Vendors and Providers

Wearable Tech Offers Promise (and Potential Peril) for the Enterprise

$15B market for “live” SDN by 2018

$30B total potential market for service provider deployments, says ACG

Judge partially dismisses Oracle lawsuit against Solaris support providers

But several other Oracle claims, including for copyright infringement and unfair competition, remain in play

VMware acquires AirWatch to boost mobile device, application management

The company accelerates its client computing push with the addition of AirWatch's tools

Gates talks Microsoft CEO search: Nothing to see, move along

Acknowledges urgency in picking Ballmer's replacement

Verizon: US gov’t made 320,000 requests for customer info in ’13

Law enforcement requests to Verizon far exceed those made to other tech companies

Big Data startup MemSQL raises $35 million

MemSQL was founded by former Facebook engineers, specializes in distributed in-memory database technology

Amazon posted 16,100 IT job ads last year, tops in U.S.

Service firms, tech vendors and Best Buy also among top posters of U.S. IT job ads

AMD slows new Opteron 6300 chips to match workloads

AMDs new Opteron 6300 processors have a slower clock speed to reduce power consumption

How Apple and Pepsi fumbled their 2004 Super Bowl ad play

Preachy Super Bowl XXXVIII campaign to give away 100 million iTunes songs fell 95 million short