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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. March 2010: Apotheker says he wants to transform HP from a hardware producer to a software and services provider. November 2012: HP takes an $8.8 billion or $11.7

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A VMworld 2012 Wrap-Up

Scott Lowe

Now that a week or so has passed, I thought I’d post a quick “link review” of VMworld 2012. Here are some links: Rick Scherer: VMworld 2012 San Francisco – Live Blogging. Here are some links: Rick Scherer: VMworld 2012 San Francisco – Live Blogging. Scott Lowe: VMworld 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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Google’s next Pixels will reportedly switch to a custom in-house GS101 processor

The Verge

Apple has long touted its tightly integrated software and hardware stack as a key part of how its iPhones, iPads, and now, its Mac computers are able to run so well — a key part of which is the company’s custom-designed A-series and M-series chips. A Google-designed GS101 chip is an intriguing idea.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. After the Free Usage Tier, you can run Amazon RDS for SQL Server under two different licensing models - "License Included" and Microsoft License Mobility.

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How Big is the Hosted Desktop (DaaS) Market - Part 1

Fountainhead

This environment is also traditionally run locally on your personal hardware (laptop, desktop, etc.). But the inhibitors revolved around two main areas: Physics and the more mundane aspect of licensing. While the licensing aspect of a 3rd-party owning desktop licenses has been solved-for, it took longer to work around Nature.

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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization

Scott Lowe

Devices first started as tightly-coupled hardware and software solutions. The DPDK is BSD licensed and source code is available from Intel. Second, DPDK offers SR-IOV support and allows L2 switching in hardware on Intel’s network interface cards (estimated to be 5-6x more performant than the soft switch).

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

in Big Data Now: 2012 Edition by O’Reilly Media, and touches on the three primary characteristics of data [1]: Volume: The size of your data. When including the cost of software, hardware, and licensing/support, the cost per terabyte (TB) of an MPP system is estimated at tens of thousands of dollars [4]. October 2012.

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