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EMC CEO Joe Tucci Makes His Case For Hybrid Cloud Era
at Investor's Business Daily - Wed Apr 09, 3:06PM CDT
EMC and its spinoff, VMware, along with their progeny called Pivotal, make a formidable trio as IT firms aim to survive and thrive in the cloud computing era. The Internet cloud proffers a new kind of competition. Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and...
The Path to Success Is Laid Out for Intel
William Alder, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Apr 09, 1:00PM CDT
Investor confidence in Intel is growing. The stock is up 10% from early February and has risen 30% since April 3, 2013. Part of this confidence comes from the belief that the decline of PC sales is bottoming out. There is also upside to the...
Dow Today: Intel (INTC) Lower
at The Street - Wed Apr 09, 1:00PM CDT
Holding back the Dow today is Intel (Nasdaq: INTC ), which is lagging the broader Dow index with an 11-cent decline (-0.4%) bringing the stock to $26.80.
64 Is Qualcomm's Magic Number: Here's Why They're a Buy
Subhadeep Ghose, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Apr 09, 12:00PM CDT
Qualcomm , the planet's leading manufacturer of smartphone chips, recently announced the launch of two high-end versions of its iconic Snapdragon processor as part of an ongoing effort to stay ahead of the competition and tighten its existing...
Bad Press Aside, Target Has Upside Potential
at The Street - Wed Apr 09, 11:51AM CDT
Whenever Target's dividend yield closes in on 3%, investors forget about the bad press and start buying.
2 Dow Jones Stocks That Could Benefit From the End of Windows XP
Sam Mattera, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Apr 09, 10:30AM CDT
Two of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 's tech components, Microsoft and Intel , could get a boost from the end of Windows XP. Microsoft officially ended support for the operating system on Tuesday, and while this was far from a surprise,...
How Apple's iWatch Can Help Wearables
at The Street - Wed Apr 09, 9:33AM CDT
Wearable devices are supposed to be the next big thing out of technology, yet early adoption so far has been slow. The same issue happened with tablets, MP3 players, and the smartphone, until one company came in and changed everything. Who's that?...
Will Intel's Braswell Destroy AMD's PC Business?
Ashraf Eassa, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Wed Apr 09, 9:15AM CDT
The plain and simple fact is that Advanced Micro Devices , the last player standing in the fight against Intel for Windows PC processor dominance, has been in a pretty rough spot. The high end of the PC chip market,...
Is Intel This Year's IBM?
at The Street - Wed Apr 09, 8:53AM CDT
Financial engineering can only take Intel so far.
McAfee Defines Strategy for Securing the Internet of Things
Business Wire - Wed Apr 09, 7:02AM CDT
McAfee, part of Intel Security, today outlined its strategy for enabling the secure Internet of Things. Utilizing McAfee's history of securing the most demanding digital environments, McAfee is building and delivering future-focused security solutions that are essential to unleashing the transformative power of a world in which every device is connected.
IT Stocks: Information Technology Offers Growth and Dividends
Selena Maranjian, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Tue Apr 08, 4:16PM CDT
Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient way to invest in sectors or niches that interest you. If you'd like to add some IT stocks to your portfolio but don't have the time or expertise to hand-pick a few, the Vanguard Information Technology ETF ...
Qualcomm Enhances Snapdragon Processors - Analyst Blog
Zacks Equity Research - Zacks Investment Research - Tue Apr 08, 1:50PM CDT
Qualcomm Incorporated revealed that it is working toward improving the performance of its high-end Snapdragon processors.
The Decline in Chip Stocks Offers a Buying Opportunity
Joseph Gacinga, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Tue Apr 08, 11:45AM CDT
Shares of leading chip manufacturers have been selling off after the Semiconductor Industry Association released a mixed report for February. Worldwide chip sales for the month came in at 25.9%, which represented 11.4% year-over-year growth, but...
Global Microserver (Hardware, Application software, Operating System) Market Report 2013 - 2019
M2 - Tue Apr 08, 11:00AM CDT
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/t64fmg/microserver) has announced the addition of the "Microserver Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019" report to their offering. The total value for global market microserver stood at USD 1,059.69 million in 2012 and it is estimated that the market would reach a size of USD 30,205.56 million by 2019. It is estimated that the market would experience growth at a CAGR of 43.4% in terms of revenue during the period from 2013 to 2019. Further, it has been estimated that a total of 2,137.92 thousand units of microserver would be shipped in 2019. The growth in demand for microservers is driven by the growing demand for power efficient, high density and low cost server ecosystems around data center and cloud. Microservers also offer better overall cost-performance, higher reliability in system-on-chip (SoC)-based implementations and overall reduction in total cost of ownership due to better self-management and are expected to define future around data center and cloud. It is expected that total cloud traffic would grow at a CAGR of 29.9% over the period 2013 to 2019 and it is expected to drive the growth in adoption of microservers. In addition, growing clout for microservers among dedicated, single application, high-scale customers for very low power server designs is expected to boost the demand in coming future as these have the required expertise and willingness to rewrite old software that run on legacy software and optimize it for microservers. Microservers are optimized for workload such as static simple content delivery node, web servers, distributed memory caching, cold data storage; entry dedicated hosting and entry level security appliances and switches. It is expected that microserver market would grow over the coming years owing to the fact that end-users can utilize this technology to deploy systems that offer better cost-performance at lower total cost of ownership. End-users would also benefit from its reliability, reduced power and space requirements, and low cost of entry offered by microserver platforms. Microserver Market Segmentation Processor Type - Intel - ARM - AMD - Others (Tilera, Power, MIPS) Components - Hardware - Application software - Operating system Application - Data center - Cloud Key Topics Covered: - Preface - Executive summary - Microserver Market Analysis - Microserver Market Analysis, By Processor Type 2013 - 2019 - Microserver Market Analysis, By Components 2013 - 2019 - Microserver Market Analysis, By Application2013 - 2019 - Microserver Market Analysis, By End-user 2013 - 2019 - Microserver Market Analysis, By Region 2013 - 2019 - Company Profiles - ARM Ltd. - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) - Dell, Inc. - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) - Intel Corporation - Marvell Technology Group Ltd. - MiTAC International Corporation - Penguin Computing, Inc. - Quanta QCT - Tilera Corporation For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/t6...icroserver
FireEye Shares Have Been Clobbered -- Is It a Buy Yet?
David Eller, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Tue Apr 08, 10:15AM CDT
Shares of FireEye have dropped as much as 49% since reaching a peak of $97.35 on March 5. Despite the sell-off, industry fundamentals remain very good, and the integration with Mandiant appears to be progressing well as the company separates...
Will the Dow Downturn Continue? Caterpillar, Intel Rise on Emerging-Market Bounce
Dan Caplinger, The Motley Fool - Motley Fool - Tue Apr 08, 10:00AM CDT
U.S. investors are clearly going through a crisis of confidence, as the Dow Jones Industrials opened Tuesday to their third-straight daily decline. While the Dow managed to crawl four points into the green  as of 11 a.m. EDT, stocks in emerging...
Dow Today: Intel (INTC) Higher
at The Street - Tue Apr 08, 10:00AM CDT
The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Intel (Nasdaq: INTC ), which is sporting a 39-cent gain (+1.5%) bringing the stock to $26.88.