT vendor priorities for the channel – What are your priorities?

The year 2014 was a year full of IT changes – and Neuralytix sees the rate of change accelerating, compared with previous year. It is so fast that it’s outpacing the rate of change that we are seeing in other markets. The IT market moves at lighting speed, because new...