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The bulls are running for three tech giants: Oracle, due to its cloud business growth, Salesforce, thanks to numerous big deals, and Workday, with sales growing to Fortune 500 clients, are all on a roll, say analysts at Technology Business Research. Here’s a breakdown of their views: Oracle ever more bullish on its ability to dominate all cloud layers Meaghan McGrath points out: “Oracle notes great SaaS execution, but hones in on expected IaaS dominance” Oracle’s recent FY3Q17 earnings call piled on the proof points that Oracle’s cloud business is here to stay. With NetSuite fully impacting the quarter,...

Mobile World Congress 2017 is underway with many of the world’s top technology companies, leaders and entrepreneurs on hand at the event in Spain to talk about the best and latest emerging high tech, from Internet of Things and “smartness everywhere” to enhancing mobile video, 5G, the coming of age – and risks – of data, and the “augmented customer.”  [VIDEO: Watch a recap of Day One at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyYPtOKd01s ] Analysts at consulting firm Ovum offer their views on what they see as the top six trends to watch: The rise of the power and profit of content Content...

CHAPEL HILL – In a rapid-fire series of breakthroughs in just under a year, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have made another stunning advance in the development of an effective treatment for glioblastoma, a common and aggressive brain cancer. The work, published in the Feb. 1 issue of Science Translational Medicine, describes how human stem cells, made from human skin cells, can hunt down and kill human brain cancer, a critical and monumental step toward clinical trials – and real treatment. Last year, the UNC-Chapel Hill team, led by Shawn Hingtgen, an assistant professor...

Are you ready to explore baby’s genome? UNC clinical geneticists are part of a national consortium of researchers studying the ins and outs of genome sequencing for newborn health screenings and beyond. The initiative was announced Tuesday. When you have a baby, a nurse or a phlebotomist performs a heel stick to take a few drops of blood from your infant and sends it off to a state lab for a battery of tests. Most of the time, you never hear about the results because your child is fortunate enough to not have a rare disease, such as cystic...

​Customers are increasingly turning from legacy data center technologies to hyperconverged platforms to shift IT from a cost center to an enabler of business productivity, according to Technology Business Research’s most recent Hyperconverged Platforms Customer Research report. Customers’ desire to deploy a broad range of workloads, coupled with ongoing increases to their overall satisfaction, leads TBR to project the hyperconverged platforms market will grow 53.1% to $7.2 billion by 2020. However, vendors must manage emerging pain points around time to deployment, overall cost-effectiveness and scalability with refined up-front vision matching, as well as partner-supported platform and services innovation. VIDEO:...

Smartphones are everywhere, and millions of families contain their monthly costs by using a family subscription plan. What most of them don’t realize is that they are part of a bundling of consumers that is new and not completely understood. “We’re used to bundling of products,” said Preyas Desai, a professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. “Almost every fast food place offers a combo of a burger, a drink and some fries. Sometimes you buy one product and get another product packed with it. But bundling of consumers is still quite unusual, and family cellphone subscription plans...