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HP closes EDS purchase; Outlines services exec line-up

HP on Tuesday said it completed its $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS and announced its management team for its services unit. With the EDS purchase, HP's services business will have annual revenue of more than $38 billion and 210,000 employees. Now the integration begins. HP CEO Mark...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Senior Vice President, Outsourcing, Data Centers, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's out

On February 14, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization affecting many of its divisions. As with any Microsoft early-year reorg -- which typically occur after the company's fiscal mid-year reviews -- there are winners and losers. Check out my slideshow of who's in and who's out as a...

Tags: Mobile, VP, Vice President, Microsoft Corp., Senior Vice President, Corporate, Vehghte, Lees, Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Photos: Apple unveils new iMacs, apps

CEO Steve Jobs shows off new iMacs and updates to Apple's multimedia and productivity software Tuesday.Three new iMacs were unveiled at an event held Tuesday at Apple''s Cupertino, Calif., headquarters. There will be two 20-inch iMacs with different specifications, and a more expensive 24-inch model. The 20-inch systems will cost...

Tags: Desktops, photograph, Apple iMac, new iMac, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs, Apple iLife, GarageBand, Apple iPhoto, Apple iWeb, Apple iDVD, movie, display, specification, soundtrack, rock, jack, home video, aluminum, video clip, FireWire, Intel Core 2 Duo, chief operating officer, batte

Image galleries 2007-08-07

The future of movies

At a Churchill Club event on July 27, a group of movie industry executives discussed the emerging digital age of cinema. Issues surfaced included the changing relationships between studios, filmmakers, and the audience, as well as major trends and new business models driving the future of cinema. The panelists...

Tags: Cinema, Movie, Senior Vice President, Podcasts, Strategy, Internet, Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2006-08-08

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Salesforce demos Service Cloud 2

At Dreamforce Global Gathering 2009 in San Francisco, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Kraig Swensrud, senior vice president of product marketing, show attendees the company's new customer service software, Service Cloud 2. The new tool helps businesses connect their traditional call center technologies with social media applications through a cloud...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Customer Service, Social Media, Product Marketing, Cloud Computing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Force Management, Virtualization, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Hardware, Service Cloud 2, Marc Benioff, Salesforce

Videos 2009-11-18

SAP regaining its mojo?

Earlier today at SAP TechEd Vienna, Jim Hageman Snabe, SAP senior vice president in charge of products said: "Business ByDesign will be multi-tenant." It was almost a throw away line in a broad conversation discussing SAP's slow conversion to all things SaaS and cloud computing. I...

Tags: Blade, SAP AG, Operational Planning, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Roi/Tco, Servers, Business Operations, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Microsoft demos Twitter feeds in Bing

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yusuf Mehdi, a senior vice president at Microsoft, previews Twitter integration with Bing search results. One of the interesting features he introduces is "hottest topics." He explains that the Bing-Twitter search will aggregate information around the most popular links shared on any...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-21

Microsoft demos Twitter feeds in Bing

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yusuf Mehdi, a senior vice president at Microsoft, previews Twitter integration with Bing search results. One of the interesting features he introduces is "hottest topics." He explains that the Bing-Twitter search will aggregate information around the most popular links shared on...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Search, Internet, Bing, Twitter

Videos 2009-10-21

Gartner: 'Worst year ever' for IT spending

At the Gartner Symposium/ITExpo 2009 in Orlando, Fla., Peter Sondergaard, a senior vice president of research at Gartner, says 2009 was the worst spending cycle ever. He adds that Silicon Valley will no longer be in charge of the rebound and emerging regions will drive IT spending and how it's...

Tags: Gartner Inc., IT-spending, Gartner

Videos 2009-10-19

IBM's Moffat put on leave after insider trading scandal

IBM has put Bob Moffat, senior vice president of its systems and technology group, on a "temporary leave of absence" following an insider trading sting that named him and other technology executives. Big Blue told employees that Moffat is no longer serving as an officer of IBM....

Tags: IBM Corp., Workforce Management, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Wither Silicon Valley? IT will be driven by emerging markets

Gartner is projecting that the "worse year ever" for IT spending---down 6.9 percent in 2009---will be followed up with dead-cat spending bounce in 2010 of a meager 3.3 percent. Does this dead-cat IT spending bounce mean traditional tech power centers---notably Silicon Valley---are no longer in the driver's seat? ...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Emerging Market, IT-spending, Application Roster, Marketing Research, Financial Services, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Two new tomes offer tips to guide your Green IT strategy

Believe it or not, I have a stack of 10 business books on my desk right now, begging to be read and reviewed. Two are pertinent for the loyal Green IT folks in the GreenTech Pastures, so I felt it appropriate to mention them as a scan some of the...

Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-09

Success Story: NaviSite

"In a sense, our IT infrastructure is our product, says Mark Clayman, senior vice president of hosting services for NaviSite. "By building a best-in-class delivery platform—storage, service, networking devices and processes and tools—we can offer a level of technology and expertise that most customers can't easily...

Tags: NaviSite Inc., IBM Corp., Productivity, Networking

White papers 2009-10-08

Cisco doubles down on video conferencing; Acquires Tandberg for $3 billion

Cisco is beefing up its video conferencing arsenal, picking up Tandberg, a Norwegian video conferencing outfit, for $3 billion. In a statement, Cisco said it is acquiring Tandberg to expand its collaboration platform. With the deal, Cisco will bring in Tandberg's network infrastructure and video conferencing equipment...

Tags: Video Conferencing, Cisco Systems Inc., Tandberg, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-01

Responding to Today's Demands with a Dynamic Infrastructure

As the world becomes more instrumented, intelligent, and interconnected, the demands on your infrastructure continue to grow. IBM continues to chart a strategy to help you deliver a new kind of infrastructure. One that helps you reduce costs, manage risks and improve service. A dynamic infrastructure — designed for a...

Tags: Infrastructure, IBM Corp.

Webcasts 2009-10-01

Intel unveils the Net-savvy CE4100

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Eric Kim, senior vice president at Intel, revealed a new Atom-based CE4100 chip. It is designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players, and advanced set-top boxes by integrating different processors to handle graphics, displays, networking, and video...

Tags: Intel Corp., Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Internet, DVD, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Intel unveils the Net-savvy CE4100

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Eric Kim, senior vice president at Intel, revealed a new Atom-based CE4100 chip. It is designed to bring Internet content and services to digital TVs, DVD players, and advanced set-top boxes by integrating different processors to handle graphics, displays, networking, and video...

Tags: Intel Corp., Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Internet, DVD, Media Players, Consumer Electronics, Corporate Communications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, CE4100, Interl Developer Forum, Atom, Eric Kim

Videos 2009-09-24

IBM Helping Lay Enhanced Collaboration Foundations for US Bank

Here's an interesting collaboration case history: US Bank, the 6th largest bank in the United States, are rationalizing around IBM's Lotus Notes 8.5, Quickr, and Sametime for their 58,000 employees. This week I spoke first with Bob Picciano, general manager of IBM Lotus...

Tags: Bank, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Corp., Collaboration System, Groupware, Financial Services, Collaboration, E-mail Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-09-18

Database Virtualization Using Clusters: Cheaper, Easier, Faster, Better

Learn how a virtualization approach that is built into the database can create deployment flexibility for better service levels, shift workloads for less downtime, and free-up valuable DBA resources to focus on high-value activities. Guest speakers: Carl Olofson, Research Vice President for IDC ...

Tags: Sybase Inc., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Webcasts 2009-09-17