IBM cornering the cloud patent market
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Cloudfinger

Just like Goldfinger attempted to corner the supply of Gold, it seems that Big Blue is attempting the same thing with cloud patents. 

Intel does rather well in Q2 2015
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But PC numbers still slide

The maker of chips and bits, Intel is doing better than the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street expected.

IBM adds Tesla GPU in cloud
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Nvidia Tesla K80 gets a job with the suits

Biggish Blue has added an option for its SoftLayer product which adds Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU acceleration in the cloud

Oracle experiences profit plummet
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Falling through the cloud

The cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street ran screaming from the toilets after it was announced that industry bellwether Oracle had done much worse than anyone had expected.

Cloud based 4K years away says Nvidia
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Can't get the wood 

Anyone expecting 4K streaming off the cloud any time soon will be plumb out of luck according to Nvidia's CEO.

Waiting for Hadoop could be waiting for Godot
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Gartner warns

Gartner has said that Big Data framework Hadoop will not make any serious impact for at least two years.

Amazon books profit on the cloud
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Web Services jump by 50 per cent

Amazon's first-quarter revenue grew thanks to better sales in the US and its cloud-computing services unit increasing sales by 50 per cent.

Intel figures confirm PC slowdown
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Thank the gods for the datacentre

Chipzilla's financial figures confirm that PC sales have continues to slide after a brief recovery after the death of Windows XP.

Biggish Blue invests in cloudy internet of stuff
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Things ain't wot they used to be

The ever shrinking Big Blue has said it will invest $3 billion over the next four years in a new 'Internet of Things" unit, aiming to sell its expertise in gathering and making sense of the surge in real-time data that the Internet of Stuff will generate.

HP comes up with shedloads more storage
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Because there is nothing more exciting

HP has used its Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas to lift the kimono on shedloads of storage gear.