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What you missed in Big Data: A connected edge
The analytics ecosystem shifted its attention to the broadband industry last week after Verizon Communications Inc. unveiled a new managed platform aimed at enabling organizations to process the vast quantities of data generated by connected devices more easily. Making up for the carrier’s late entry into the fray is an impressive feature set that turns ...
What you missed in Cloud: It’s all about the network
Replicating the operational efficiency of the world’s top cloud providers became a much more reachable goal for the everyday enterprise last week after Akanda Inc. debuted a new iteration of its OpenStack network orchester offering to simplify the management of private clouds. The features introduced in the release aim to make it a better replacement ...
Details of Verizon’s new low-cost wireless IoT infrastructure
Connecting a smartphone or a tablet to the web is as simple as subscribing to a mobile broadband plan, but many of the newer categories of devices that are hitting the market don’t have the luxury of a built-in baseband chip to interface with carrier networks. That is leading manufacturers toward alternative wireless options in ...
IBM storage director lays out the Storwize value proposition | #oow15
Often overlooked in the discussion about the challenges of meeting an enterprise’s rapidly evolving storage requirements are the administrators who manage that capacity. Experienced staff is in short supply and turnaround rates can be high, which is one of the main factors that IBM Corp.’s Eric Stouffer cited in explaining the appeal of its mid-market ...
Cisco’s opportunity in the Internet of Things | #oow15
Out of all the players involved in the connected universe, perhaps no single company stands to gain as much as Cisco Systems Inc. with its massive networking footprint. The head of marketing for its converged infrastructure business, Jim McHugh, did the math in an interview on theCUBE this week: “85 percent of the world’s data touches ...
Analytics is shaking up the one percent | #IBMinsight
For the high-net-worth individuals served by The Rudin Group’s banking customers, the traditional annual meeting with their portfolio managers simply doesn’t cut it anymore. There is an now an expectation for a much more real-time and digital experience that is putting pressure on the wealth management segment to rework its decades-old consulting practices. “They need ...
How IBM helped ultracycling champion Dave Haase set a new American record | #IBMinsight
Among all the new objects that were hooked to the web this year as part of the rush to pervasive connectivity, one in particular stood out: endurance cycling champion Dave Haase, who IBM wired with sensors for the most recent Race Across America bicycle ultramarathon to show off the potential of its analytics technology. The ...
Alteryx scores a massive $85M to establish data blending dominance
The venture capital community’s appetite for analytics shows no sign of diminishing. Less than a week after chucking $37.5 million at a promising provider of cloud-based business intelligence for CIOs, investors are pouring more than double that into the coffers of Alteryx Inc. to help grow the adoption of its namesake data processing software. The ...
Cisco predicts Internet of Things will generate 500 zettabytes of traffic by 2019
If CIOs think that they have trouble dealing with the increase in unstructured information now, then they should wait until 2020 comes around. A new global traffic forecast from Cisco Systems Inc. that crossed the wire this morning predicts the amount of data coming off the connected universe will nearly quadruple over the next five ...
How South Africa’s oldest bank is making an ‘80s-vintage COBOL system work | #IBMinsight
Amid all the talk of analytics changing the way organizations operate and helping to uncover new business opportunities, one global financial institution is staying competitive with a more than 30-year-old database deployment. Jay Prag, the chief information officer of South Africa’s First National Bank (FNB), stopped by theCUBE this week to share the fascinating inside ...
