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Spending on cloud IT infrastructure rises 8.1 percent in third quarter
Cloud IT infrastructure revenues are on the rise, with sales from servers, storage and Ethernet switches growing by 8.1 percent in the third quarter of 2016 from a year ago as sales of most traditional hardware plummeted. In International Data Corp.’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, the analyst firm said that vendor revenues from sales ...
Hortonworks hires Raj Verma as its new president and sales chief
Hortonworks Inc. is refreshing its sales team with the appointment of industry veteran Rajnish Verma as its new president and chief operating officer. The new president, who was previously COO of enterprise software company TIBCO Software Inc., will be tasked with advancing Hortonworks’ global sales strategy and execution, and will oversee sales, sales engineering, channel, ...
Concerned about security, Commerce Department urges creation of IoT strategy
The United States government needs to formulate a national strategy for the Internet of Things to guide global standards and determine the best use of radio spectrum and other infrastructure assets. That’s the chief finding of a new report from the Commerce Department published Jan. 12. The report by Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration notes that ...
IBM announces all-flash storage arrays for cloud, machine learning jobs
IBM Corp. has updated its storage array line up with all-flash versions that offer increased capacities and support for cognitive and other demanding workloads. IBM announced the original DS8880 storage arrays last year, with a choice of three systems, each of which now has an all-flash variant. The company said in a release the new ...
The Trump effect: Political uncertainty trims Gartner’s 2017 IT spending forecast
Gartner Inc. is blaming political uncertainty for a rather modest forecast of 2.7 percent growth in global information technology spending this year. The research firm’s latest Worldwide IT Spending Forecast, which predicts spending of $3.46 trillion in 2017, says the growth will be driven by cloud infrastructure spending and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and ...
Arcadia Data brings visual analytics to Cloudera Enterprise
Arcadia Data Inc. is making it easier for users to extract business insights from Hadoop and other big data platforms in a new team-up Cloudera Inc. The company said Wednesday that it’s integrating its Arcadia Enterprise visual analytics software with Cloudera Enterprise to create what it calls a real-time, Hadoop-native analytics platform. The idea here is to simplify ...
Workday stock soars as it lands Wal-Mart in its biggest deal yet
Enterprise software company Workday Inc. saw its shares jump by almost 10 percent on Wednesday after it was revealed that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had signed a subscription to use its human resources platform. Trading in Workday’s stock was briefly halted on the New York Stock Exchange pending the release of material news after it rose ...
Report: Microsoft Teams to surpass Slack within two years
A new survey on business chat apps from information technology network tools provider Spiceworks Inc. reckons the number of Microsoft Teams users will surpass that of Slack within just two years. Considering Teams has been available to Office 365 Enterprise customers only since November, that would be no mean feat. Spiceworks’ survey found that Microsoft’s Skype ...
Robocop startup Knightscope launches $20M crowdfunding campaign
Knightscope Inc., which builds security robots that are already out on patrol in malls and hospitals in the Silicon Valley area, is launching a crowdsourced “mini-IPO” in which it aims to raise $20 million in funding. The Mountain View, California-based company is using the Seedinvest platform to launch its campaign, after having previously raised $14.76M ...
Application container market to hit $2.7B by 2020, report says
The application container market is on the verge of taking off, with one analyst firm predicting it will grow to $2.7 billion by 2020. If that happens, it would see the market size more than quadruple in size from $762 million in 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate of 40 percent, according to 451 Research ...