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HP Unveils Two New Cloud Development Services
Just as Dell confirms its buyout amidst a necessary transition to the Services market, Hewlett-Packard announced two SaaS solutions that aim to streamline application development in the enterprise. The first service, HP Agile Manager, is a full-blown platform for companies that apply agile development methodologies in their projects. The cloud-based solution features advanced task management capabilities, ...
How IBM’s Watson Helped Make Big Data More Affordable
Great publicity is not the only return that IBM realized on Watson, the famed AI that showed us humans just how smart a machine can be. The IT vendor has incorporated technologies originally developed for the superhuman into entry level servers designed to make analytics much more practical for SMBs. Big Blue’s new Power Express ...
Piston Cloud Bags $8M, Attracts Cisco with OpenStack Software
Today, OpenStack distributor Piston Cloud announced that it has raised eight million bucks in a second round of funding. Cisco, Data Collective and Swisscom Ventures join Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad and True Ventures as principal investors. Piston Cloud has raised $13 million in capital to date. That’s the sum of this latest $8 million financing, ...
We Know All About Your Love Life. It’s In the Cloud
Yesterday morning McAfee released its “Love, Relationships and Technology” report, a compilation of results from a survey that examined the file sharing habits of American couples. According to the study, 35 percent of Americans plan to send racy photos to their partner via email, text, or social media on Valentine’s Day. What McAfee found more ...
IBM’s Spent Over $16B on Analytics Acquisitions Since 2005
IBM is very ambitious when it comes to Big Data. Since 2005 the technology vendor has acquired 34 analytics companies for a grand total of $16 billion, a number that grew to 35 last week with the acquisition of Star Analytics. Star Analytics is a privately held, Redwood City, Calif-based company that makes process-automation software ...
Amazon Needs More than Cheap Cloud Prices to Tackle the Enterprise
Amazon Web Service owns 70 percent of the $2.5 billion public cloud IaaS market, and its business is expected to nearly double this year – is there any hope left for the competition? The answer is yes. AWS was absolutely groundbreaking when it launched in 2006. Amazon’s killer combo of effective scaling and competitive rates ...
iOS Phablet is “Strong Possibility” as We Await Apple’s Next Big Thing
Rumors of an Apple phablet reached new heights last week, amidst a downward spiral for Apple stock, word that the iPhone maker is facing declining demand for its products. For a fickle consumer world accustomed to standard-setting devices from a company made famous by the visionary Steve Jobs, it’s easy to feel Apple owes us ...
Product Launches and Missed Guidance This Week in the Cloud
Since Monday two software firms introduced game changing products, and VMware, the top dog in virtualization, reported financial results together with its parent company EMC. On Monday, BitTorrent unveiled an experimental file sharing service in response to the launch of Mega, the spirited successor of Kim Dotcom’s now defunct Megaupload. Codenamed Sync, BitTorrent’s cloud locker ...
SAP Gains from Dell Launch, CRM Buy
German BI firm SAP is bolstering its CRM portfolio on the back of the industry’s growing interest in HANA. To start, Dell announced a series of data center solutions built specifically to run SAP’s in-memory database. The offering is based on Dell PowerEdge R910 rack-mount servers, and it’s available in configurations that offer anywhere from ...
This Week in #BigData: Security, Unified Analytics and Funding
The big data space has been teeming with activity this week. Several traditional vendors reinforced their commitment to this trend, and two smaller players grabbed headlines with important milestone announcements. For starters, Cisco revealed that it has acquired a Czech network security startup for an undisclosed amount. The Prague-based Cognitive develops behavioral software that analyzes ...