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European facilities management giant buys in to IBM Watson IoT
European facilities provider ISS A/S has signed an agreement with IBM to use the Watson IoT cognitive computing platform to change the way it manages more than 25,000 buildings worldwide. The $75 billion firm will use Watson to manage its buildings more efficiently and improve the experience of people working in them. It plans to ...
IBM adds cloud option to mobile app development platform
IBM has taken its MobileFirst development platform to the cloud. The toolset, which was previously available only on premise, can now be provisioned quickly in the IBM Bluemix cloud. IBM is positioning the offering as a mix-and-match option, with customers having the choice of where to develop and deploy their applications without compatibility concerns. “We ...
Hortonworks tightens Hadoop security, intros Spark-based notebook for data scientists
As Hadoop Summit opens today in San Jose, CA, Hortonworks Inc. has some new goodies for the 4,000-plus people who are expected to attend. Version 2.5 of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) boosts security with improved dynamic classification capabilities that can be managed by policies. Customers can use Apache Atlas to classify and assign metadata ...
Dropped Wi-Fi making you crazy? Startup says it’s got your back
It happens to everyone. You’re at a conference, struggling to get a Wi-Fi connection while people around you are surf happily. You can see the Wi-Fi access point 50 feet away but can’t connect. Or even worse, you can connect but can’t receive or send any data. The founders of Mist Systems Inc., a startup ...
Catalogic copy management adds Oracle, SQL, EMC Unity support
Catalogic Software Inc. has added support for Oracle and SQL databases to its ECX software-defined copy data management (CDM) platform, along with integration with EMC Unity flash and hybrid storage arrays and native support for Amazon Web Services (AWS). ECX 2.4 also deepens integration with the Puppet automation platform. Catalogic claims to reduce enterprise ...
MapR to help admins peer into dense Hadoop clusters
MapR Technologies Inc. is tackling Hadoop’s administrative complexity with the announcement today of a new campaign it calls the Spyglass Initiative. It’s also taking steps to make its own product updates simpler to manage. The company is making a long-term commitment to deliver a series of enhancements to its Converged Data Platform that provide improved ...
Freshdesk enters core CRM market targeting SMB sales pros
Over the past five years, Freshdesk Inc. has built a base of more than 80,000 paid and freemium customers – and a market capitalization of more than $500 million – with a focus on customer relationship management (CRM) software for support organizations. Now it’s going after the sales professionals who make up the bulk of ...
Red Hat earnings chug along; company to acquire maker of API management tools
Red Hat Inc. delivered no big surprises on its quarterly earnings call today, but indicated that growing adoption of its OpenStack and storage offerings could accelerate its growth rate in the future. The company met analysts’ fiscal fourth-quarter earnings expectations and slightly exceeded revenue forecasts on 18 percent year-over-year growth. Red Hat slightly reduced its ...
Fictiv adds ‘subtractive’ machining to its 3-D printing service
Fictiv Inc. is bringing 3D printing just a little bit closer to the mainstream. The San Francisco-based contract prototype manufacturing firm that specializes in additive technology (also called 3-D printing), is taking its service national and has added computer numerical control (CNC) production capability to its lineup. CNC is the subtractive technology similar to that ...
Datto updates its Siris backup appliance, adds all-flash version
Cloud backup and business continuity service Datto Inc. is overhauling its flagship Siris 3 platform and adding an all-flash appliance to its on-premise lineup. The Norwalk, CT-based company already claims to perform more than 1 million backups per day in its 200-petabyte private cloud. It’s known for a snapshot capability that enables data to be ...