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HPE intros dense new storage server for hyperscale giants
Like the traditional enterprise crowd, the world’s largest data center operators are consolidating the historically disparate components of their infrastructure in an effort to save space and simplify management. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving to capitalize on the trend this morning with the launch of a new hyperscale storage server that can pack as much ...
Report: IBM looking to offshore as much as 80 percent of services biz
The latest round of layoffs at IBM Corp.’s professional services business may be shaping up to be much smaller than it could have been, but the long-term outlook for employees is still bleak. The Register this morning leaked the contents of what is described as a confidential letter in which the company’s management discloses plans ...
Salesforce.com adds new security functionality to safeguard customer data
Achieving a balance between security and convenience in a mission-critical business application was difficult even before employees started using their mobile devices to take work outside the office. Salesforce.com Inc. wants to ease the task for the providers and large enterprises that run custom services on its CRM service with a new authorization mechanism that is rolling this morning ...
What you missed in Big Data: Ensuring transparency
For all the hype, even the most sophisticated machine learning algorithm still can’t fully match a human’s decision-making capability, a fact that is perhaps most evident in the world of online marketing. Promotions distributed through automated services like Google AdWords often end up on sites that don’t attract members of the target audience, an issue Pathmatics Inc. ...
What you missed in Cloud: It’s all about automation
Like the rest of the software industry, development automation providers have also been moving their offerings to the public cloud in recent years. Shippable Inc. hopes to set its service apart from the growing crowd with a set of new capabilities that rolled out last week to help streamline large application projects running outside the ...
10,000 IBMers reportedly set to lose their jobs as restructuring begins
The massive restructuring effort that IBM Corp. insiders warned about a few weeks now appears to be underway. Lee Conrad, the head of an independent union serving the company’s U.S. workforce, first sounded the alarms earlier this week after he started receiving emails from a large number of employees claiming to have been given their termination ...
Docker buys ex-Googlers’ startup to automate large-scale container clusters
Docker Inc. is moving towards closing the functionality gap between containers and traditional virtualization software one strategic acquisition at the time. The latest addition to its arsenal is Conductant Inc., a low-key startup that was founded by a group of Google Inc. and Twitter Inc. veterans to help organizations automate the management of their large-scale ...
SugarCRM moves to counter Salesforce.com’s analytics push
Marketing automation providers are adding more and more analytics functionality to their solutions as a response to salespeople’s’ increasing reliance on customer data in deal-making. SugarCRM Inc. joined the arms race this week with the purchase of Contastic Inc., a startup that uses natural language processing technology to help foster better relationships with clients. The ...
LinkedIn open-sources its internal data collaboration platform
As if analyzing unstructured data wasn’t already difficult enough, organizations must also keep track of where their records came from and how they’ve been modified due to various logistical reasons. To preserve the necessary context about the hundreds of terabytes of information it’s ingesting every week, LinkedIn Inc. has created a custom auditing platform that it’s ...
Syncsort targets mainframe data with enhanced Hadoop ETL tool
Hadoop could be displacing legacy analytics infrastructure at an even faster rate than it does now if not for the difficulty of importing information from outmoded data management systems. As a rule of thumb, the older the platform, the more time-consuming the chore becomes. Syncsort Inc. wants to clear the bottleneck for organizations that still ...
