Marketing Week Royal Mail to up B2B marketing driveMarketing WeekRoyal Mail is to step up efforts to push its B2B products and services later this year in the wake of a steep decline in revenue from its letters business. It is believed that activity will focus on services such as database management and data …and…
eBay deploys 100TB of flash storageGigaOmIn fact, eBay has deployed a non-trivial 100TB of Nimbus gear. Have we finally reached the inflection point for primary flash storage? Traditionally, flash has been used as a cache layer either within storage arrays or within servers themselves to …eBay backs Flash new boy for storageRegistereBay goes big on…
A COLLECTION of rare stamps described as “the private passion of a self-made man” is to be auctioned in a series of sales in September. Sotheby’s has announced the sale in London of the late Lord Steinberg of Belfast’s stamp collection which it expects to make £4 million. More: continued here
The Guardian The fading genius of the US post officeThe GuardianThe superb post offices of the New Deal era are a monument to America's democratic ethos. Now we're selling off FDR's legacy On 9 June, the General Services Administration threw Modesto's downtown post office onto the auction block. … More: continued here
eBay backs Flash new boy for storageRegisterOut of nowhere, Nimbus, an all-flash array supplier, has beaten incumbents NetApp and 3PAR at eBay, with 12 arrays and 100TB of flash installed to accelerate eBay's server virtualisation work. …eBay goes big on Nimbus all-SSD systemSearch StorageeBay Installs 100 TBs of Nimbus Flash Memory Storage for VirtualizationPR Newswire…
Commission launches inquiry into UK postal serviceTheParliament.comUKIP has reacted angrily to the launch of a commission inquiry into the UK's royal mail and the way it is supported by the British government. The focus of the investigation is into support for the royal mail's pension … More: continued here
Nimbus Data Systems, Inc., the provider of award-winning intelligent solid state storage systems for next-generation datacenters, today announced that eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, has deployed more than 100 terabytes of Nimbus S-Class flash memory to power its VMware virtual server infrastructure. More: continued here
eBay is testing a rental program on Half.com in the books and textbooks categories. The company announced the test in mid-July, at which point the rental program was being shown to 25% of traffic on the site. More: continued here
Cramer's Lightning Round – I'm Worried About General Motors (8/1/11)Seeking AlphaI am a buy, buy, buyer of eBay. I want you to buy some Tuesday morning." Lincoln Electric Holdings (LECO): "…I wil always be a buyer of this one. The stock has come down. I think it is a mistake." General Motors (GM): "I don't…
yARN: eBay Australia needs to get a brainARNnetIt has long been the theory that eBay Australia is a testing ground for any old daft idea its big US parent doesn't want to inflict on its huge marketplace. That may or may not be true, However, the latest move flagged last week is guaranteed to drive…