Could HP Swoop In to Buy Sybase over SAP
This deal would make a lot of sense for HP, which needs a database presence and could stand Sybase’s mobile capabilities now that HP owns Palm. If HP and/or Oracle does step in, this will get very...
View ArticleSybase Unveils Mobility Platform: Servers, Applications, Services
I’m not entirely sure how Sybase’s mobile platform functions, but I do suspect that demand is high for mobile enterprise apps. SAP might want the analytics, but the mobile platform could be a pleasant...
View ArticleRogue Devices: The Consumer Influence on Enterprise Mobility, Part 1
More than ever before, businesses need strategies that convert personal consumer devices into enterprise-worthy work tools.
View ArticleTransient Apps: The Consumer Influence on Enterprise Mobility, Part 2
In the second of a two-part series on enterprise mobility, we examine strategies IT can adopt to usher an enterprise app deluge into the workplace.
View ArticleReport: U.S. Mobile Venture Capital Investment, Q2 2010
In this report, we take a look at how economic turmoil and emerging technologies impacted mobile investments in the second quarter.
View ArticleMobile Operators’ Strategies for Connected Devices
Carriers’ success in the next wave of mobile will depend on their ability to build services for a host of connected devices that aren’t smartphones.
View ArticleSAP, Sybase Go Mobile App Happy, Enterprise Style
No surprise here, but this wave of new apps underscores how SAP is moving aggressively to serve the mobile enterprise a year after the acquisition of Sybase. Link www.zdnet.com
View ArticleThe future of mobile: a segment analysis by GigaOM Pro
What does the next era of mobility hold? This research presents the trends, companies and challenges that will shape the next several years.
View ArticleInfrastructure Q4: Big data gets bigger and SaaS startups shine
Hadoop led the big data business while VC money flowed to companies offering SaaS products.
View ArticleThe converged-mobile-messaging market: analysis and forecast
Successful carriers will embrace new IP-based messaging services and use them to extend value to customers.
View ArticleUnderstanding the SAP cloud strategy — or lack thereof
SAP has been the darling of enterprise software for many years, and dependence on it continues to this day. However, since the emergence of the SaaS space more than 10 years ago, and with the current...
View ArticleResearch: Report: U.S. Mobile Venture Capital Investment, Q2 2010
The majority of startups funded are headquartered in Massachusetts, New York and California, with the latter attracting the greatest amount of capital. Venture capital investment in the mobile and...
View ArticleGigaom: Reducing Data Latency Leads to Faster Decisions
Estimates say that 90 percent of all data was created in the last two years alone. That staggering figure can lead to analysis paralysis for some organizations, but those that can…
View ArticlepaidContent: Graphic: The Osama Bin Laden Effect In Mobile
You've seen the stories about how Twitter was used to break the news on Osama bin Laden's death, and the huge effect the event has had on In… You've seen the…
View ArticleGigaom: So much Hadoop in so many places
Save for Hortonworks' foray into the product space, none of today's myriad Hadoop announcements are particularly earth-shaking, but they're very meaningful when taken as a whole. They're part of a larger…
View ArticleResearch: Infrastructure Q4: Big data gets bigger and SaaS startups shine
Continuing a yearlong trend, the fourth quarter in big IT was all about big data, and Hadoop in particular. At this point, it seems as if every database, business intelligence and…
View ArticleGigaom: SAP to Oracle: “I will drink your milkshake”
After years of beating around the bush, SAP declares that it is a database company and will take on the biggest kid on the block. It's about time. It's funding startups…
View ArticleGigaom: New-look database startup NuoDB gets $10M to scale up and out
NuoDB has $10 million in Series B funding led by Morgenthaler Ventures and adds database pioneer Gary Morgenthaler to its board. The company will use the funding to widen the beta…
View ArticleResearch: The converged-mobile-messaging market: analysis and forecast
Over-the-top (OTT) messaging applications have upended the mobile operators’ highly profitable short messaging services (SMS) business. The traditional mobile-messaging value chain is changing as...
View ArticleGigaom: Is a database bloodbath on the horizon? Mitchell Kertzman doesn’t...
In this week's Structure Show, Mitchell Kertzman -- former Sybase CEO and current managing director at Hummer Winblad -- says there's lots of room for databases outside the Oracle price umbrella…
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