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On-premise vendors continue to struggle in transitioning their products to a
Software as a Service (SaaS) model according to Brian Sommer at ZDNet. In
his latest blog, “The Expanding Gap Between On-Premise and SaaS Solutions
he outlines some of the issues, namely, multitenancy, platform, and solution
integration with SaaS.
For many of you, as readers of the innovation blog on Ulitzer, you recognize
that what is afoot is nothing less than a complete economic business model,
and cultural shift, in service delivery innovation – not an easy transition
for any company, and even less so for the on-premise providers that
understand what is at stake here.
In the meantime, are you wondering how to get your business and applications
ready for the cloud? If so, you will want to take a look at ServiceMesh –
a cloud migration factory.
Last week, I had t... (more)
In a relatively rare headhunting raid, AMD has hired Donald Newell, one of
Intel's own, to run its server chip roadmap and platform design programs as
CTO of its server unit.
Newell was previously senior principle engineer heading the System-on-Chip
(SoC) and datacenter networking architecture groups at Intel Labs. At Intel
for 16 years, he holds more than 20 patents.
In his new job, Newell will be responsible for the concept and definition of
AMD's long-term server roadmap and lead multiple worldwide teams. He reports
to Rick Bergman, general manager of AMD's Products Group, wh... (more)
In the spirit of David and the bone-crushing giant Goliath, ARM has gotten
itself a Smooth-Stone to hurl at Intel, hoping to at least put out its eye.
Smooth-Stone is a little Austin, Texas start-up that got organized in January
of 2008, apparently on a nickel from ARM and a couple of other angels like
the former head of Intel’s Communications Infrastructure Group Howard Bubb.
It means to turn the ARM chip, loved by cell phone makers, into the kind of
low-cost, ultra-low-power, high-performance server chip capable of the
density that hyper-scale cloud players and huge web server f... (more)
AMD did better than people thought it would in Q2. Even so it barely looks
like number two in a two-horse race.
Revenues were up 40% year-over-year to a record $1.65 billion when it was
expected to come in with $1.55 billion and it would have earned 11 cents a
share, better than the six cents forecast, were it not for write-offs
connected with the spin-off of its factories.
In reality it lost six cents or $43 million, which is a drop in the bucket
compared to previous losses. This time last year it lost $330 million.
Its operating income this time was $125 million and its gross ma... (more)
VXL Instruments announces two new virtualisation-ready laptop thin clients in
conjunction with major laptop manufacturer Lenovo. The 14.1” TL412 comes
with a market-leading three year warranty as standard, while the entry level
11.6” TL100 features a one year warranty that’s upgradeable to three
years.
Competitively priced in line with VXL’s commitment to offer the best value
in thin client, the two new VXL-Lenovo co-branded, Thin ‘ThinkPad’
laptops are available now.
Arun Kumar Bhuwania, VXL’s Chairman commented, “This new collaboration
will maximise benefits for the end user,... (more)
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