8 years ago043Top state officials voted Tuesday to approve the bond issue that is a cornerstone in the plans to finance a significant multi-family housing project in south Reno. The project is expected to begin meeting the demands of a tight rental market, especially for working families and seniors, as the Northern Nevada economy continues to develop...
8 years ago044The advent and exponential growth of Internet connected devices has the potential to change the world – but not always in benign ways.
As everyday objects from our cars to our refrigerators to our thermostats begin to act more and more like smartphones, IoT devices have the potential to automate and simplify many areas of our...
8 years ago050Health Care Service Corp. improved its net loss in 2015, but the Blue Cross and Blue Shield conglomerate continues to hemorrhage money in the Affordable Care Act's nascent marketplaces. HCSC, which owns the Blue Cross and Blue Shield affiliates in Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, lost $1.5 billion on its individual...
8 years ago043Enterprises that think they can escape the clutches of vendor lock-in by shunting their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) operations to the cloud are in for a very rude awakening, according to Gartner Inc.
The research house has just landed a sucker punch with the claim that almost all cloud ERP projects are doomed to fail by 2018,...
8 years ago042Hortonworks Data Platform updates will happen continuously for services like Spark and Hive but just annually for core components
Software stability is a key requirement for large companies, and Hortonworks is taking a big step in that direction with a new release cadence for its enterprise Hadoop software.
Starting with the...
8 years ago058Telecos are still trying to figure out what to do with the cloud
This week as the mobile world has its eyes on Barcelona, Ericsson – a major supplier of equipment for telecommunication providers – has announced a broad-ranging, and slightly vague, partnership with Amazon Web Services.
The pact announced at Mobile World Congress...
8 years ago051Once upon a time in Florida, there was Terremark, an IaaS provider heavily invested in both IaaS and VMware infrastructure. It was tooling along, looking good like many platform providers in the embryonic stage of Cloud-on-the-Hoof (CotH).
The wild and wooly days had Rackspace, Saavis, AWS, and another half-dozen Managed Services...
8 years ago050While the world gets all excited about new applications and the public cloud, enterprises have more pressing concerns.
Interesting news from IBM InterConnect today (Disclusure: IBM contributed to my travel and expenses to attend the event). Big blue is teaming up with VMware in order to give enterprises that use VMware (which, it has...
8 years ago049Companies are increasingly turning to private and hybrid clouds
The cloud market shows no signs of slowing down, with 90% of enterprises planning to maintain or boost spending on cloud computing this year, according to a survey from Washington, D.C.-based research firm Clutch.
The majority of enterprises in the U.S. said they would...
8 years ago046Enterprise Social Solutions GM shares thoughts on Project Toscana, cloud vs. on-premises and more at IBM Connect event
IBM Enterprise Social Solutions GM Jeff Schick emceed the company’s recent Connect conference in Orlando, where Big Blue updated customers and partners on its latest collaboration, mobile and cloud efforts,...
8 years ago042Every year cloud management vendor RightScale runs a survey of cloud adoption. The results are always interesting reading.
This year's RightScale "State of the Cloud" report is, as in previous years, interesting reading. In particular, it is interesting to see subtle changes in the cloud industry makeup with vendors starting to make...
8 years ago038For this month of hearts and flowers, Microsoft gifts you with 13 security bulletins; six are rated critical for RCE.
On February 2016 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released 13 security bulletins, six of which are rated as critical for remote code execution. The rest deal with fixing elevation of privilege, denial of service, and security...