August 4, 2011
Six questions Cisco needs to answer on August 10
The VAR Guy
The VAR Guy looks at the questions that remain after the company’s job cuts.
“It’s safe to say the earnings call will be filled with strategic updates — especially as Cisco this month cuts 6,500 employees from its payroll. CEO John Chambers has publicly stated that Cisco will streamline its business, become more nimble and regain its focus.”
Microsoft Windows Azure gets cloud storage analytics
Talkin’ Cloud
Matthew Weinberger reports on the offering.
“Users can also set retention policies, to make sure the logs and metrics are deleted after a certain date for management’s sake. And both logs and metrics are retrievable from any application that can make and receive HTTP/HTTPS requests.”
Google and Microsoft trade blows in public over patents
ZDNet
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports on strong words from both sides.
“Yesterday Google’s SVP and chief legal officer, David Drummond published a blog post calling attention to how Android rivals are using ‘bogus patents’ to attack the mobile OS. It’s a strongly-worded attack, claiming that rivals are carrying out ‘a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents.’ To do this these companies are ‘banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents.”